>> reporter: that's right. as you mentioned, that parole board handing down the decision to allow the decision to stand and deny the decision of february. they reconsidered it today. but they are letting that decision stand so she is still scheduled to be executed here at this prison in jackson, georgia, at 7:00 tonight. but as you mentioned, it was a dramatic day at the parole hearing. pope francis, atlanta archbishop, the archbishop of atlanta wrote a letter on behalf of pope francis asking the parole board to commute her sentence and to perhaps issue in the letters words a sentence of more justice and mercy. however, parole board decided not to follow that. also, and three grown children, her three children testified in that hearing saying she is a