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congress examines a new act tightening cyber terror a freedom that could become a license by the state. i'll be back with all the latest news in about thirty minutes time our special report. huntsville texas. the man who we are coming to see at the prison of when should have been dead a long time ago he was to be executed by lethal injection. a man sentenced to capital punishment more than twenty years ago for a crime which he has always denied. but. anyhow they get. rid of that work. that's the.

theory of thanks. time has flown by never did we think we would see him alive again. but. they were. one thousand years after our first encounter so many questions are left unanswered how did he stay alive has he changed we'll recognize each other. hello tell us more as you our listeners him thomas miller. thank you. for. thomas and his amazing smile

unchanged after so many years on death row the meeting is monitored closely next to us a warden and the man responsible for media in the prison we are being listened to. and are warned we are given precisely one hour to interview thomas our time is short and this. business isn't. so nice and be. quite a blessing in comparison to the situation that we're faced with. for at least twenty years i did you notice the fourteen. years. sometime we we sit and complain back and figure out exactly how that is that we persevere. in light of the tremendous remember emotional psychological pressure that goes along with. such an excuse. how

can one keep it together for twenty years while waiting for his execution thomas miller was thirty four when he ended up in prison is now sixty one. his life should have ended here in a death row cemetery much like more than four hundred other people over the past twenty years in texas. when we met him one thousand years ago he said that he only thought about one thing. the day of his death. the minute he would be executed. as this little. girl in the world would be do you want to work this. is. illegal

or just forward. when you came. in give your straight your face to this group which you seem to. follow or this go away if you want to. how is he survived since one thousand nine hundred ninety four. it was with these words that thomas miller expressed his fear of execution and also all the questions about his case nineteen years he waited on death row nineteen years claiming his innocence. or think you are right because this is where you're going with the. right. way to go to discovery the thrill of it. isn't a question so you know this because this is you know. all right let's consider a good. and we knew the way mr holton you know this if you have the record where

you are oh no it's defense that i'm going with. a black man accused of killing a white man. typical for texas. you're over for the. during that month of one thousand nine hundred four thomas miller was on the eve of his execution over it would go through were saying earlier . by. we were not to see each other again. mary. what was the incident that landed thomas miller on death row.

it was an enigmatic and complex case for which we need to go twenty six years back in time. in our investigation first leads us to the newspaper archives of the dallas library. a crime among many others but this one went far deeper. vague police reports manipulation and the supreme power of the judiciary system anchored in social discrimination. a merciless machine that hides its actions but which the miller case will trouble. little is known about what thomas miller is accused of in the middle of the night criminals broke into a holiday inn on the outskirts of dallas they were after the cash register the hold

up became a disaster. a young man died from numerous gunshot wounds he was the hotel receptionist. but what exactly happened on the night of november sixteenth one thousand nine hundred five one man may have an answer to this key question richard rayner is not just a detective a maverick. he also specializes in the counter investigations of death sentence cases. thanks to him that innocent inmates were freed after many years on death row . prison oh gosh i think he spent the better part of eleven years. right now they're free and free everything they did was wrong. but there they go they didn't have any representation at all when you know what there are solutions. there are

prosecutors there are police officers and. it's going to. problem is nobody hears very much of the truth. or justice they want to win you know they want to win this no matter what but this case it was incredible i made copies of every statement given by the. by the policeman. because certainly they had too many months were necessary to cambridge years trust and now he is willing to show his work on the miller case that name is very familiar. these or you convictions this is a bank robbery supposed. this is what all the witnesses are going to testify for you you have all of that for you if this unique evidence enabled richard to

form his own opinion. undermines the official version well. to argue that thomas was or was not debatable but to actually come up with who did the shooting we don't you know i can say without a doubt there is questions here you know who actually did the shooting. there were five people last night. four man and a woman armed and parks near the hotel according to the police report it was about two am when the group entered the hotel went to the reception desk and asked the two employees for the cast register. hotel clark douglas walker refused to comply he was shot dead at the age of twenty five. as young colleague. is the only witness of the crime thomas miller is pointed as being the murderer of the young receptionist based soley on his testimony. richard is not satisfied

with his official version at all only witness that you was in you have it here you know you this is irrefutable yeah this is you know he he clearly tells them that he counted in a fight he didn't see anyone he said i'm too tired i didn't see them. and the second time they show him a line. he can't be absolutely sure. in there towards the end. he describes the other guy and then he describes thomas in your when you have something like that. this story of the self contradicting president and only witness for the richard graner he now wants to

know about the arrest. think we're ok. five days after the crime it is in this quiet houston suburb but the police arrested thomas miller. this is the street where the shooting took place. actually the police were already waiting for thomas. at night when miller drove his car down a dead end the police ambushed him but they arrested him goes plant gunfire broke out. it is in front of this house that the shooting took place. this is ninety eight to fifty one. when he saw the police thomas miller

tried to escape. to try to get away through here. he was severely wounded by several gunshots he jumped on the core started running. and was shot. we do smoke and moves like this power. can be heard. somebody say you see the niggers going to make of beer if you're a big clue. actually to me i thought almost that it certainly looked to me like he was supposed to been to the end of the story. but tell us that no that he didn't expect to be. to be stabbed in the back by his friend. in fact thomas miller was denounced by his friend john hicks he confessed to the robbery

