rights case and we are facing an international human rights scandal on tomorrow. joining me to talk about this is diane mattwits of the action center opposed to the execution of davis and investigative crime reporter michele segown. this is the first time in four years troy davis has been scheduled for execution for folks who haven t been following this case as closely, how do we get to this point? well, 22 years ago, davis was accused of killing officer macphail. he was working off-duty and actually saw a homeless man who had been pistol whipped. when he got there that s when troy davis was, in fact, convicted of killing officer macphail at the scene and there were some casings there that also linked to a shooting that had happened just a little while prior to that. but the problem is, is that a lot of this was based off eyewitness accounts and a lot of those eyewitnesses recanted what they had testified to many years later. and so without the actual
physical evidence at the scene, without other dna and things like that, you know, and only to have those eyewitnesses there and to have them say you know what, this really isn t the case, that s how we got to this point. this was the fourth time the parole board has heard his case. diane, your organization has been one of the organizations leading protests against davis execution. looks like at this point all possible options to stay his execution have been exhausted right now. what s next for your group? well, i believe that the struggle for justice never ends, and so, of course, the case of troy davis and troy has said it many times himself, that he wants all his supporters not to just be concerned about the facts of his case and the denial of justice in his case, but that we extend that activism to the many, many thousands of others that are incarcerated and facing death. so, i would say that we will continue the fight and as the
said that no prisoner would be executed in georgia, that with where there remained any doubt and clearly there is not just a shadow of a doubt with troy s case, there is mountains of doubt, in my opinion, this is a political decision. diane, thank you. decision not based on law. we have to leave it there. thank you. michele thank you as well. appreciate your time, ladies. we have some breaking news that we are following in afghanistan this afternoon. u.s. military officials confirm that former president rabbani has been killed by a suicide bomber. it happened in kabul today. the bomber apparently concealed an explosives in a turban. four of rabbani s bodyguards died in that blast. a presidential adviser was injured. we should be hearing some remarks about this from afghan president hamid karzai and president obama from their meeting at the united nations shortly. again, former president of afghanistan there killed. s&p 500 s&p downgraded
out their hope until they see this happen because there was another time where just an hour or two before the execution was set to take place that it did not happen. diane, davis has received lots of high-profile support from all over the world. the pope, former president jimmy carter as well. hundreds of thousands of folks signed petitions. why do you think that all of that in the end, why do you think all of that wasn t enough? let me say two things. first off, the millions of people that are watching this case are, in fact, not high-profile people. they are the people that are losing their jobs, losing their homes, you know, facing their own situations with the criminal justice system, regardless of whether it s banks who foreclose on them illegally, whether it s bosses that lay them off, et cetera. so the issue of why this decision came down from the board, when they previously had