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thirty one says investigators say the plane wasn't sprayed accounting for these takeoff. right now it's one part two of our special report that tells the story of a man who's been on death row in the u.s. for twenty years that's next. the unofficial motto here is that we don't joke around in texas. this story into this and that and then. we was for it blew through some of the areas that we soon computers for a person paul would be. exposed to be executed even with the system works like this is the real country. all of these inmates know that death row is an impossible place to escape from. throughout the years thomas miller's hopes of his case being

revisited have faded away as seasons past he has seen many of his companions depart for the execution room a little to hold on to touring his way it's just letters and a few visits by a close friends or family who have also had to prepare for the execution style i hope that the situation won't happen again betty fast me i'll go how you're ready been confronted to an exam know that my friends who have been executed only ways want to take people they love from the trauma of looking at them and i. know. a few lawyers have tried to attack the texan system. jim marcus is one of them are and he made a one of a cane discovery. in his office of the law faculty of austin thomas miller case takes up a lot of space and eventually jim marcus entered this case almost by chance in one

thousand nine hundred four back then he was working for an organization of volunteer lawyers defending inmates with no means of their own wrote one there are five by the time case was over the file itself filled to all that's it was a huge file. because over the over time we just collect all. a lot of evidence mostly documenting racism and. for months jim marcus studied all the files from the one nine hundred eighty six case one stumbled upon something. that dallas county had a manual that instructed prosecutors to discriminate against potential jurors on the basis of race religion gender who were wearing what jim marcus discovered was staggering a discrimination handbook written at the end of the sixties and used by judges to

systematically exclude black members of the jury. basically it's based on stereotypes it's based on prejudices it says that. you know people who are from any minority group are going to empathize with the accused expresses a general distrust of women. and pretty clearly you know don't take us from. not only jews but also fact people those who don't wear ties were considered i'm d. conformists and were said to make bad jurors. they're looking for right hunters. to be the jurors. it is clearly stated that white hunters are always good jurors for the state these prosecutors and thomas this case . they were not following us but if you look at their notes it'll say black male

no tie ante for no tie his beard no tie no ties wearing jeans. so you can see that with the with the notes show is that they were exactly following this. the initials b m r for blackmail he's a black man and has a beard that's one who is left out. f. is for latino female here is a hispanic lady who did not make it through selection. these are a few of many handwritten annotations corresponding to potential jury members presenting themselves to the court or the defendant. to recall not to try it. was the hatred that was going to. be a process. in the bigotry. discrimination that was coming openly going on with the system.

that thomas miller's trial ten out of eleven black jurors were left out we met one of them. belief eales agreed to meet us at an airport lobby. twenty two years after the miller trial she seems almost surprised by our questions to live in a society that is full of discrimination you have to have a thick skin and so therefore that things bother me that way you know i don't take it personally if this is the traditional have you been asked to be. jurors or oh yes but go to the courts own as they call it a panel is. always rejected so you know this continuous. savage faced this is we can trust their act yes i don't know but the thing is that

yes i have been called to jury duty many times since then and i've never been selected to be part of a jury either my name is carol and i only testimonies of the ignored jurors overlapped. a movie near ten years ago by some young lawyers confirms this but also reassure sherry that her father was a victim of a truncated trial. so. i would ask him next them how did they feel and what were they feeling at the town when they could not. sit on the jury because they were black and i was there wrong but appeared to be close. people that i could. listen to the evidence. i think even when i die races will. go on for. similar to what happened in the miller case more than ninety percent of black jurors have been

left out from trials over the past forty years in dallas since. this is the whole were led by this man judge bill hill. how can one explain that such ways were left on punished. perhaps because the death penalty is a source of contention in the u.s. . we have officials here who are right wing politicians who do not value human life and use the death penalty to promote their political careers and promote their or their life and their lifestyle and all our politicians are elected course our governor of our state representatives our senators. our judges criminal court judges are district attorneys they're all elected and they like this they think it's good to be appear to be cuffed on crime

