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but. anyhow to get. rid of yes. that's the. theory of thanks. time has flown by never did we think we would see him alive again. right. time. nineteen years after our first encounter so many questions are left unanswered how did he stay alive has he changed will recognize each other. hello tell us

last year how are you this is 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. is this is a. smash to be. quite a blessing in comparison to the situation that we're faced with. for the last twenty years how did you miss the fourteen. years. sometime we we sit and complain back and figure out exactly how the

a good person. can light up the tremendous in no way motion psychological pressure that goes along with. such an extent. 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 will be executed. this little. is going to want to be do we want to

this is. all that is. illegal it gets forwarded to. where you came. in give your straightly official disproves you which you realize he did. a lot of 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. forcing you or i will calls you and what will be the. right. way to going to miscarry through the shrill.

isn't a question so well because this is your. right i was consider a deal said to me live right next door to you know the seal of the record where you are right you know it's different and it's. a black man accused of killing a white man. typical for texas. the offer was for the. month of may one thousand nine hundred four thomas miller was on the eve of his execution. date or go through were they were up a lot of them before your third go. by. we were not deceived over again.

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 a g disagree system conquered 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 criminal's broken to a holiday inn on the outskirts of dallas they were after the cash register the holdup 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 tech to a maverick. he also specializes in the counter investigations of death sentence cases it is thanks to him that innocent inmates were freed after many years on death row. they spent prison oh gosh i think the better part of eleven years. right now they're free they're

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. that's going to tip and the problem is nobody hears very much of the truth. or justice they want to win you know they want to win doesn't 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 where necessary to gain richard's trust and now he is willing to show his no work on the miller case that name is very familiar. these or the convictions this is a bank robbery supposedly. this is what all the witnesses are going to pistol fight

it so you you have all of. this this unique evidence enabled richard to form his own opinion. undermines the official version well. well to argue that thomas was or was not there it's debatable but to actually come up with who did the shooting and 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 that 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 restaurant. hotel clark douglas walker refused to comply he was shot dead at the age of twenty five. is young colleague wounded 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 have it was in you have it here you know yes this is irrefutable you know this is you know he he clearly tells them that he came to identify he didn't see anyone he said i'm too tired i didn't see them. the second time to show him a lineup you can't be absolutely sure. in then towards the end. he describes the other guy and then he describes thomas in you know when you have something like that. you know new. this story of the self

contradicting president and only witness for the richard rayna he now wants to know about the arrest. are ok. five days after the crime it is in this quiet houston suburb that 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 and those plans 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 we jumped on the car started running. and was shot. and. we just couldn't move his legs pro-us. can be heard. somebody how do you say you see a familiar the b. maybe of the year if you do a clue. actually to me i told thomas that it certainly looked to me like he was supposed to do and that's the end of the story. in. but i must get noted 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 hotel clerk. 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's your shoes. from the outset thomas miller tonight any involvement in the crime 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 a survivor this is again identify and you have somebody else that says save my life and i'll tell you that thomas did it. when you have doubts.

both the investigation and the arrest still raise many questions with the police there is no doubt the thomas miller is guilty his punishment must be death 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 almost dying after his arrest. was only seven years old.

getting dressed for school and when i went into the wrong. she was about to call my here and she was like do you know who that was that was on television. and. 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 kept her away from the start story. to understand she asked us to show her the commits we have along with her husband bruce she hopes to find some you know that he is. going to see. these says. chris because of this shooting.

he said he believed. to be. that he believed to be the truth. the first time i actually. i was fifteen at the time it was like. so. like you know. it was like it's you know. you want to know what have i been. doing bill of the. time. how did you feel it was the state's take you to see i would get a letter due to be executed next week we had to go down. business for two days straight it's like. a cinema on. the sea. bed is

a very scary moment for you to know you can. hear one of your parents with a manner of me it's. the first. part. traumatized. about three days to write. you know when you're ready to write or. just just write. we sit down and we start to write about. you know was no control over. this is the first appearance of thomas after numerous years of isolation shot by a spanish television crew in one thousand nine thousand nine. hundred.

forty. eight you. heard there more than four hundred inmates alone. in a four square metres a misstep through there are many black people many hispanic people many people without lawyers they have nothing else to do but wait 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 one thousand nine thomas is exhausted from waiting. to give you execution day. you get it it will still give you execution date. would you care. if they.

believe me. just want to be execution for anybody go through my life. i security prison. is found in the middle of the texan countryside. this death row has the highest number of executions in the us mimic waits for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time friends activist sandrine as george 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 on the road between violence the prison where is a desk for and has a city where the addiction room is zero down here is the last throes of people are sentenced to death it is sell assets chance to look outside and see nature and

cheer. for their last chance as for smell and feel because they've been a solitary confinement for so long as are all put that in all the best of them as i remember a man sentenced to death who said that as each breath he took along the road to death he heard he's heard it louder and louder on this about the effect it was going to pass the silence was it. thomas miller has been down this path many times . we just heard a cry you know. we're going to say what do you know don't let us lose all. of us. through turn around. february july and the vendor 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 income us this case it's completely in human and and

believe it or to have to go through this ten times in his life and why it is a never ending torture and we haunted him until he said last thing. delaying the execution that will take place behind these walls can happen the night before or even in the final few minutes. the 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 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 the 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 ask already and their visitors to family. 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 would happen but that was what i wanted to be. i was i stayed right with him all day. thirteen telephones in the room writing one from the governor or one from the attorney general and when there was some telephone right i knew that which is the sign to go. and i said it's time to go. there are two. and i would lead them into this put the best chamber stand right next to.

the most i'm on me to hold their hands and i would hold that hand until they got to park. where the execution would have to put a bandage to and then i would stand right five inches from their right way and. i was my i put my hand on her leg and it was. concentrate the other afterward it. think mccain would then maybe you know it was like oh i want to be ransomed something right there right. you know is. it disappointing that had we had reached the ways that we were happy you don't think you took over you know because we would have an opportunity to make some

funny get out of this place you know we see that it's really it's horrible to watch somebody who doesn't know what their face. he was one of the few that. wrote to get prepared he was very cooperative and i think that he understood for a moment when he was there that one i'm not anti racist it can be you know with a thirty percent of the people who are if you did they fish are not white. exhausted in the polls after sixteen years in the death row 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 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 rates these cowboys care for their reputation. even proudly promote the death penalty in a museum dedicated to it in huntsville that prison if. nothing is missing that otieno movie describing life in prisons and the forced work of the end they also specify that there is no air conditioning no intimacy in the cells no tourists are reassured security is at its highest level and the number of caustic usually is increasing. nothing to see people come from far away to see it still another chair nicknamed old sparky it was discontinued in one nine hundred sixty four lethal injection has replaced it. oh yes that's right you're going to

paris and you know. how does things that fit. for shivering instant the tourist can even play prisoner. sites they are not real prisoners that. i'm.

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