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four days into the tournament but some fans have jumped on their politicians bandwagon and boycotting the tournaments over human rights issues. up next the far reaching ramifications of america's capital punishment which spreads beyond death row. no kirk and you guys find your way there i know people all there in their lives but you. don't much to ask. anybody you want to. know me. very good tonight. i'm going to go watch them. the execution.

trying to guard their right leader. and i've got butterflies in my. rear when i have. you going back there you know. why nobody options there continues to be. you know i honestly thought that we were going to be excited in all for this day. and i think it's just completely different i think we're more scared we're sad and we're not scared or worried i'm not scared i don't get anything that needed to come for a long long time i'm sorry it took so long. but i'm not i mean you don't ever want to wish anybody dad you know i mean it's a horrible thing to see somebody die but it that was his sentence and it needs to

be carried out and who would he hurt him if he didn't. if he was you know going to general population he just can't because there's just. this tendency to come down to you to be of help. and i think you're always going to have. you know is not to hear is never get your temperature on the news you got another peeler going every time we do this there's going to be gardeners name here. who are tired of it all in and hurts too because we remember exactly what. he did to dad and it brings back that day every single time you hear it on the news or you see it in the paper it's like reading have been reading living that day and you know going through duty. first the best book the holy.

do. nothing stupid since when you put the victims with their suspect or with with gardner's family that's just not right. and if i totally wrong. person changes to the world very probably means it's will be the most ever firing squad excretion you know stuff rather painful knowing. that. i'm really sad. i'm really sad that the united states of america would even allow such a tragic thing to occur. sad. and besides the fact that it's my father. makes it easier to be together as a family it's

a support you know support group for what's about to happen across the street so. we also have there's also a couple here. that is a nice one of the victims that was killed by my dad and they've been down here and they've been with us and have forgiven my dad they've been down here with us the whole day so it's been it's been a good day it's a sad ending but a good day. ever midnight mr geiger was removed from his observations and walked. to the chamber he was escorted by corrections staff and was calm and went willingly mr gardner was seated in the chamber and placed in restraints and warden truly asked mr gardner if you had any thoughts or feelings to express to which mr gardner replied i do not following the statement which was placed over mr gardner's

head and it. and the warrant was served. in this regard there was pronounced dead at twelve seventeen this morning i'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of the staff for the department of corrections this is fair and onerous responsibility this is been one that has required complete dedication and has been exhausting. it has been one that has been done with absolute dignity and reverence for human life and also reverence for the lives that have already been lost at the hands of mr gardner. forty one year old partner with the third guy firing squad one tonight. partner to kill method over the top of lethal injection attorney said he believed in the phrase ripped by the gun die by the gun gardner spent the last hours of life on the

reading and watching the lord of the rings. i'm jennifer doppler on with the associated press here in salt lake city. it was fast it was. i'm with clinical and very sanitary yet the other observation would be. it wasn't like a movie. at all and i remember talking to his brother earlier tonight they did not attend because ironically gardner was telling them this is a biology act he didn't want them to see that and i like others i founded not that violent i mean i'm not trying to be. a commie here but it was it was just it was sanitized it happened so quickly i was expecting something a little bit more drastic it didn't happen. i have to disagree with some white

course on the table i've got a very and i grew up with a winchester thirty thirty in my house but i think when you see it actually it a human being and you watch them move to some extent that was it was violent and i didn't find it to be clinical at all. oh i know. why oh. why. you thought it was very clean. very like human. you know if you see a movie that when somebody gets shot you see a platter all over the place and this it wasn't that whatever you could just see a little pool of blood by some like afterward it was good to see any blood fly in

that or not and whether you're. like that they feel sorry for them but they do think he owes me an apology. and i never did get it so. he could have written me a letter and he could have asked to talk to me on the phone before this and i would have talked to him. i guess it was the prisoner stuff before going out and saying that. i mean i want to talk to it face to face i'd rather do that than have somebody on the telephone i think i can tell the difference between a line you know if you look in the eyes. and. but they didn't decided not to do that so. that i can get along with it this way i feel really at peace now. i feel like it's finally over.

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say that we don't like the effects of violence on individuals or their families but we have no hesitation in using it. as a solution in this country. the death penalty is reserved for people who were convicted of extremely violent offenses against individuals so most americans have nothing in common with death row inmates they are the easiest group of people in america to have no sympathy for to not think about or to not care about society has condemned these people as less than human we call them monsters garbage scum filth

vermin trash we do you mean them so to kill them is not to kill a person it's to just get rid of garbage in our minds. so using the death penalty is not seen as being violent it's just making america better to purify america by getting rid of subhumans certainly to take a person and lock them up for the rest of their life with no chance of release is not an easy thing to do either nor is it an easy thing to carry out the death penalty but these are things that are necessary to be done. it is necessary to punish crime everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done and so i don't i don't see it as as an issue of violence i see as an issue of

deserved punishment being carried out in a careful and humane way. here because it is. your job to anybody around you that route. don't even know where your. money going to grow they should be going back to where no more may remember about a week or a month ago my idea there are no way. the room. these