and the toughest on crime they think they can be as to have the death penalty and the support of death family. is the death penalty used as a means to profit bill hill now retired did not wish to comment on this. really focused on two issues both having to do with the fairness of his trial one was the racism the other one was that you know thomas was shot by the police when he was arrested with a with a bullet round of ammunition that explodes on impact so a bullet entered his abdomen and then exploded and shredded you know parts of his organs and so forth. and he was an intensive care for a long time and they basically moved him from the hospital the jail and tried him at the time of his trial he had lost you know fifty pounds he was you know out of it he was on medication he was not competent to be tried. very poor health and

incapable of attending a trial this confirms a document that we got ahold of. famous dr ari kiya of the following. mr thomas miller was not able to defend himself even if he could be present at the audience. any man presenting such depression pain and wounds wouldn't be able to endure such a stressful event even more so if the trial was a life or death decision. in two thousand and one thomas miller had been on death row for already fourteen years when his lawyer jim marcus finished his counter investigation which detailed the discrimination and irregular. artes of the trial. file was sent to the appeals court of texas. i know we had so much evidence there is no way that we can. and then we look they

struck us as accident for ever and ever and first two thousand and two. it was a sense of relief you know because like all our bureaus exhausted we have a very left a sub the supreme court and you know live in order afterwards larry. this is like you know. in the beginning of two thousand and two this was the last chance the u.s. supreme court in washington is the highest in the lamps it is the only one capable of revoking a state's made decision each year the supreme court's receives around one thousand mans from death row inmates and only two or three are accepted for thomas miller's defense a true race against death started so it was about it was less than a week before the execution and the supreme court. announced that it was here the

case that was a huge relief. convinced of there was discrimination during the trial the supreme court demanded put the death sentence be reexamined but the texan court did not see eye to eye with this decision and refused to admit the miller had been a victim of racist practice he was to be executed. texan justice supported by a strong conservative public opinion and by very active victim associations refuses all the examination of the case. i believe as we practice criminal justice in texas we do a better job of it than any other state in america. one we execute our convicted capital murder we have the highest execution rate in america we're not afraid to do it we do it well we tolerate a lot in texas you can be anything you want in this state but be prepared to pay

the consequences of your actions. and i think. that the rest of the country should take note of by all of that so in that respect i believe texas is the most progressive state in america. how can such confidence be understood when suspicions of judiciary errors increased in texas. and universities and for those who defend human rights the miller case has become a symbol. helper in this one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement and teaches history at dulles university. is not surprised by the ruthlessness of the texan authorities. and why do you think they want to kill the minorities so badly because the state is a hate for racist state that wants to kill poor and poor people and

people of color this is a hate state this is the region the south is still hateful the american criminal justice system is discriminatory this is a normal part of the american criminal justice system and this state is among the worst of the worst the high profile nature of his case. which has embarrassed correct fully this. cations to show the how wrong and terrible the state was in its prosecution of him the state will do all that it can it will make the extra effort to prove that the end result would be ok we couldn't kill him but we'll make sure he never gets out to think it would he would die in jail i don't think thomas nurul is ever going to see the light of day as a free man i hope that he would confronted with texan stubbornness and refusal to

recognize any mistake in the miller case the supreme court decided in june two thousand and five to reverse the decision in its report. notes to the selection of the jurors by race and concluded there is no doubt that the use of this temple can texas allows judges to discriminate. with six votes against three judges of the supreme court's order of a new trial. selected. cases during the sixty's seventy's and eighty's this daniel miller case goes all over the media for ever before how the state of texas been asked to revoke the death sentence was. yet with him in the matter. and when i went i threw it down there because the world we live in tell me that he had something to tell me so i once it is and i said down he come out was it always knowledge and he tell me that his case had been heard at the

supreme court and that they made a decision that they're going to retry his case that they were going to actually hear it the supreme court and at that point it was like the hyde had stuck to where ok. he has an opportunity to actually get off death row. texan justice hadn't said its last words the threat of execution returned. raised by the supreme court decision dallas county general attorney bill hill struck back. he refused to deny miller's guilt and warned that we will request the death penalty at the new trial. police one tourist somebody can convict and prosecutors want to win for some reason the truth goes out the window nobody gives

