coming up well the outreach of support from people like president jimmy carter archbishop desmond tutu and even the pope say the georgia inmate from dying for a crime he may not have or that it. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who made decisions through get through to be made who can you trust no one who is you know view with a global mission who would see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question morning. is the state of georgia on the verge of executing an innocent man on september twenty first troy anthony davis will be put to death by lethal injection for shooting and killing a police officer back in one thousand nine hundred nine at the time there was no hard evidence tying davis to the murder no forensic evidence no videotape no murder weapon nothing but there were nine eye witnesses who testified in the trial and they all implicated davis. however today seven of those nine witnesses have recanted their testimony and ten new witnesses have come forward pointing the finger at another man for

the pope, archbishop desmond tutu, former president jimmy carter and more than 50 members ever congressded their voices to calls for mercy, because of questions about the evidence in the case. now, if clemency is denied, troy davis is set to be executed by lethal injection on wednesday. our david mattingly is outside the parole board meeting in atlanta. david, first of all, there's a lot of attention that's being paid to this particular case. we know that time is running out here. seven of nine witnesses have recanted their testimony against davis, but he's never won any appeals. do you think that clemency is even likely? >> reporter: well, this is an extraordinary case, and what his supporter, looking at is the fact that even though he was denied clemency back in 2008 by this very same board, there are now three new board members sitting there hearing this case for the first time. so they're hoping that the presentation of their arguments regarding what they say is a lack of evidence and the people who recanted their testimony, they're hoping that fresh ears and fresh eyes looking at t