. places are. like. prison is a difficult and uncomfortable place to live day begins well before dawn of the noisy wake up call followed by breakfast and for the state of texas just not our country as. you well when the business as usual no. i don't and listen i hear somebody speak manager sent and i read in the paper i think this morning that he's done papers i think there's one scheduled. for tomorrow one time two are what i think we have to this week and they usually did one two states so i

think i think there may be one tonight one thirty but i may be around. otherwise i don't know how to keep up with the contingent. with more than one hundred groups and your t.t.c. jagan house more than. a hundred and fifty thousand and ten years our job is to supervise criminals homes and room to society and the original price goes up the texas department of criminal justice to meet this challenge every day we're taking and serving the people looked like. it's an eye for an eye on it so far to it i know that there are places out there that that. you know will look at your hands out put your fingers out. you know if you steal they cut your hand off and that takes care of that i mean if

i lost my hay and for stolen i think i'd be a lot less. likely to steal again if. it's not people ignore it or belittle it it's to this you know it's like most things less affection directly. like when karla faye tucker got executed. gary gary graham i mean we had every. i don't think there was another satellite truck left in the entire united states every one of them was skier. and then you know just sort of overtook the community and those kind of things but most

times it's always you know it's always mention in the paper and you know among the local. reporters always goes to the executions other than that it's not. it's just part of life here.

i heard people there's a debate going on should we apply have punished should we not apply punishment and this argument is that there is always the danger of that in this person you know be convicted and capital punishment be cured and then finally it is not made. now almost as if we had been there as an age ever as a nation not done a hard thing is because of the mind set as i mean as it was when we went into world war two sixty years ago. do you think that in the bombings that took place in the attacks that took place in the invasion

that took place that is. in that five they didn't follow those laws and and the civilians got you well absolutely absolutely. but that is sub was for understanding the necessity that the very afraid o. depend on our being willing to fight. is where we're leaving a lot of the to say you know life punishment because we might just say this show will prisons because there's over there there's an incipient with prison though that was for bush's oh dorsolateral because we made to say. all that kind of was our society needs to understand they told her you go on a job filing this agency alive and you load that's about it she does it will you

all you people to pray for a life you know you're a bit abortion but you're for the family plus i've never saw a baby they came out of this mother's mood that i know or to take in the law. and lead understand it if i obey will be going to live and i'm going to do what the peace of the liberty of that obedience but if i break the law there is a sure and swift punishment as car. but it would be illegal. all along they are. willing. to vote for the c.d.c. did. you read. the way we've. heard this. young mother mary. god in the in the coming in on her come.

we are going to get folks you know live and let live and all that but you know i get a little grumpy with some folks because of you know their politics or their lack of politics or. their lack of desire to get involved in the community and help folks up people who can't speak for themselves feel the elderly and prisoners children. you know the disabled. there to seems to be

a reluctance to get involved so i wonder about the middle class sometimes those are the ones who are before. they they make the decisions about who gets elected to office and i can understand the frustration they work very hard for what they have to give them a nice car for their family and live somewhere where their kids can go to good schools and they can live in a nice house in a nice neighborhood and have some you know eighteen year old point breaking in the house stealing your stuff and infuriates them and then they you know elect politicians who say to worry about it i've got an idea how to fix that. and course i don't so. i don't i don't blame him that much but damn you know from our snap. i guess as a market it's not easy you got to participate. in. the patriot definitely but not of the

justices i was proud of the twenty years i did it and i you know i did whatever my government that went what they said they had what they said and then i think right now wrong we have. i always thought we had a great justice system you know you're convicted by your peer which appears to be a partially but it is jury. and like they did it. and the time they get through selection a jury they've got exactly what they want you know who they won't question enough to know that they're going to vote l.t. i knew they were alive and it was

a world of trouble but i didn't know how we're going to get out and. we was in a world of trouble allowing time to get out they told me they said watching us and it's hard to get them out. i. just moved here why no border. to move here for. that oh yeah. i get. to work here you know where you are. i know. that. i used to live here. i mean that. i was on death row for nineteen years right there

in that building how to get the innocence project in new york and the f.b.i. . the men and women as a couple of the people who use me who. were involved in my prosecution knew that it wasn't me you know it the jurors they didn't know it wasn't their fault. they committed perjury in another case another man who lives here on death row and when the f.b.i. what they did was falsified an f.b.i. document as part of their investigation of this homicide. and when the f.b.i. found out about it they came knocking and wanted to know what was going on and when they did there were good men and women in law enforcement and in the defense community ennobled the city who told the f.b.i. who i was and that they thought that my case was was fraudulent. and they did d.n.a. tests and it was me. on

the on the evening of an execution about an hour before hand. everybody goes to the back of their cage and takes their shoes off and starts beating on the toilet if you get on it with a shoe it's insanely loud inside the building so all the death row inmates would do that they wouldn't do it alone but they would do it. to select a guy i know that. he was being thought of that we were going to forget it wasn't really meant to be disruptive or anything but just to let the people in the building know we're here and we're alive and we know what's going on so usually for twenty thirty minutes or so people beat on the toilet and they stop doing it and give that man some peace and quiet with his family and his priest in the end the warden because he's fixing to die but we always did send a message to those men that were dying. thinking about.

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