in october arthur davis, former congressman from alabama, former member of the black congressional caucus, wrote a commentary in the montgomery advertiser newspaper. he said i've changed my idea on foeter id laws. i think alabama had the right idea in passing one. when i was a congressman i took the path of least resistance on this subject for an african-american politician without any evidence to back it up i lapsed into the rhetoric of various partisans an activists. he goes on to say that for those who say there is no voter fraud, he saw it in his elections in alabama. he was approached by vote brokers who for the right amounts of money would manufacture the ballots needed in the polling place or through absentee ballots. in fact, he said some of the worst victims of voter fraud were, in fact, in the african-american community. i certainly saw that in a case that i wrote about of a federal prosecution of the mid 1990s in greene county, alabama where local commissioners and city councilman were stealing votes and winning elections by doing that. the people they were stealing votes from

in october, arthur davis, former congressman from alabama, a former member of the black congressional caucus, wrote a commentary in the amontgomery newspaper. he said i have changed my mind on voter i.d. laws. i think alabama did the right thing in passing one. i wish i had got it right when i was in political office. what i was a congressman i took the path of least resistance on this subject without any evidence to back it. i lapse into the rhetoric of various partisans and activists. he goes on to say that for those who say no voter fraud, he saw it in his elections in alabama. he was approached by a vote to brokers who for the right amounts of money would manufacture the ballots needed in the polling place or through absentee ballots. he said some of the worst victims of voter fraud were in fact in the african-american community. i saw that in the case i wrote about of a federal prosecution in the mid-1990's in greene county, alabama where unfortunately local commissioners and city councilmen were stealing votes and winning elections by doing that and the person -- the people they

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last year but unfortunately davis' case was far from the only questionable conviction and planned execution in this country so tonight let's take a look at the case of thomas arthur are others but on death row since one nine hundred eighty two convicted in the murder of choi weaker despite there being no physical evidence linking arthur to the murder no murder weapon that was found and the confession of another man to committing the crime arthur said to be executed on march twenty ninth of this here in alabama so once again there is a possibility that the convicted and is innocent and was perhaps most troubling in arthur's case is that a d.n.a. test on a wig worn by the killer which is defense has offered to pay for which could be completed before the execution date that's been refused by the forty's in the state so joining me to discuss this is radley balko senior writer and investigative reporter for the huffington post rather thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess if you could first just give us a little bit more background here as to this case because of course the wife is also involved the second man that confessed to the murder that allegedly was