the battleground is taking place right in one of the battlegrounds was last year in georgia where troy davis was executed and it really brought the debate of are we possibly executing innocent people based on the research you've done do you think that's happened you think innocent people have been executed i mean given the to sticks around d.n.a. and exonerations we believe that there have been individuals that have probably been executed in this country and of course internationally who have been innocent and what we found with the work around troy davis is that this country actually had the lowest approval rating for the death penalty since one thousand nine hundred seventy two and so in many ways i think our humanity is speaking to the fact that we're not. fix and our system isn't perfect and when you have an imperfect system do we really want to put life and death in the hands of something that's imperfect right or life and death of the hands of individual people but i mean i would argue that a nation that embraces the death penalty like we do that sort of violent mentality trickles down

country of course internationally who have been innocent and what we found with the work around troy davis is that this country actually have the lowest approval rating for the death penalty since one thousand nine hundred ninety two and so in many ways i think our humanity is speaking to the fact that we're not. and our system isn't perfect and when you have an imperfect system do we really want to put life and death in the hands of something that's imperfect right or life and death of the hands of individual people but i mean i would argue that a nation that embraces the death penalty like we do that sort of violent mentality trickles down and it leads to people pursuing vigilante justice which might have been something that later that was behind the trayvon martin case down in florida i mean do you see a connection there between violence at a government level in violence on a commute with just thirty seconds when you think about violence in general i think the reality is is right it's a part of a culture and when a society perpetuates violence through its systems then it does have an ef

so in that sense of the word, we need to move forward at this time, not to have another troy davis. >> it can happen like that. >> reporter: kirk bloods worth knows about wrongful conviction. he was released from death row after he was exonerated by dna. >> i don't want to see anybody executed. >> my daughter was murdered in 1998. >> reporter: vicky argues it could be driewl to -- cruel to crime victims. >> it puts them through hell. >> just because it takes a long time doesn't mean it isn't the right thing to do. >> reporter: scott shellen berger, among those fighting to keep it. until a legislative committee approves the lethal injection protocols. >> prosecutors need that one final option in seeking death in the most heinous of cases. >> reporter: those who want to repeal the death penalty say they are just one vote shy of getting that bill out of a senate committee to the full floor, where they say they have enough votes in both cham buyers to -- chambers to pass it. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> all right, derek, thank you. new jersey, new mexico and illinois recently a

not to have another troy davis. >> it can happen like that. >> reporter: kirk bloods worth knows about wrongful convictions. he was released from maryland's death row, after he was exonerated by dna. >> i don't want to see anyone executed. >> my daughter was murdered in 1998. >> reporter: vicky argues that it can be cruel to crime victims. >> it puts them through hell. no -- no better word. >> just because it takes a long time doesn't mean it innocent the right thing to do. >> scott shullen berger, among those fighting. >> prosecutors need that one final ultimate option of seeking death in the most heinous of cases. >> reporter: those who want to repeal the death penalty say they are just one vote shy of getting their bill out of a senate committee to the full floor, where they say they have enough votes in both chambers to pass their bill. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> derek, thank you. new jersey, new mexico and illinois, recently abolished the death penalty. the naacp is also pushing for a ban in connecticut in california this year. >>> also in annapolis, an oral cancer su

. >> however, look at the trending topic that is happened around troy davis and leading up to his executiongood. we use it to organize. if you look at occupy wall street. there are definitely issues that we rally around, and we do use twitter. >> is there a generation piece to this too? i've also heard that young people use facebook. older people use twitter. is that fairly accurate? >> i know my mom is on twitter and facebook, and the data -- the last data i've seen says you have a 60% jump in boomers who engage in social media. it was 20% last year. it's 32% now. folks are -- everybody is involved pretty much in social media these days. >> i'm glad you made this point because one of the concerns people have about digital media is that while it may get people engaged, it doesn't get them out of their house. many old school folks will say this digital technology is great, and people don't talk to each other anymore. they don't connect. does our community become fragmented because of this stuff? >> i think it makes us more collaborative. i think it allows us to all centralize in an area wher

embraces for a week or two and then forgets i think unfortunately that's what we saw in the case of troy davis suddenly the death penalty was being judged seen in a public light we saw the state of georgia put a man to death who was killed could not be proven without a reasonable doubt and we asked if that would bring about change but so far it hasn't let's not trayvon be just let's not let trayvon be just another name another black child's face becomes famous for all the wrong reasons realize that this goes on everywhere that there are journalists out there highlighting the injustices every day and they all deserve attention because the more that we know the more i hope we can change. time for a happier me r.t. correspondent christine and politico's david cat needs thanks for trying to guys appy friday happy friday and for some people a friday started last night like our own jenny churchill who went to the midnight showing of hunger games with her only live with her to our country take a look. the hunger games opened tweens teens and most of the valley actually headed out to rave theater at t

>> he should say something about trayvon and troy davis, oscar grant who was killed by a cop in oakland think what people don't get, when we elected a black president, we thought at the very least we backs. >> and you don't feel like he has had your backs? necessarily. >> i think he is maybe afraid of looking too black. but at the very least like in this sherrod situation, it look maybe a second for the that. >> it is a somebody sensitive for an executive when there is an ongoing investigation, but don't you feel like at least with this president, and this attorney general, that there will be -- that this issue will be addressed? >> you know. i have sort of been burned a little bit by obama with the race issue before. it's not that i think he's a bad guy, but i certainly think he has left the black community short. george w. bush and dick cheney put their fingers everywhere in america that they wanted to. and we thought that we would elect a black president who would use that bully pulpit in the same way, and he doesn't. >> oh, it hurts me. kamau bell stay right where you are, we're com