a backyard with r t here's a look at the top stories as american rage gains momentum with several deaths across the arab world in protest over a u.s. made film mocking the prophet muhammad demonstrators are now targeting anti american or western establishment or mission was schools and restaurants now also under attack. after summer lalo rushes opposition is set for nationwide march as the largest being in moscow for the first time opposition groups will be joined by teachers and other public sector workers. and the u.k.

orders a probe into why fuel costs are kept high even when oil prices drop dreyer's in cities speculators are accused of rigging markets while petrol costs are pushing up how much britain's pay for all their goods. next is a story of thomas miller an american who's escaped execution ten times and in the bars for almost thirty years. 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 denied. but. i don't think you.

would have thought that would. make thanks. time has flown by never did we think we would see him alive again. one thousand 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 for us here 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 nothing to see. it's nice to be. quite aggressive in comparison to the situation that we're faced with. for at least twenty years how did you pass these fourteen. years. sometime we sit and read to think back and to figure out exactly how it is that we persevered. in light of the tremendous motion

psychological pressure that goes along with. such an extent then 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 would be executed. he's going to. see the world the world is where. you want to work

this. moment is. when. the lethal injection. where you came. in did your straight in your face this proves you would you to get. out of this go away you know you want to. oh as he survives 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 it's like you're going on with the. right. way to going to screen for a thrill. you know. this

because this is you know. all right let's consider a bit of. a mistake to you know to say he would be like everybody else around and all this defense that i'm going with. a black man accused of killing a white man. typical for texas. during that month of one thousand nine hundred four thomas miller was on the eve of his execution. date or go through. the verge of. by what. we were not to see each other again. narrow 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 anchored in social discrimination. the a merciless machine that hides its actions but which the miller case will trouble. this. 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 rayna is not just a detective but a maverick. he also specializes in the counter investigations of death sentence cases. thanks to him that innocent inmates were freed after many years on death row i don't give a thing prison oh my gosh i think they 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 have any representation at all when you know what there are solutions. there are prosecutors there are police officers. that's going to happen the problem is nobody hears very much truth. or justice they want to win you know they want to win this no matter what but this case it was incredible i made copies of every statement given by the. by that policeman. because certainly they had too many months where necessary to gain britches trust and now he is willing to show his nor can the miller case that name is very familiar these or the convictions this is a bank robbery that he supposedly did. this is what all the witnesses are going to testify to it so you you have all of that for you this this unique

evidence enabled richard to form his own opinion. one that undermines the official version well. to argue that thomas was or was not there you know that's 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 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 cas register. hotel clark douglas walker refused to comply he was shot dead at the age of twenty five these 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 this official version at all only witness that you was in you have it here you know. this is irrefutable yeah 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 lineup he can't be absolutely sure. in then towards the end. he describes the other guy and then he describes thomas in here when you have something like that. then you do. this story of the self

contradicting president and only witness paul there to richard raina he now wants to know about the arrest. i think we're 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 go as planned gunfire broke out. it is in front of this house that the shooting took place. this is said 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 he jumped on the car and started running. and was shot. and. we just couldn't move his legs per us and then we heard. somebody say you see of the niggas be the niggers be if you're a big kid. actually to me i told thomas that it certainly looked to me like he was supposed to been killed and that's the end of the story. and. but thomas did know that he didn't expect to be. to be stabbed in the back by his friend.

in fact miller was denounced by his friend john hicks he confessed to the robbery but associated miller with the murder of the young will tell clark. when you have a lot of people involved in a crime those that come to the prosecutor force and say all cooperate but i don't want to be charged with couple murder i don't want to go to morrow i will help you here is. 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 of this is he came to identify him and you have somebody else that is save my life and i'll tell you that thomas did. when you have doubts.

the both the investigation and the arrest still raise many questions for the police there is no doubt that thomas miller is guilty his punishment must be dest 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 brought almost dying after his arrest show rico was only seven years old i remember i was actually getting dressed for school. when i went into the. she was about to call my hair. she was like do you know. who that was.

and he said that was your dad and at the time they were showing. the police department and i became. sad. because i didn't want to go to school at that time. for years she didn't know anything about the case. along with her husband she hopes to find. these. people. to keep.

me safe they believe. that he believed to be. the first. fifteen at the time. so. you know. the. time. i would get a letter to be executed. bet

is it is scary moment for you to know you can. hear one of your parents at the in a manner of me it's. the first execution date to see this like procter and completely. completely traumatized you know we. we were duped about. to write a letter to him. you know why you. know you know when you're ready to write a minute you just said just you just write what we said and we are right. away 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.

eight you know. more than four hundred inmates alone. in a four square meters on this death row there are many black people many hispanic people and many people without lawyers they have nothing else to do but the way the more time goes by the more they drown and time is never ending but death comes closer by the minute in the year one thousand nine hundred nine. do you. believe. as. you do. you get to give your execution date. can't go to. court. a nightmare. in believe me or just a one to two execution date is unlawful in

a battle to your life their. security prison poland ski is found in the middle of the texan countryside. this death row has the highest number of executions in the us an inmate which for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time french 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 we are on the road between poland ski prison where he said this for and one stage c t well the addiction room is down here is the last throes of people sentenced to death it is sad last chance to look outside and see nature and trees the father and their last chance to smell and feed because they've been

a solitary confinement for so long. as i remember a man sentenced to death who said that that's each breath he took along the road to death he heard he's heard the term louder and louder on this about the effect it was going to pass while exposing. thomas miller has been down this path many times . we just are crying your. we is gone we sleep with do you know don't let us lose all my clothes. for. february july i'm a vendor of ninety four may august and october of ninety five january april and july ninety six february two thousand and two every day does neither delay for miller death leaves ten times and then returns into. this case it's completely in human and and believe it or to have to go through these ten times in his life to

have what it is a never ending torture and we home team until he said last thanks. 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 for the mobilization of a few people may be enough to prevent this terrible and while the wardens and witnesses arrive at walls the one who is to be executed is no longer master of the passage of time only one man stays close to him throughout his last hours. 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 to ask or in

their vision their family or 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 were happy but that was what i wanted to. i was a stay right with him all day. there to telephones in the room right after one from the governor one from the attorney general arm when i was through telephone rang i knew that which. assigned to go. and i'd say it's time to to go. door to unlock it and i would lead them into this to the death chamber stand right next to. a most them

on me to hold their hands and i would hold that hand until they got to. where the executions had put they bandaged them and then i would stand right five inches from their right way. and. i would put my hand all the way you know just. kind of stayed till after they were dated. think we came with them maybe it was like our own or thirty minutes or something like that right. you know. it is the point that did we had reached where is that. we were happy you know to get it over with you know because we would have an opportunity to. to finally get out of this place you know we seem like it's really it's horrible to

watch somebody that doesn't know what death yes. he was one of the few that. wrote to get prepared he was very cooperative and i think that he understood when and when he was there that one i'm not anti-racist can be you know more than fifty percent of the people who are executed texas are not. wide. exhausted and appalled after sixteen years in the death 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 the best prisons i. saw 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 or intimacy in the cells no tourists are reassured security is at its highest level and the number of prosecutions is increasing. my goodness if people come from far away to see it stall and electric chair nicknamed old sparky it was discontinued in one thousand nine hundred sixty four quite lethal injection has replaced it. oh yeah

that's right you're going to paris. for shivering in the tourist can even play prisoner. so i say i'm not really. that. morning. news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images have been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations rule today. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.