on the back here with r.t. and here's a reminder of the week's top stories plus survivors of a siberian plane crash are in stable condition and it's now thought likely that the failure to spray the aircraft that it frees caused it to fall to earth thirty one people including all the crew were killed. time's running out for the latest peace plan for syria with the u.n. pressing the government and opposition to lay down weapons both sides of the conflict are expected to cease fire by thursday or face further measures from the

u.n. security council. boss moscow slams the sanitizing of picture book and vows to bring the alleged russian arms dealer home after us for gave him twenty five years for conspiring to kill americans the judge said there will be no evidence against both it's not for resting operations that entrap him. up next year in r.t. as our special for about a man who's been skating death for decades despite receiving capital sentance. 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 tonight.

but. i'll make you a bit of a. work. that's the. theory of thanks. time has flown by never did we think we would see him alive again. but. one thousand years after our first encounter so many questions are left unanswered how did he stay alive has he changed will we recognize each other. hello tell

us more as you how are you this is him thomas miller. like you. were. 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 our warrant we are given precisely one hour to interview thomas our time a short term this. is nothing to see. some nice and we have. quite a blessing in comparison to the situation that we're faced with. for the next four years how did you miss these fourteen. years. sometime we we sit and read and come to think back and come to figure out exactly

how it is that we persevered. in light of the tremendous motion 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 he 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. his little. girl you were going to do.

this is. all that is. a little a good way to. give your story when you basically disprove what you see. 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 all right because this is where you're going to more than mr. rose will be going to miscarry through the shrill.

you know when it's you know this because it's a joke. or it was considered a good segue to. misquote you know just a few of the record but it was all right no it's difference that it was. a black man accused of killing a white man. typical for texas. governor for the. during the month of the one nine hundred ninety four thomas miller was on the eve of his execution. you know they go through you were saying earlier before your. by were. we were not to see each other again.

and era what was the incident that landed thomas miller on death row and. it was an enigmatic and complex case for which we need to go twenty six years back in time. and in our investigation first leads us to the newspaper archive 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 in social discrimination. a merciless machine that hides its actions but which the miller case will trouble.

a 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 it is thanks to him that innocent inmates were freed after many years on death row. prison oh gosh i think we spent 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 get any representation at all when you know what their. person there are prosecutors there are police officers. that's going to happen problem is nobody hears very much of the truth. or justice they want to win you know they will and there's no matter what but this case it was incredible i made copies of every statement given by the. by the policeman. because they had too many months were necessary to gain by richard strauss 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 that supposedly did. this is what all the witnesses are going to

testify to it's for you you have all of it for even 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 shoot him there were five people last night. for 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 cas register. hotel clark douglas walker refused to comply he was shot dead at the age of twenty five. young colleague wounded is the only

witness of the crime thomas miller as pointed as being the murderer of the young receptionist based soley on his testimony. richard is not satisfied with this official version at all only witness that you was in you have here you know you're this is irrefutable yes this is you know 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. and the second time they show him a liar you know he can't be absolutely sure. in then two or three years and. he describes the other guy and then he describes thomas in here when you have something like that. no you know. this story

of a self contradicting president and only witness for the rich richard graner he now wants to know about the arrest. 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 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 and he jumped on the car started running. and was shot. and. we just make a move that was per hour. can be heard. somebody say you say you're going to give you make of beer if you can. actually tell me i told her i was that it certainly looked to me like he was supposed to been killed and that's the end of the story. but thomas that 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 a couple murder i don't want to go broke i will help you here's your shooter 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 if you have a witness a survivor this is he came to identify and you have somebody else that is saved my life and i'll tell you the thomas did it. when you have doubts.

both the investigation and the arrest still weighs many questions with the police there is no doubt that thomas miller is guilty as punishment must be deaths in march of 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 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 role with my mom was she was about to call my here and she was like you know who that was that was on television . that. her dad and at the time they were showing. the 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 a family had kept her away from the start story. she asked us to show her the documents we have along with her husband bruce she hopes to find some you know that is. you see. these are just. friends he cool of this shooting.

and. he said he believed. to be. that he believed to be the tree. the first time i actually see my dad i was fifteen at the time he was. still me that's in him and. it's like you know. it was like it's you know. you want to know what have i. was i doing fill of the. time. how did you feel these states make because i would get a letter your dad is due to be executed next week we all have to go down there nobody's business for two days straight it's like when you're. in this to. a certain amount it's hard. to see them in.

the bed is a very scary moment thank you you can lose one of your parents within a manner of me it's. the first. black president completely. traumatized you know. we were about. to write a letter to our daughter. in our life and. you know when you're ready to write a letter you just just you just write. we sit down and we start to write out what i want you know because. you know. this is the first appearance of thomas after numerous years of isolation by a spanish television crew in one thousand nine hundred ninety.

s. it was. a view. there 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 for 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 . did you execution. is going to. give you execution date. hope your day. in court. becomes a nightmare. believe me.

just want to. go through more like a. high 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 on the road between parlance the prison where he said this will and has made city where the execution room is zero down here is the last throes of people sentenced to death it is their last chance to look outside and see nature and. the father and their last chance to smell and feel because they've been

a solitary confinement for so long as are opposite that in other us. as i remember a man sentenced to death who said that at each breath he took as a young the road to death he had his hurt beat louder and louder on this by the effect it was going to pass on exposing. thomas miller has been down this path many times. we just are crying you're in we're going to see what do you know don't let us lose all. of us. through god we're. 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 in tell 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 it is a never ending torture and we haunted him until his last day. 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 for 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. that 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. escorting in their visitors their family or lawyers or anybody else and to be there when they needed something big. and whatever that would make them and i want to use word happy but that was what i wanted to get. out of i was i stayed right with him all day. think telephones in the room writing from one from the governor and one from the attorneys your arm when i was through telephone rang i knew that which assigned to go. and i'd say it's time to go. door to unlock it and i would lead into this to the death chamber stand right next to.

the most i want to be to hold their hands and i would hold their hand until they got the power. where the execution if i had to put a bandage to and then i would stand right five inches from their right way and i have put my hand on their way you know those. cuts trade you know them after they were do you. think we came with them maybe because make our own are very real something like that right. you know this. is a point that could we have reached where is that we were happy you know to get it over with you know because we would have an opportunity. to get out of this place

you know we said let's review 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 when when he was there that one i'm not anti-racist we can't be you know more than fifty percent of the people who are actually the texas are not like. exhausted and uphold after sixteen years in the death of a 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 one of their prison sisters if the nothing is missing from the devotional movie describing life in prisons and the forced work of the inmates you may 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 prosecutions is increasing. at nothing this if people come from far away to see it start electric chair nicknamed old sparky it was discontinued in one thousand nine hundred sixty four lethal injection has replaced it. oh yeah that's

right you're going to variously and. that is things that fit. for shivering instant the tourists can even play prisoner. sites they are not real prisoners that. your mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains are beginning worse no doctors been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with it was. i always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs and drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not

soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side effects.