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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110919:22:48:00

just two days before his scheduled execution, davis was found guilty in 1989 for the murder of police officer mark allen macphail. most of the eyewitnesses have incident recanted or changed their stories. troy s final appeal was today in a hearing before georgia s board of pardons and parole. outside the meetings, protesters gathered to call for clemency, adding their voices to a chorus that includes former president jimmy carter, the pope, 51 members of congress, 660,000 people who signed petitions demanding justice. this morning, the board heard from troy davis defense team about the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, the very thing that landed him on death row. the jury did not hear a great deal of the evidence that s been before the board, both presented today and that s been presented to them on paper.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110922:14:01:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110922:14:01:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110922:07:03:00

originally swore under oath, pointed and said that troy davis was the triggerman who shot and killed officer macphail as he tried to help a homeless man. the other side, the family, the macphail family says that this has been a long process. we have waited 22 years since he was killed. we are thirsty for justin, not bloodthirsty, but thirsty for justice at this point. we are waiting and anticipating that some of the media witnesses, and we are hoping that the macphail family will make some statements following this execution. what are the people outside the facility doing tonight? how are they responding to this? what are they doing now? you know, within the last hour, this crowd has been dead silent. throughout the night we have heard periodic hurrays and the cheers and the silence. so many people have been checking their devices, blackberries, iphones, so on and so forth.

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