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and by midnight that night they had a full confession for the dozen different cases. the man they arrested was twenty nine year old troy graves philadelphia's elusive center city rapist graves was accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and one count of murder in the death of shannon schieber. the prosecutor was district attorney lynn abraham. the prosecutor in the city of philadelphia who is known as a pretty deadly d.a. in other words she put more people on death row then any other prosecutor in pennsylvania and probably any a large number around the country. graves was found guilty and the district attorney wanted the death penalty but the she bers did not. it meant they would have to fight for the life of their daughter's killer we had said to each other and consulted with our very large families that what we do if they ever caught
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a ball we would stick to our principles and off someone was going to want to put to death we were going to argue for a life without the possibility of parole. the district attorney voiced her disagreement and outrage. the district attorney there became very very upset she became very public with her and with her opinion and she said i don't care what the heber said the death penalty was the appropriate sentence for their daughter's murder. why were they not one. for vicki in sil the answer was clear. we just can't let this anger this natural human anger and pain overwhelm us and make us so then small and hateful because it would just over time destroy us and we know that. vicki and sil received piles of hate mail the cues in them of not loving their
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daughter. you know if you can't stand by your principles when it's difficult they're not your principal. several years past before jerry learned that washington was not guilty. it had to be like fifteen or twenty executions at that girl was it leads from death row that i found out that he was he was innocent as it were out as that's as close calling you know he came within days in how to execute an innocent person. criminal justice system spent posed to be the best in the world. make those mistakes and yet when you see a person like earl washington. something happened there. in the aftermath of the oklahoma city bombing in one thousand nine hundred five congress passed legislation to escalate death sentences the result was
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a dramatic increase in executions by one thousand nine hundred nine jerry was putting to death more than one person per month. and a death certificate reads. death by almost i. you know don't make sense i don't want to be consider a person desk a minute i'll decide but that's when it really. at the. sixty two executions and the only kilobit agassi was myself and i refuse to look into the mirror. he nearly took the life of for a washington and couldn't help but wonder if there were others. research now shows that for every nine executions there is one inmate found innocent and exonerated. one out of ten who might have been mistakenly put to death.
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feel. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be fuzzy. want. perhaps. that's right to be for us as a white woman for freedom or can't be good but. i'm interested always in the waters and last. question. shows seem wrong all what i'll call just all. to make you call it is
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yet to shape out just to become educated and engagement equal to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. nearly two years after the bombing the trial was about to begin. karen left her home in new hampshire early to arrive for the opening statements. it was the first time she had scenes are naiads since the arraignment. the room inside the court room karin and the other survivors were seated just twenty feet away he refused to look at them and. the defense team would make the case that zone cars are najaf was unduly influenced by his older brother. the prosecutors would argue
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that he was fully responsible for his actions. many victims shared their experiences including the father of eight year old martin who described having to choose between comforting his dying son and saving his daughter. over the next four weeks karen and other survivors relive the horror of the bombing . they reached out to each other for support. coming to court it was amazing how quickly and how close we all got it with where like a family. but her husband ron stayed away. since the bombing ron has changed and it's a hard thing to watch the man that you. struggle so desperately and be so angry he's just not the same as he was before federal jury convicted to heart and i have and all thirty counts he was facing for the boston marathon bombing just
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eleven hours the jury found our native guilty of all charges now they would decide if he should be put to death. the survivors were divided. karen's friend celeste was for a death sentence. the richards not wanting to go through years of appeals but decided against it. it's a long tough process to really examine. why you feel what you feel. you really have to look at yourself. pretty hard to decide. as soon as vicki and sil learned the identity of the man who raped and murdered their daughter vicki wanted to know more. i want it i want to know why i want to stand what he did why was this going forward like that what was going on where was his background with that you have to talk to his mother and i to understand who he
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was vicki located troy graves mother and gave her a call were you were on the phone together for many many hours in tears just tears sobbing with each other i said but just to understand what you are going there i want to share with you what i'm going through and maybe we can help each other. and learn from each other and just come to some kind of peace with all this because god you must be going to a terrible time to wash yourself you know and she says oh this is she or i. was mother blamed herself for her son's actions and i said i don't think of what when he said she said it got more and more violent and i. and my kids would come to me and it say please money lets go of this is a bad danny's best i was telling them i can't i don't have a job i don't have you know education i can't support you oh my god how can i be
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angry. vickie began meeting with inmates on death row. she discovered a system of victims on all sides we could just hear she and say mom and dad now that you know about the system the terrible flaws in the bias the racial the geographic bias of caught cos if they don't get their lawyers just all i can or not you know we're going to do upon. they began advocating across the country and quickly found that many people thought all victims wanted the death penalty. they say that the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite and we've been through this and this isn't the way you whose child dies. hard and. so you have to you have to kind of learn to live with this hole in your heart.
