in the car. there are butterflies in my. rear. backyard you know. the options there used to be. you know i honestly thought that we were going to be excited you know for this day. and i think it's just completely different and i think we're we're scared we're sad and we're not scared or worried i'm not saying 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 that was his sentence and it needs to be carried arrow. and who when he heard it if he didn't.

if he was you know going to general population if you can because there's just no way. this interview to come down to you. and i think the only way it's going to you know is not to hear his name again your temperature on the news you've got another appeal going every time we do this there's. we were tired of it well in the end 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 even reading living that day and you know. yeah. first. of all evil.

nothing stupid since when you put the victims with suspects or with which gardner stammering that's just not right. and if i totally wrong. reason jointers to the world very probably means it's real miles davis firing squad excuse you you know stuff it's probably not. 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 the 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 and 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. at midnight mr geiger was removed from his observations and watch. to the chamber he was escorted by corrections staff and was called and went willingly mr gardner was seated in the chamber and placed in restraints and one truly asked mr gardner if he 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. and this regard no

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 is required complete dedication 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 it was the first guy firing squad to night a partner to kill method over the often lethal injection attorney said he believed in the phrase written by the bad guy by the gardner spent the last hours of life being 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. a 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 a lot of the garden was telling them that this is a biologic act he didn't want them to see that and i like others i found it. not that violent i mean i'm not trying to be a bit of a comma 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 why cohorts 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 well it was fine and i didn't find it to be clinical at all. it was very clean. very humane and. you know if you see a movie that when somebody gets shot you see a ladder all over the place and this wasn't where you could just see a little pool of blood by step afterwards. and.

like i say i feel sorry for them but i do think he owes me an apology. and i never did get it. 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 person to stop me from going out and saying them. i mean i want to talk to him 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 at. 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.

long. or long. the. only love. use it in our language we use it in sports we use it in our foreign policy we export it all over the world we 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 no 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 human eyes 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 way. here

because if. you talk to anybody around here you know the best way to go. but don't really even know where you. are you going to grow to be. where there is no more maybe. there are no way. and little room.

this is a difficult and uncomfortable place to live he began to grow but we're going with the noisy wake up call followed by brock was good for the state of texas just not our country. are you aware when the business as usual no. i don't and listen i hear somebody speak better understand and know what read in the paper at the flooring to houston paper i think there's one scheduled in there remember one time to our well i think we have to this week. they usually do most tuesdays so i think i think there may be one tonight one thursday but i may be

wrong. otherwise i don't know how to keep up with the intention. with more than one hundred groups and you're. going to house more than one hundred and fifty thousand and ten years our job is to supervise criminal homes and reduce the size of the correctional rationalizer the texas department of criminal justice meet this challenge every day we're serving the people of texas. it's an eye for an eye on it so far to it i know that there are places out there that. will cut your hands out cut your fingers off. you know if you steal they cut your hand out and that takes care of that i mean if i lost my hand for stolen i think i'd be a lot less. likely to steal again and.

it's not think ignore it or belittle it it's to announce like most things less that affection directly. like when karla faye tucker got executed our. carry. gary graham i mean we had it every day i don't think there was another satellite truck left in the entire united states every one of them was here. and i mean i had to sort out over took the community and i was kind of things but but most times it's always

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

for people there's an illinois. policy surely not five times and in this argument is that there's always the danger of that person. you know he did it in capital punishment be here it is. not new. now problem is this we have as a nation ever as a nation not done a hard thing it's because we might make sense to me as it was. when we went in the world war two suited to go. do you believe it then the bombings that took place in the attacks that took place in the invasion did it like that and this is a guy caught up in that fire and they got all of those odds and and the civilians

guys killed well absolutely absolutely. but that is sub was for understanding the sensitivity that a very afraid oh depended on our being willing to fight or we were leaving a lot to be said you know life punishment because we might make the stayed still prisoners because there are over there are there since the prison though that was for us it oh doorsill our children who we made a mistake it's. a bad of all of us. our son needs to understand that he told her you will all go five late this is a city alive a load that's another issue those there will be all you people to grieve for a life you know you're against abortion but you're born again plus. there are so

vague they came out of his mother's moods that had already taken a lot. and they. built the guy i was going to live and i believe what the piece of the liberty of at least if i really was yours as sure is clear that. it's kind. of. illegal. they are. you a. you. a. cause they are. told 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 of their lack of politics or. their lack of desire to get involved in the community and help folks out people who can't speak for themselves you know the elderly and prisoners children. you know the disabled. there to seems to be a reluctance to get involved i wonder about the middle class sometimes to 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 pope breaking in the house still in their stuff and infuriates. and in a you know elected politicians who say to worry about it i've got an idea how to fix this. and course they don't so. i don't i don't blame them that much but you know from our folks. i guess it's not easy you got to participate. definitely but none of the justices i was proud of the twenty years i did it you know i did whatever my government that

went where they say they had what they say. and then they they wrote me our work we have. i always thought we had a great justices you know you're convicted by your peer. but your peers personally but it is jury box. like they did. and the time they get through selecting the jury. they got exactly what they want you know who they won't question enough to know that they're going above l.t. i knew they were alive and they wish you were trouble but i didn't know how we're going to get out of it. we was in

a world of trouble to hello i'm trying to get out they tell me they sit watching us and it's hard to get them out. just moved here. no order. to move here for. i used to live here. i was on death row for nineteen years right there in that building. the innocence

project in new york and the f.b.i. . men and women as a couple of the people. who. were involved in my prosecution knew that it wasn't me it was 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 in the city who told the f.b.i. who i was in that they thought that my case was was fraudulent. and they did d.n.a. tests and it was me. on the evening of an execution about an hour before. everybody goes to the back of

their cage and takes their shoe off and starts beating on the toilet if you hit on it with a shoe it's insanely loud inside the building so all the dead. there were mates with did that they wouldn't do it a lot but they would do it. they guy know that. he was being thought of that we were going to forget it 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. for twenty thirty minutes or so people be down the toilet and they stop doing it and give that man some peace and quiet with his family and his priest in the end award because he's fixing to die. but we always did send a message to those men that were dying. thinking about. issues that so much could be going to make a lot of people

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syrian rebels call for foreign intervention and more weapons with violence reportedly raging outside the capital. a lift for the french left president socialists and their our lives secure a majority in the around the first round of the parliamentary vote paving a power forward form. and police searched the homes of prominent russian opposition figures in connection with clashes at a major rally last month which is that both protesters and officers injured. from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's

six pm here in the russian capital as u.n. observers struggle to make a difference in conflict torn syria international calls for military action are growing louder the new syrian opposition leader has demanded intervention even if it means bypassing international law the head of the group also made a plea for more arms for the rebels you know out damascus is on the defensive with finding reported near the capital as marine finance not now reports use we've been receiving in the last few days indicate that the rebels are gaining on the syrian regime we've been hearing here in damascus explosions and gunfire between oppositions and governmental forces and it's been much much more frequent than ever before with violence has not only is collated here in the capital but everywhere across the country over the weekend the local media have also been reporting that the rebels are now in perception of chemical weapons and.