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

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