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"48 Hours" explores dad's fight to get son off death row

A Texas man facing the death penalty found an unlikely supporter fighting to save his life: one of the people he wanted killed. Bart Whitaker was convicted of hiring a hit man to target his own family. His mother and brother were murdered, and his father was seriously hurt. A jury found Whitaker guilty in 2007 of arranging the plot, and he was sentenced to death. His father, Kent, forgave his son and fought for years to get Bart off death row. Peter Van Sant joins "CBS This Morning" to preview his report for this week's "48 Hours."
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