oh, the coaches hearsay, women's footballing cutter is still at work in progress, but believe the country is heading in the right direction. yeah, i didn't really know what to expect and i've never really been out here before. and but when i arrived and i saw the girls play and that was already a lot book since me coming in and the programs that we've been running, we've like triple the amount of numbers since to start. so that can only keep growing and grow and, and it's a positive impact that we can make on the future. go hope all is governing by you see if i says at 160000000 women across the globe playing the game by 2020 sakes. now that's a double the number that we're involved in football less than a decade ago. danish international nadia nadeem is an ambassador for the cats are 2020 of world cup. born in afghanistan, her family fled to denmark after her father was executed by the taliban. 2 decades ago, football was always my savior. i would say it has fault me. everything that i know and it kinda integrated me. the society were quick,

it helped me to learn the language called danish friends. understand the, you know, the differences. similarities of these 2 cultures called there are very different. i want to be good at this training session in doha football has brought together girls from at least 30 different countries. i was born in manchester and football. it's a big part of the local culture. was it allowed me to be like sort of free on the pitch. it also discipline teaches me discipline to keep going and get back up again . generation of footballers out to prove that inclusivity is of reality. not a distant target far is small al jazeera doha ah, that lies on al jazeera chinese president. ching ping has secured an unprecedented 3rd term as the comedies parties general secretary and announced the 6 members of

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that's nearly one person a month for the next 2 years. is we going to fund? we take a closer look at the criminal legal structure in the us. we ask why the death penalty is still illegal and explore the flaws in the system that lead to thousands of wrongful conviction. the, with 2400 people on death row and execution up in the last year. the debate whether the death penalty should still exist in the united states in the 21st century is back in the spotlight. supporters of the death penalty argue that it is the only way to deliver justice against those who commit the most heinous crimes and can be carried out in a humane way. opponents say that it is unfairly applied and that it cannot be carried out without violating the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. so can the death penalty ever be justified? and is there really a way to execute someone in a humane way? joining us to discuss this is sister helen, pre john anti death penalty activists,

catholic nun and spiritual advisor to those on death row. she's the author of the book's dead man walking the death of innocence and river of fire. sister helen, thank you so much for joining us on. upfront 11 people have been executed in the united states so far in the year 2022 this year was at least another 8 scheduled to die before the end of the year. you spent more than 3 decades counseling people sentence to die. you've accompany people to their executions and your view, what determines who is to death by our criminal legal system. when you look at and look at the deaths in 2021, it's solely up to a prosecutor to an attorney general or even to the president the united states. that's what basically fundamentally broken in the way the supreme court set up the death penalty in the greg decision in 1976. they said we're going to set the

criteria to kill people that the government can take their lives. that it's the worst of the worst murder, which has been impossible to know, who knows the difference between a quote, ordinary murder and the worst of the worst. and it was coupled with complete discretionary power to prosecutors to see death from square one. so when any crime is committed, when any murder a prosecutor is never has to seek death and then along the way during the appeals, it is up to them to see it through and to see that the person dies. it's a fundamental flaw in the way the supreme court said the death penalty and that when we look now, most of the united states is shut down. the death penalty my own state, louisiana, that in the eighty's killed 8 people in 8 and a half weeks had had an execution in 20 years. we're shutting it down,

but there are pockets where we see killings like in texas because the discretion is up to the prosecutor. and then when you, when you look in those states where there's louisiana, texas, mississippi, alabama. it's not just the state, it's who in those states is being executed. it's whose death is being a green lit up through the discretion of the prosecutors. i'm thinking specifically about poor people and things specifically about black and brown population. this isn't a universal death. tony crisis seems to be one of particular populations. why i mean, the legacy of slavery is with us. it's written in every institution. we have more, but definitely in the criminal justice system. and when you look at the over 1500 people have been executed in this country, a doubt, a very 10 of whom were killed because of the killing of a white person. a victim has to have some status in society and it plays out in

race, big time, and black on black murder hardly gives a blimp on the, on the prosecutors radar screen. because race matters who you care about and whose death you care about matters in this country, most people will never actually witness an execution in their own life with their own eyes. executions are carried out quietly. there's little information about the process itself that's made public. some states limit the number of witnesses that can be present at executions. and even they are typically shielded from a large part of the lethal injection process with an actual curtain that they put up to prevent people from seeing it. but what can you, you've been there? what can you tell us about what is like a company, someone to their death torture in the united nations convention against torture is defined as a mental or physical assault on someone rendered defenseless. and that's

