no one cared that he was gay. a legal network for them estimates 14,000 were booted from the military because of don t ask, don t tell. authorities could decide whether a condemned man lives or dies. troy davis was convicted of murder in 1989. if the state does not intervene he will be put to death at 7:00 p.m. eastern. davis supporters say he is innocent and the officer s family says justice is overdue. both sides spoke before the parole board. no time is easy when you have to go before the pardons and parole board but feel like we got to say what we needed to say. they heard the truth which is the most important part. and i believe that they will probably favor in our favor. i would be petrified but troy, troy has an understanding of this is bigger than him. this is about a judicial system that may possibly need to change and get better so that this doesn t really happen. the board could commute his death sentence to life without parole or could deny clemency and
nations general assembly is underway. absolutely. because the streets are clogged. president obama and the new libyan leadershiping for face-to-face talks at the united nations and the stakes could note be higher. moammar gadhafi reportedly starving citizens. the president arrived in new york yesterday. front and center at the united nations. cnn senior correspondent, u.n. correspondent, i should say, richard roth joins us this morning. so this would be the first face-to-face meeting between president obama and the national transitional council? a good deferment for the obama administration, able to champion at that meeting and with the other diplomats, their way did work, although fighting remains. and helps solidify this new government in libya. the flag actually flew over the united nations monday for the first time, removing that green gadhafi flag. jaleel, of the national council, will be there and libya will have to set out what kind of government it will be. helpin
leader mustafa abdel-jalil. he is representing libya at the 65th u.n. general assembly. he has been meeting with president obama the last hour as well as ban ki moon. in a few minutes, president obama will sit down with afghan president happened karzai. this is their first meeting since the u.s. spelled out a plan to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. today, for the first time, gays and lesbians can openly serve in the united states military. the law known as don t ask, don t tell has been around for 18 years. it officially ended at midnight. since 1993, more than 14,000 servicemen and women were kicked out of the military after they were outed as gay. some want back in but it is not automatic. i have talked to people who wanted to go in and they started to make phone calls to recruiters and found out their set of circumstances wouldn t allow it. and there s let down. pentagon says 97% of the military has had training on the new rules which replace don t ask don t tell
13,000 gay troops were kicked out after their secrets leaked out and the taxpayers spent more than $100 million replacing them. today don t ask, don t tell is no more. repeal took effect at 12:01 a.m., nine months after signing the measure from the waining days of a lame duck congress. gays can now serve openly in every branch of service and all of those discharged service members can try to reenlist. key word, try. turns out repeal is one thing but reality is much different. more on that in our next segment moments from now. more than 22 years after former army ranger and offduty police officer was shot to death in savannah, georgia, the man convicted of killing him is once again set to die. the georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected the last ditch appeal for clemency. the state relied almost entirely on witness testimony and seven out of nine witnesses who implicated davis have since recanted or changed their stories. amnesty international is one of several group
since recanted or recounted their stories. they ve also pointed out that they ve had people come forward saying that someone else was responsible for this murder. all of that was before the board. everyone came back from that meeting with the board thinking that they got their point across, that the board was definitely listening, asking a lot of questions about this case. apparently, had they had done their homework and were very, very familiar with this case. so, both sides coming out thinking that they had made their case very strongly. of course, the people who had the last word before that board were the family members of the officer macphail who was murdered that night in 1989. they spoke to us after they had spoken to the board and they said that they wanted justice. they wanted to make sure that this execution went through. they have believed all along in the guilt of davis. contrary to what hundreds of thousands of other people have apparently believed. the hundreds