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either we can continue to do well on it and then of well up the misery and sustain that misery that. that we incurred because of what was going on or are we can we can try and force things to change to the extent we can they countered their grief by sharing their story and providing testimony that would influence death penalty legislation. losing a loved one to murder it's a tragedy on imaginable proportions this all happened for her testimony helped maryland become the eighteenth state to repeal capital punishment i've told my daughter story now twenty two different states and i have seen the tremendous effect of this whole system on murder victims' family members. in an ongoing tribute to the memory of their daughter vicki and still continue their efforts to end the death penalty.
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in boston nearly three weeks had passed since our nails was found guilty but the federal jury had yet to make a decision about whether he should be put to death. karen went to the courthouse nearly every day. over the course of the trial she had become one of the main spokespersons in media contacts for the survivors. but for now there was nothing to do but wait. you mean suddenly a text from a clerk inside glued her that the jury was close to a decision. they're going to be coming out of the verdict any time now i would prefer it be you know and the death penalty just because i think that's a fair thing the right thing. is awful if that is. i think it's the just
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thing that's what i'm hoping. and we are coming on the air because the jury deciding the fate of boston marathon bombers the horrors and i have has reached a verdict. they have sentenced him to death. news of the verdict traveled fast but know that there is still a long road ahead but right now it feels like we can take a breath and thank you. actually breathe again you know without even realizing all the crap. once the bird came and it's like now we can start here don't point. to with son lives fate sealed karin began the long drive home. i don't think it evens the score i don't think that it teaches anybody anything. i don't believe that it's going to be
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a deterrent to the next young man who has anger but i just think that that's nothing no other choice in my mind that is fair. after seventeen years and sixty two executions jerry's time as executioner came to an abrupt end. in the midst of preparing for another execution he was subpoenaed by a grand jury and accused of money laundering gerry claimed he was innocent but the court found him guilty. the sunday after his sentencing jerry's long held secret about his role as executioner became public. they printed in the paper they said a man to carry out execution orders for this data but ginia was found guilty once i
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was out i mean i'm exposed so i gotta come forward i got a camel why is this in the truth about this fair. why me know all because i didn't see you i don't want you to have to go through what happened go to. gerry served his time he learned that earl washington received a full pardon and after seventeen years was finally released from prison about four percent of the guys that have executed and they stuck out that they were innocent so in napa earl's case you know placed doubt here to find out that innocent people were there on death row. after serving his time jerry worked hard to rebuild his life. he began speaking out against the death penalty one of the few executioners to do so we need to do that we need to change and i didn't enjoy killing people so what
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can we do to prevent these things from happening. jerry thought often about washington if i ever get to see him i want to say oh you know i'm sorry i'm glad that things didn't go in a way there was plan to go and i'm glad to see you on a side because i can apologize to you after that take your life you know. that i pad biden that's it. i'm glad i didn't get it tested so i apologized for the name thanking the way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to visit europe to talk with him face to face.
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though it had been many years jerry and earl swapped stories and quickly we discovered a shared custody that's all you know one day i was mad and i was in a. i'm going to ritual follow swing through ok that's what it led to yeah you know i wonder would we're going to you know went through your mind not doing it he was innocent oh mama he did the whole war and she bought it raise your blood get me through which are just. this is a good thing that i didn't give it you know because i'll bring it to whether he didn't do anything wrong. you know also isn't something that i would have to face. but to see him crossing that bridge and to meet him and other this is a good to have. him that. you don't know because you're
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a lot of jubilation. this is our to international coming to you live from moscow with me jeff and thanks for telling us. we start with our special coverage of the world cup russia's team has pulled out another victory for all football fine for the knockout stages of the world cup that's after they beat egypt three one we've been keeping an eye on the game with our co-host former denmark and manchester united goalkeeper peter schmeichel joined by our two feel harvey. just looking at pictures from a fun song to get swatted not the round to give a tank moment the one hundred forty four million people in russia on a lot of them be watching the guy and they've been celebrating the gongs in cities all around this fast country let's see how they react. just.