a really big thing about when you're going to be executed that and imagine these are human beings, imaginative con. you anticipate dying, you die in your dreams and nightmares, a 1000 times before you try, cuz you anticipate it. there is no way the killing of conscious imaginative human beings can ever be humane. yes, i've been there. i've been there with 6 human beings have been kill. about 3 electrocuted and 3 lethal injection. lethal injection is every bit as terrible as electrocution because they're the supreme court allowing states to experiment with ways to kill people. oklahoma right now with the people they are blind up, one is richard glosser. he said 3 last meals and almost killed 3. tom snatched away from death. that too is torture. there is no way you can say you're

doing this humanely. my big thing and being with human beings who were killed in front of my eyes, was to tell them, look at my face. you have a dignity, no one can take from you. i will be there face of dignity and love for you. look at me when they do this, but mark, it's such a helpless feel and there's nothing you could do. so that's why i'm a voice out there and it appears that part of why so much of this is shrouded in mystery, is so that people can't see the brutality of it. they can't see the torch. absolutely, because they are proposed to the depth of who would say, well, the reason is not torture is because this can be carried out humanely. they say that a person being executed does not need to endure needless pain and suffering while being killed. now again, you've been an execution witness for 3 the decades. you are very familiar, intimately familiar with the u. s. execution process. is there a humane way to execute somebody? absolutely not. it's always going to be torture. and i gotta tell you more. this

was the talking point i had in my dialogue with the catholic church, specifically with pope john paul, the 2nd who came before frank pope francis. then i took him there. i said, when i'm walking with amanda execution, any shackled hand and foot surrounded by 6 guards, who can walk 30 steps, be strapped down to be killed. any whispers to me, please pray. god, hold my legs. where is there any in viable dignity to the human person? being rendered defenceless and kill, it was a telling point i was part of a discussion on what the only one that influence the catholic church. but when pope francis and 2018 changed the teaching of the church about the death penalty, it was precisely the point of the vital, the dignity of all life, even those guilty of crimes. and we can never entrust over the government that

right to think they have the wisdom to be able to decide who should dot, which now aligns the catholic church. right with the united nations universal declaration of human rights. article 3. d. an alien bull. right to life of every human person because they are a human person, you can never take their life for me. that is political rhetoric spinning that or yeah, it's the only just punishment. look at with the victims of saw that's completed a park or see about victims. they're going to wait 17 years on average to watch a person be killed in front of their eyes and that supposed to bring them peace. that's political rhetoric that's not to reality. 90 out of $27.00 death penalties faith, have secrets the statutes on the books, and many concealed the sources of their lethal injection drugs. most states prevent witnesses from viewing at least some part of the execution. how is the secrecy

legal? how can you have an accountability it, can you have any accountability? in fact, if everything is so opaque, that is by design, that it secret. there have been at least 2 court cases, tried to make executions, public, and they have all been defeated. the, the basic secrecy is it's done behind prison walls with only a few witnesses. they keep the curtain drawn, my poor don't be jealous. williams, he had an i q a 653 years after he was executed, the supreme court decided in atkins. you can't kill mentally challenged people, you know, fine, it came too late to adobe, but they couldn't find the vein. he was scared a needle to couldn't be when i was on the other side of that curtain and it was taking too long. they kept waiting, waiting. they tried to find it in one arm. okay. they got they even have it. that's

going to have been to science because they don't want to glitch. they couldn't find it. in the 2nd arm, they tried his leg, then they finally put the needle in his neck. and finally then, and it took about what 2530 minutes poor don't be there on the table waiting to be killed. so we got to bring it close to the people, we have to bring it to the p. and that's what my next worker's going to be about. how we, the people are shutting down the deaf education, education, education, let the witnesses been there, get out there during the 2020 election. president biden promised that if elected, he would quote, work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level and incentivized states to follow the federal government example. amnesty international points out that other than a moratorium of federal executions his administration has then very little to make good on this pledge. given that most executions are carried out in republican state

