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Into this case. to the staff, to the people about to take my life, may good to have mercy on your souls and may god bless your souls. that was it. >> did the macphail family have any kind of physical or verbal response? >> we couldn't see their faces. they were in the first row. we coiled not see how they reacteded to it. watching them, they never turned their heads or wavered the entire time and just stared at him through the glass as the execution was taking place. >> the execution was delayed four hours. do you know if he was strapped to the gurney the entire time? >> i have no idea. we wer...

Nbc news correspondent than joins me from outside the prison in jackson, georgia. >> ed, i can tell you just now that first van of witnesses pulled up, i believe right now, these are the immediate witnesses. they're coming up to the podium to talk about what they witnessed. >> let's listen to them at the podium right now. >> he wanted to talk to the macphail family and said that despite the situation you're in, he was not the one who did it. he said that he was not person pli li responsible for what happened that night, that he did not have a gun. he said to the family that was sorry for their...

Supreme court had rejected his final appeal. >> we saw two. the officer's brother, his name was william -- mark macphail jr. >> he maintained his innocence until the end? >> no. mark macphail leaned forward through the whole process. his uncle, william macphail, sat back and neither seemed to move at all. >> they spent the entire time just staring at troy davis, never turned their heads, never did anything but stare ahead. then, when it was over, as they were leaving, they hugged somebody and seemed to smile about it. the macphail family, at least, they seemed to get some sat faction from what...

when davis was arrested for the shooting death of an offduty savannah police officer named mark macphail, a husband, son and father of two who was providing security for the burger king when a fight broke out in the parking lot. officer macphail rushed to the scene to investigate, was shot and killed n two years later in 1991, troy davis was convicted for that murder based on eyewitness testimony but since davis' trial, seven of the nine witnesses against him either recanted or changed their testimony raising doubts that have gone global. we have the scene outside the supreme court t...

shootinging death of an off-duty savannah police officer name mark macphail, a husband, son and father of two who was providing security for the a burger king when a fight broke out in the parking lot. officer macphail rushed to the scene to investigate, was shot and killed n two years later in 1991, troy davis was convicted for that murder based on eyewitness testimony but since davis' trial, seven of the nine witnesses against him either recap theed or changed their testimony, raising doubts that have gone global. however, the d.a. in the case and the families -- the victim's famil...