a damn about the truth they want to win. defense attorneys prosecutors they want to win. in order to win as the year two thousand and seven came to an end justice proposed a deal to thomas miller attorneys refer to it as an agreement but miller's friends and family saw it as a trap even the trial would take place again and he might end up sentenced to death or he could plead guilty and the sentence would be changed to life imprisonment in order not to die thomas miller had to accept to stop claiming the innocence which he had been defending for twenty years for his friends the choice was clear better to plead guilty event to be sentenced to death again thomas miller still wants to defend his innocence but richard the detective found the words to tear him from it if you want to represent yourself i told you that i would stay with. i would help you and i will do that but. be sure that there's only one thing that's going to

happen. you're going to go to trial you're going to be found guilty and you're going to be sentenced to give. that's going to. you're going to die but you are going to save his life thomas miller finally decided to give up defending his innocence despite all the unanswered questions despite all the efforts that were made to counter investigate and despite the real doubts about whether or not he is guilty thomas miller signed. on march nineteenth two thousand and eight he signed this document in which he pleads guilty and sees. his sentence changed to life imprisonment. he left death row forever and was transferred to this detention center where we met him nineteen years after our first encounter. with the goods.

we. they told us is teams attorneys that talked to us for about two weeks often a different sort of that we had from the people turning everything right. people who really had a sincere love and appreciation for us as a human being. and they are it was want most. to not go back to try ok when did you realize that this thread is. that. when they say we're a license. the judge said the real life sims and he shook our hands it was good luck. the rest of life. event court is something we begin to. is just pressure it begins to

rise off for us mentally and psychologically almost like physically that we need to repair around. him and it was almost like a medium term odds we told what really hit me in terms of pressure just began to just just look gradually you know leave him different was. the same term you know. because these were. for thomas miller and for all the inmates discriminated over the past few decades in texas hopes to have a face of one man. craig watkins is the new attorney general of dallas county he follows the much feared bill hill and he is the first black man to take on this job in texas. the trial which he witnessed on september nineteenth two thousand and eight was a landmark one man walking forward between all his lawyers had spent twenty five

years in prison for rape which he had always tonight finally also rise to by the attorney general d.n.a. tests proved his innocence and the judge then had to decide if he were to be freed or no it's. very. very hard. the pressure is. just. for. its. own form of. evil. thank

you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank her knee general watkins personally congratulated johnny lindsay and wished him good luck thank you also told him how to terminate he is to continue the fight against wrongful accusations. that. johnny lindsay is the. one thousand nine hundred ninety three to know only a few months and more than three hundred files have yet to be examined. mr watkins case serious consideration it's a great day for us and one no it's not for me a piece of common just system. and i hope that we can carry on this issue for i think it's easier to be in the fricken american to do this work but you know i don't know if it's going to be here. but from where i come from i i didn't have a choice but i had to do save many innocents in prison obviously yes

well you know that we're aware of has still we're how they exclude certain individuals from the jury because the race. in texas some years ago. early ninety's mid ninety's we decided to change how we. actually have people shouldn't juries but i think i want a long way to make sure that our juries are the first. to go even further because prosecutors and there's a culture and this is just a small moment in time and so at the end of the day i think people understand hopefully when i'm done. it will never become just a legal system that asks for forgiveness and gives freedom back to those who were wrongfully accused such as the image that sure reka holds onto she dreams of freedom for her father. since his sentence has been changed to life imprisonment

she can visit him every week she does not shy away from her one goal to give my dad . and said what lloyd's life maybe. there's no stopping point. there's no stopping point at all. to be truthful based upon the longs in the state of texas people are different we don't normally get out of prison you know you're just from the rest of life in prison ok. so if we get out you know it would be a blessing that we demand to be show that. a person who come from what you call the noise of modes you know going on behalf you know or actually some come from that

they're actually making a positive contribution to humanity so we're hoping that that will cause people to stop and look maybe execution is not the answer maybe it's something else that we could do was ask you know people in our to commit people as well you know him to some degree or another we're just hoping that we can be a positive estimate of how life can be some really example for humanity in general you know. that a good idea. is that. you take a soup and your girls the girls have become a force in order for us to do all that ok yes i think like the thomas miller was thirty four when he was sentenced is now sixty one. days. in theory it is possible to imagine a conditional release for good behavior and after more than twenty years spent in

jail. in reality is fate is still in the hands of the texan judiciary system. sure is the same i'm going to hear his music is a lot more what. my brother decision was a good looking young lady is appalling.

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