than that any significant public policy changes would need to happen through passage from congress. what concrete steps should buy and take to have some progress on these on these promises. let's come back some slack because he's handling a lot of things. he absolutely, i believe is going to save life. do you know this was the 1st presidential election we've ever had where a president came out against the death penalty, even though mama didn't come out again to death. and he said there are some cases which are so terrible that you have to allow for the definitely want to allow that your laundry everything. and so he's got to take it step by step. i believe it's going to do the right thing. but he's got to do it. there are 2 actions got to happen, federal level, and the state level. we got to work at the state level with the people. but i do believe that the president that in the end will do the right thing and the right

thing would be before he leaves office to commute all the senses on death row, that people will not be able to be put to death. well, we will certainly see if that happens system and thank you so much for joining us. thank you. great jim. from the death penalty, we turn now to another issue affecting our legal system. false convictions, that conversation coming up next on upfront. ah, innocent until proven guilty. it's a fundamental tenant of the u. s. judicial system and it's the backbone of the criminal process. however, at least 5 percent of the car, so population is wrongfully convicted. that means that about one in every 20 judgements put an innocent person behind bars more often than not. it's a person of color. there is now some recourse within the system, but exonerations are lengthy, complicated, and legal resources are not easily accessible. so what does this say about the u. s . criminal justice system?

joining us to discuss is advocate and author anthony hinton. anthony was released in 2015 after spending 28 years on death row. falsely convicted for robbery and double murder in 1985. he's now community educator at the equal justice initiative . anthony, thank you so much for joining us on up front. you were wrongly convicted for to capital murders in birmingham, alabama. almost 4 decades ago, police falsely identified you. they then searched your mother's house. they found your mother's revolver and linked you to the killings without any other physical evidence. as a result, you spent nearly 30 years in prison talk to me about the, the specific factors that you would say influence your arrest and your conviction. well, let me 1st say thank you for having me, but all the police officer did not fire a gun in my mother house. i am the one who told them that my mother only smith weston handler. and i told him,

because i knew that i hadn't committed the crime and now was brought up to always tell the truth. and that day i told the truth in little did i know that they would get to go on till the law like the gone match. and it would cost me almost my life in this system is a system. they treat you better if you're rich and you take a poll to report them. so adam, have the money to hi decent defense. and therefore the system, if you don't have the money, cannot convict you. but he can come back to more easily if you're born black in paw and when you have to rely on a state appointed turner, which i had to rely on. and so conviction was very easy for them to obtain incentives me to bear. knowing that i was in the suit, they didn't make an honest mistake. they did it on purpose. this system is work in

exactly the way it was designed to work. and it was designed to put me in the car behind the prison wall. for many people, they can wrap their minds around a mistake. they can even wrap their minds around police, believing that you're guilty and being a little overzealous in closing the case because they noted got the right guy. but in your case, you're saying they just made the stuff up, they lied and it's not just your case. we hear about false confessions. ah, we hear about government misconduct planted evidence, this kinds of stuff all the time. it's hard for many americans, though many people around the world to wrap their mind around the idea that these things are happening wilfully, that these aren't just hard working. police officers who sometimes make a mistake. well, you know, i can tell people that are coming to town. this system have been doing this from the 1800 to the 19 log back in 18. 1900. a white woman could say

a black man all looked to her wrong. he was charge. what a crown? no, lemme dish. aw, minimum will smidge no evidence. and so we still have this modern day linton, we just have a different saw. we're starting to see our reports coming out as people look into these exonerated cases. and we find the kind of flaws you're talking about now on a positive note, is that we're seeing more and more exonerations in recent years. ah, we had it in the right direction. we shouldn't we have to get to that point all been exonerated? i've been exonerated in heaven last green, all for all given one painting have not even been often an apology. all when i try and file for compensation for 30 years or my life. i'm told that since i was not found guilt about jewelry,

i am not eligible. ringback to receive anything. so once the charges are dropped and it's, it's been realized effectively that you spent 28 years in prison for something you didn't do and that the case against you was manufactured. what does the state say to you do? do they said they didn't the power that they say anything they haven't said anything from i'm will be honest with you know, be able to to, i didn't hear him say these words, what i was told, tell them will be glad that we just in execute and they asked to handle that just be glad we didn't execute him in him being the inward, they used a legit, allegedly that that is a, a that, that's a, that, that's an incredibly i mean, i don't even with the same, it's overwhelming and that's the end of the journey, i want you to take me a step back though to talk to me about the fight to, to get the conviction overturned. all it took brash teams in the it would just finished it 16 years to finally get a court united states supreme court ruling mar,

