Maurice Chamas

But we were also more than an hour in, and everyone was still talking.

So that was something.

After the interview, the lawyers parked nearby to debrief.

They weren't exactly convinced that Marsha had a change of heart.

But they detected what I thought I witnessed, too.

A tiny seed of doubt.

A little crack in Marsha's certainty that wasn't there before.

Though it's a little unclear what that's worth at the end of the day.

Back in 2009, when David Wood was first scheduled for an execution, Marcia says the prosecutors reached out, that she used money from the Victim's Compensation Fund for a flight and a hotel.

This time around, nobody from the prosecution even bothered to notify her.

She only learned about the new execution date three weeks ago from a local reporter.

There was even a surreal moment in the interview when Marcia asked Naomi and Greg if they could help her navigate the bureaucracy to witness their client's execution.

Regardless of how central a role Marsha played in putting David Wood on death row, it wasn't altogether clear how she fit into the picture now.

Whether turning her to their side would have made much of a difference.

It was entirely possible that the lawyers put in all that time and effort just to leave Marsha with a nagging feeling that maybe she'd be helping to send an innocent man to death, even though she might be powerless to do anything about it now.

It's hard to feel good about that as an outcome.

But I'm struggling to think of what the lawyers should have done differently.

Greg and Naomi had to try.

Because maybe if they didn't, they'd be the ones left with the nagging feeling.

That they stopped just short of doing everything in their power to save their client's life.