unless a convicted cop killer troy davis is set to be executed davis was sentenced to death for the nine hundred eighty nine murder of savannah georgia police officer mark macphail one juror who convicted davis questions her decision he's also in cities in a set and there are a lot of disturbing new questions that have been raised in regards to his case. it was a rare case where a national conversation was actually being had about capital punishment and even the mainstream media had no trouble shedding light on the case or a man whose guilt could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt he was then put it that there was no physical evidence linking him to the scene just eyewitness accounts seven of which were recanted well before his execution date it's a horrible example of how our justice system operates and now sadly a part of our very tainted history of executions in this country now i'm glad they paid attention to troy davis' case it deserved every minute of attention that it got right up until the night that davis was put to death but it also made people ask if this could lead to mo

we have seen troy davis, tooky williams, we have seen black people executed by the state without a full-fledgednse. is this a different time? >> well, i think it is the potential to be as the mayor just indicated. the moment is luminous, but the movement has to be extended. it's based z on a couple of things. it's not just an isolated and extraordinary event. it's extraordinary in the sense that it was brought to our attention by means of trayvon martin, but there are so many other trayvon martins out there. >> you're part of the greater project. resurrecting the movement and tell us what you're doing there. >> we are understanding the genius of the civil rights movement was not just marching and sitting at lunch counters. we want the laws to be repealed, we want a greater sense of justice in our community and the second step of voter registration, we have to educate why we're going to the polls in november because stand your ground has been on the books for seven years unaddressed, unprotested and unchallenged. so now we are at a critical moment. >> the third thing about education i get that.

less than six months ago with troy davis you have people wearing the davis t-shirts and you don't havey. how can we create legitimate, substantive movement that comes out of the issues that are surrounding the trayvon piece? how can somebody be allowed to carry a gun when they have an assault against a police officer? all of these things that allowed the trayvon martin piece to happen are the pieces that i'm conaccepted about us dealing with as we're waiting for the trial to start. >> lola, for first two weeks, everything was on the same page about trayvon martin. we showed sympathy and then we returned to our normal lives again. suddenly, there was one side against the other. people were blaming trayvon. some people were beating up on zimmerman. what does it for us to have that kind of tension in the community? >> i don't want to say it's polarized the nation because i don't think it's that deep, but there are people who are pro zimmerman and there are people who are pro trayvon. those two between shall never meet. >> but the thing i can't get out of my mind is the fact that there is

. >> however, look at the trending topic that is happened around troy davis and leading up to his execution 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 where we may

well last summer the execution of troy davis called the american cause of the american criminal justice system to be the subject of intense scrutiny even ignoring the controversial issue of the death penalty supporters of davis claimed that there was significant doubt over his guilty conviction many argued the case was just one example of how an overzealous system allows the innocent to face punishment for crimes they didn't commit and we have covered other such stories like the case of carlos carlos de luna discussed here last week he was executed by texas in one thousand nine hundred nine but a recent seven hundred eighty page study by columbia law school said the man was innocent another reason study has laid out in great detail how the problem of wrongful convictions is deeply systemic thousands of prisoners have had a rony of convictions overturned since one thousand nine hundred nine according to the study the report was compiled by the national registry of exonerations a joint project between professors from the university of michigan law school and northwestern university it det

weren't guilty so you know it's reasonable we've killed a lot of it in light of this and with the troy davis execution still fresh in our minds isn't it time to stop state sanctioned murder and join the rest of the civilized world i mean we're right there with iran and saudi arabia and and my and mark in executing people my only problem with execution is that we don't do it cheap enough i wish we didn't have to spend so much money executing criminals who create who commit heinous acts i think he would feel very different if you've ever been arrested unjustly i can't say they have been arrested unjustly but. i'm against the death penalty i think the finale of it is one of the problems in one of the reasons it is so expensive and it's very expensive it takes a very long time for an execution to run its course because the due process is that obviously you need it but this is a situation here you know the innocence project barry scheck these are important programs that have come along and the science you know this is one of those areas that science can help us to know you know the worst thing in

the case of troy davis, who was finally executed, and a lot of witness witnesses recanted, he lost hisare not saying everyone convicted has been convicted wrongly. we are not even saying most. >> right. >> but the fact that any of this could happen like it happened with you, and thank god for people like professor gross that could turn that around. we don't need one person going to death row or spending 20 years in jail for something they didn't do. that's the human side of this, i think, people don't understand. >> i agree. i agree. here in california, in november, the voters will have an opportunity to do away with the death penalty. and replace that with life without the possibility of parole. for me, i think that although it is a nameless person, i don't know who he or she is, there has to be someone on death row who is innocent. i would prefer that that person has the opportunity to live out their lives and prove their innocence than to be executed. there are reports and the registry has proven that, that many people have not, not only exonerated, but executed that falsely. >> we

>> within the anti-death penalty movement, of which i'm a part, in the wake of the troy davis executionre were many of us that couldn't believe he would be executed, given how many times he had faced execution and the last-minute stays and because the proof of his innocence seemed so compelling and the wake of that and the cameroned to willingham's revelations and the carlos de luna case. and what are the limits of the strategy and how do you go beyond it. obviously it's shifted public opinion enormously. people who support the death penalty, there are those who would argue, well if we get one wrong every once in a while, it's still worth it. >> some say that, but as that argument begins to emerge as the argument for people get extremely uncomfortable on a moral level. and you see these coalitions emerging. with people of faith. you know, for good reason and the other side of the moral issue arises. but i think it's the, this is just terrible public policy. >> i want to ask you about the mechanics of the justice and why we are, our system gets it wrong after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ pop goes the wor