but associated miller with the murder of the young will tell clark. when you have a lot of people involved in a crime those that come to the prosecutor force and say i'll cooperate but i don't want to be charged with capital murder i don't want to go broke i will help you here is your shooter from the outset thomas miller tonight any involvement in the cry in the end john hicks only served a few years in prison while miller was sentenced to death in this case you have witnesses that you have a witness the survivor of this is you can identify him and you have somebody else that is saved my life and i'll tell you that thomas did it. when you have doubts. both the investigation and the arrest still raises many questions with the police

there is no doubt that thomas miller is guilty his punishment must be dead in march one nine hundred eighty six in dallas he was sentenced to capital punishment by an almost all white jury. the judge was bill hill a man no one for his discrimination against black people. one young lady wants to know everything about this twenty year old trial. is thomas miller's daughter was just a child when he was sentenced. this is the first time she has returned to the hotel where her father was brought almost dying after his arrest she was only seven years old member i was actually getting dressed for school and when i went into the role with my mom was she was about to call my here and she was like do you know who that

was that was on television. and she said that was her dad and at the time they were showing. the police department and i became really really sad and i was crying because i didn't want to go to school at that time. for years she didn't know anything about the case as her family had kept her away from the start story. to understand she asked us to show her the documents we have along with her husband bruce she hopes to find some you know that he is. going to see. these over just. kristi cool of this shooting. and. he said he believed. to be. that he believed to be the truth.

the first time i actually. i was fifteen at the time he was. still. in him an hour. visit like you know. you want to know what have i been. doing. all the. time. how did you feel it was the state's basic decision i would get a letter your dad is due to be executed next week we all had to go down there. business for two days straight when you know i drop. in. to see him in. bed is a very scary moment you can lose one of your parents with

a manner of me it's. the first. completely. traumatized. we were about. to write a letter to our daughter. in our life. you know when you're ready to write a minute you just said. you just write. and we start to right. away you know because. you know. this is the first appearance of thomas after numerous years of isolation shot by a spanish television crew in one thousand nine hundred ninety. s. it was forty. eight years. there

are more than four hundred inmates alone. in a four square metres a misstep through there are many black people many hispanic people and many people without lawyers they have nothing else to do but wait the more time goes by the more they drown in solitude time is never ending but death comes closer by the minute in the year one thousand nine hundred nine thomas is exhausted from waiting lists to give you execution a. place to. go before. you get to. execution date you. can't go get it to. court. believe me. just want to try the execution date for anybody to go through my life.

by security prison. is found in the middle of the texan countryside. this death row has the highest number of executions in the us an inmate waits for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time friends activist sundry no shortage has been alongside thomas. miller fighting against the death penalty and the horrors of waiting on death row on the shore of what we are under a road between parlance he prison where he so desperately and has a city where the execution room is there here is the last throes of it course and then still there it is their last chance to look outside and see nature and trees that are there and their last sense of smell and feel because they've been a solitary confinement for so long as are all put there in all the rest of the

crowd as i remember a man sentenced to death who said that at each breath he took his along the road to death he heard he's heard it louder and louder on this scale but the effect it was going to personally expose him. thomas miller has been down this path many times. we just start crying you're you know we're so good you see what do you know don't let us loose on. us. for around. february july and november of ninety four may august and october of ninety five january april and july ninety six february two thousand and two every day just another delay for miller death leaves ten times and then returns in comas this case is completely in human and and believe it or to have to go through this ten times in his life he's

a never ending torture and we are on team until his last days. delaying the execution that will take place behind these walls can happen the night before or even in the final few minutes. of bureaucratic error one last appeal by the lawyer or the mobilization of a few people may be enough to prevent this terrible end while the wardens and witnesses arrive at wal. the one who is to be executed is no longer a master of the passage of time only one man stays close to him so out of his last hours. i was a chaplain and i was with ninety five it was to be with them to listen to them to help them with their last letters to make telephone calls for them to escort in their visitors their family. or lawyers or anybody else

and to be there when they needed something big or small. whatever that would make them and i want to use word happy but that was what i wanted to. i was i stayed right with him all day. thirteen telephones in the room writing for one from the governor one from the attorney general on when there was some telephone rang i knew that which assigned to go. and i'd say it's time to go forward to unlock it and i would lead him into this to the best chamber stand right next to. a most them on me to hold their hands and i would hold that hand until they got

to pull over from where the execution it had put they bandaged them and then i would stand right five inches from their right way and i was my i put my lie and all the way you know those. cuts trade you know afterward it. thank you came we'd been maybe you know it was like oh oh one of thirty minutes or something like that right . you know this. is the point that had we had reached where is that we were happy you know to get it over with you know because we would have an opportunity to. confront to get out of this place you know we seem like it's really it's horrible to watch somebody that doesn't know what they're thinking as. he was one of the few that.

wrote to get prepared he was very cooperative and i think that he understood for women when he was there they want i'm not anti racist it can be you know with a thirty percent of the people who are if you did they are not white. exhausted in the polls after sixteen years in the death room pastor pickett left the prison administration and has chosen to fight it from the outside in a book he speaks of the atrocity of the system the racism and the execution of innocents because of these radical opinions he has been subject to threats and tax inquiries. the state of texas is not one to tolerate criticism of its ways and even if these executions do not help lower the crime rate these cowboys

care for their reputation. even proudly promote the death penalty in a museum dedicated to it in huntsville that prison if he saw nothing is missing from that motional movie describing life in prisons and the forced work of the inmates you they also specify that there is no air conditioning no intimacy in the cells no tourists are reassured that security is at its highest level and the number of prosecutions is increasing. my goodness if people come from far away to see it stole the molecular chair nicknamed old sparky it was discontinued in one thousand sixty four quite lethal injection has replaced it. oh yeah that's right you're going to variously and. that is things that fit.

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