upgrade, where they granted me a new trap and goes back to birmingham. the state of alabama cosy and is a young or it is with great sadness that we inform you that we lost to go home. and so while we thought man was looking for the going into boots, which they trained me all, all they ex model of the old expert to come in and re examine the bulus and the go . the same man is sad and max started years ago. 30 years later says the gone that mashed away at the in the for, wow, as you mentioned, you didn't receive any money. you didn't receive any reparations. after your conviction was overturned by the supreme court. despite the fact that in alabama states senate proposal,

i was supposed to give you $1500000.00 of compensation for wrongful conviction as possible. but it's, it's not uniform. it varies from state to state. not to mention the process can be fraught with complications as exonerate, trying to access the, the money that they're do. how is it that somebody can be falsely convicted? it's been decades in prison and still has to go through so many hurdles just to get restitution. oh izzy, i will do to reason live in the state of alabama and be black. that's the to do now. you know, i saw quote for 30 years been in solitary confinement. all i will know will make it, you know, this chairman say that i'm 3. i'm just release ashley. busy go through. busy all the all feelings in motion. oh williams, there's another execution i haven't been offered to see a psycho psychology or they just opened the door and say, hey,

all try to leave the best life you can. but we mackerel helped you one way another . i sit on death, row, 20 years out witness to for me being executed. i have to remind myself that i was so close to the, i mean it is a trauma to what you're describing, sir, that it would sound like you need therapy. you need some kind of response to post traumatic stress from being in, in that kind of, in the kind of that kind of context for so long. so so when i think about bet and 1500000 and i'm, i'm sticking there just for a 2nd because i want to understand what you need there for. this isn't like you trying to make a pay the same. i hit in the lottery last 30 years. what? what does that money necessary for? is that more than necessary for me to get out and sign a decent doctor? there can treat me and perhaps help me or it oddly for i don't have all

money tied up in his so security i was didn't put anything in his so security for 30 year or so there for why haven't that can comment out all i needed all to live on because he had some one that been on there for, for 30 years, have no computer experience tail, nothing. and most people, there's afraid of you because you've been locked up. lack of a caged animal. this system is, was design associated to put mans of call and we will help people to believe that we dealing with mass incarceration. we not dealing with national concentration. we are dealing with a new formal slate. there was a study by the american psychological association. this year, i found that 80 percent of exonerated people experienced at least one serious traumatic event. while incarcerated in more than half of their group showed significant signs of p t. s. d. what should people know about the trauma

that's experienced by people who are wrongly convicted, imprison a people, sit no there. when we could innocent means when women are special and therefore all at trauma is there. well, because we don't have the money to go out in the c k, qualify at all psychiatry or to trying least get us back. all the right roll at some point it goes, hits you and you will all just cry like a baby. little scream, michael, or so long as chasing you. and so no one knows when i go to return. there was an execution in the state while about all i knew exactly what it in made is going to revenue exactly what has taken place because i was there for 30 years on this is something you can't turn off and turn all i do when it is best and i can and i

will more than in the same if the state of alabama gave me a 1000000 and a half dollars. it wouldn't come close to trying to make me whole. oh, it is just a shame that we have a balcony in this country and means women goals to death role and stay for decade and allow a stay sag. you're free to go and se they'll, you know, reparation. no, nothing. and the act is daunting. giving you something and they act as though we do in your favor. we didn't execute that. you should be thankful that she should go home will be quiet. and yes, do i think that at any time they can knock on the door and say, i did something else, they did it one time i'm out again. and so all of that play was in my mind on every now, every day, all of these plays in you psychologically called a would they be,

it could be before. and so people see me, they ca, hampton looking man, but they don't see the scores in the middle to the. all they did is in south me, i have to be there, no one else. then thank you for your work and i wish you luck. i hope you get just this and i hope you get everything that you deserve from state of alabama. thank you so much for joining us and up front. thank you for having that is our show up front will be back next. ah we tell the untold story. oh, we speak when others stand. ah, we cover all sides no matter where it takes us. a pretty flee, a fan,

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