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fifty. great scenes not bring scenes behind to say your last post. because castrate. just by the crime in that scene playing location safe with people i wanted to say when the first moment i thought this was so russian russia went ahead so i know a direction and i have one question knowing that. they are right thank kind of don't believe he's going to last when he went to know while what a response and everyone else around the. time will be yet must be he what we are absolutely electrifying for for all of this tournament we've had most of the south american teams had their fans been marching to and from the singing dancing when the second go away and i don't even now i'm not sure you can hear that's a massive cost down there and that there's no doubt about it it's all russian singing on her all the money is going on in st petersburg so people but where i
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think it is probably in russia and now coming onto the street i can see you know the house traffic you know it's building off a stunning and memorable victory for the host russia against egypt here in st petersburg the first off was quite sites of all the russia having the better of it all alexander golovin really putting the strings as his team created several chances and also romans up in running the mid field but towards the end of the hoff mohammed said i would been quite quiet throughout the first off tons shot from the edge of the area narrowly missing the right hand post in the seconds off very early on dissolved in how the shot which is deflected into his own goal by ahmed thought see that was the second or goal we've seen here in st peter's but i'm not really got the ball rolling twelve minutes late good work by mario foot on this on the
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right fed cherish of who for. it is quite neatly to make it to nil and after the game we managed to catch up with him to get his emotions he says it's ok for. we relax. it's important for us because. we will play a game as if this is the best teams in the world. and you will hear that if you relax three minutes late so awesome job a ball the ball down on his chest but pos of the fund made it three no the stadium was going crazy the noise was louder than anything i've heard inside of a football match for many a year mohammed said last scored a consolation goal from the penalty spot to make it three one but ultimately it wasn't enough the russian player is understandably ecstatic with a result that takes him through to the last sixteen and brings joy to every russian
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here in this country i always had the impression that no one really believes that russia has a football team do anything as an organizing country absolutely sure that this could happen but as a football team but what has happened over the last six days five days it is you know it's the trains the mood and the people i mean what's going on behind the still. clear sort of evidence of that and it's happening so many times where the host nation no one really believes them and then they do well and then that the whole place explode all she says what i'm enjoying had the same people waving the russian national flag and dancing because russians i don't know been to in fact not that expressive and i think i think it was the scene just below is downtown but money isn't a square by the crown and that was the statue of marshal marshals zuko on the square like you said filled with people and you know i wonder how many of them actually are football fans because this is one of those times when world cups i
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remember my mother would. excited and she didn't even understand how many minutes were in the game almost people get excited this is what football is this is what the world cup is this is what these big events twenty brings the world together and people in reality don't care where it is as long as it's nice the weather is nice and there are places where they can actually party and it's organized well i have to say it's been organized really well and you know people have been allowed to do what what they wanted to and for the party and today it's a local people to show all the guests how well they can party and as you can see everywhere. you know the party is really going i'm just marveling at how many new friendships are going to be made because everyone there are no barriers now everyone's just chatting whatever country come from whatever language and i wonder how new how many new relationships are going to be struck up as well this is a time where all barriers are disappearing. this is what happens when
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multiculturalism globalism works and people come together and i'm just wondering how many friends this guy waving his flag and dancing around that just outside the kremlin of all places i mean you friends he's going to make this is yeah it's a party but it's a party even without alcohol this is the party of just high spirits people really enjoy much you would have any fresher actually one of the game i don't know if they say we got out. ok. that's a wee wee dram and a small but it was a we say that the party is because russia won they won three one against the two tonight a convincing win but it took a little bit of luck to break the darko stride after that and and we can see the first goal here a man he probably feels like he needs a drink now and fancy conceded the first goal and this is how it happened this was in the forty seven minutes is nil after on and i was saying to pace ok not much to see in first forty five then this happened. because roman zalman shops pretty weak
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no danger until. one thousand. got in the way i actually think he left it fits and that would have gone out for throw yeah i guess that's how bad the shot was and how wide it was but it sometimes is something happens that you can't explain and if you ask him what happened to that is he would say i don't know he just wants the ball is in sequence of the ball out of balance it hit the hardest part of his leg the need and it bounced off of the goalkeeper had no chance but that kind of set the tone and then very shortly after that the second goal. was scored and would you believe it denis cherish if you didn't even start the first game and can he came on and score too and again. turned the right place at the right time to start the ball in every high and the egyptian goalkeeper and now he is a top scorer with renowned us from the author who would have thought that gold and contender wasn't in the starting eleven and this is a world cup a surprise
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a survey so so we talked about the change today between small of and super smallest out on the bench and super was upfront i have to give you credit you were in favor of this season this is a good change. he didn't disappoint i'd like super in the sense that he came on and changed the name but again saudi arabia where swallows did nothing so i think it you know now that you know chance of his is vindicated face decision because as you can see zuba scored the third goal and in some style i know it's a long ball up but he has control of the ball was really good the way he took it under the foot of the defend and the way he started then he's he's a really really good player for for russia and he's shown himself to be a good player in the. shuffle game he's had now a little more than a full game we scored what seagulls he showed a lot of the and fights that's what more could you want to use there and it gives russia the option to actually put the ball up to him because he's strong enough
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he's physical enough to keep the ball up and let the team come out where. when we saw what he got substituted with small oh that's what i actually played a lot better when he came on he's a different kind of player he likes to fall in the he likes to get the ball and build it up and they zoom but it's not that kind of player so it's two different things and the end of the day it's who is in the best form and that guy then dictates how russia place. so three now and really just chaotic scene syrian central moscow this point deafening cheers from that from the crowds below us then it was just the flick and you start to wonder is there a comeback on when this happened this is in the seventy third minute so that the gold a man for egypt is pulled down most along the referee gives a free kick and this is where we saw documenting first of all what a finish that water what a confident penalty kick that is you know it doesn't matter what the goalkeeper.
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