HAPPENING TODAY, AN ALABAMA
DEATH ROW INMATE WHO HAS DRAWN
NATIONAL ATTENTION AND
CELEBRITY SUPPORT IS SET TO BE
EXECUTED. NATHANIEL WOODS WAS
SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE
2004 SHOOTING AND KILLING OF
THREE BIRMINGHAM POLICE
OFFICERS. CBS 42 NEWS REPORTER
ARIANA GARZA JOINS US NOW LIVE
IN STUDIO 42 WITH DETAILS ON
THE CASE BEING MADE FOR AND
AGAINST HIM. ARIANA?
WOODS' LEGAL TEAM SENT AN
UPDATE EARLY THIS MORNING,
CLAIMING THAT TWO JURORS AND
THE FOREMAN WHO CONVICTED HIM
OF CAPITAL MURDER*DO NO*
WANT HIM EXECUTED. IN THE
MIDST OF THE OUTPOURING OF
CELEBRITY SUPPORT TO SAVE
WOODS FROM THE DEATH
PENALTY... ATTORNEY GENERAL
STEVE MARSHALL SENT A 10-PAGE
LETTER TO GOVERNOR KAY IVEY,
URGING HER "NOT TO GRANT A
REPRIEVE OF WOODS DEATH
SENTENCE."
KERRY SPENCER WAS ALSO CHARGED
IN THE SHOOTING DEATHS OF THE
THREE BIRMINGHAM POLICE
OFFICERS. THOSE OFFICERS WHO
DIED WERE CARLOS OWEN, HARLEY
CHISHOLM AND CHARLES BENNET.
THEY WERE KILLED WHILE TRYING
TO SERVE A WARRANT FOR WOODS
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH C-N-N,
SPENCER DEFENDED WOODS AND
ALLEGED POLICE MISCONDUCT. HE
ALSO TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THE SHOOTING.
you are saying that you are
totally responsible for the
murders of those police
officers for the shootings?
Yes, yes I am, I am the only
one that shot somebody that
day and nathaniel woods is
completely innocent,
absolutely, he did not know I
was going to shoot anybody.
MULTIPLE CELEBRITIES ARE
BRINGING ATTENTION TO WOODS'
APPEAL, INCLUDING MARTIN
LUTHER KING THE THIRD, RAPPER
AND ACTOR T.I., KIM KARDASHIAN
AND BART STARR JR. ATTORNEY
GENERAL STEVE MARSHALL,
THOUGH, SENT A LETTER TO
GOVERNOR KAY IVEY ASKING HER
TO UPHOLD THE DEATH SENTENCE.
WOODS LATEST APPEAL WAS
DENIED. HE SCHEDULED FOR
EXECUTION BY LETHAL INJECTION
AT 6 P.M. TONIGHT AT HOLMAN
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN
ATMORE.
ARIANA -- THANK YOU -- AND CBS
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STORY VERY CLOSELY THROUGHOUT
THE DAY. IF THERE ARE ANY NEW
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