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and is favored in those very interesting even to the american interest and i think withdrawing from such an important human occurrence or local votes counsel. undermines all the claims from the side of the american administration that there care so much about human rights that is very dangerous very good situation it has undermined completely the ability of the united states to play at all in any peace in the future and it is definitely affecting the deputation of the american administration and this is also linked to many other issues but on the issue of humorless this is going to be a very serious loss for the american policy. need to bring you some live pictures from the turkish capital ankara now as recep tayyip erdogan looks to be on course for a second five year term as president that's after leaving his opponents trailing in sunday's election as you can see people have pulled onto the streets in celebration
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the new state run media around the country are reporting that ninety five percent of votes have been counted and i say to one is currently on fifty three percent want his closest rival center left kind of at the harm in. just over thirty percent well after the election the office of president will be awarded in new powers which a slim majority of turks approved and a referendum last year parliamentary elections have also been taking place on the ruling a k party is leading in those fifty six million people have voted in turkey and one point five million turks voted from up wrote. about at the top of the hour with all the latest news headlines and of course the latest from the football stadium of. light from many clubs over the years so i know the guy even so i got. the ball
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isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager will be their own it's expected to do twenty million why. it's an experience like nothing else only because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful day migrate to what will transpire. going to. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to the deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the
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middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. nineteen seventy eight. to nineteen ninety nine i say a better executed. up of form sixty two next years and seventeen years. people that recommend the death penalty and interior judge if they had performed the execution i think that they were. in light a different story on given
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a definite it when. the united states is the last country in the developed west to execute criminals. about fifty percent of americans are for the death penalty and fifty. percent against it. our capital punishment system is flawed this is not a matter of vengeance it's a matter of just that we believe serves as a turn capital punishment is tainted by racial disparity having my father's killers executed did not bring me a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it should if you take
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a life should your life be taken and justice is about us as a society. one nine hundred eighty two was my first execution. i was a correctional officer. one of my main jobs were to save lives so when it came down to execution i had to transform myself into a person that would take a life. jerry givens was appointed executioner in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven when the united states reinstated the death penalty. he grew up in the housing projects of richmond virginia. and remembers one tragic night at a party. when i was a teenager i witness a young lady. shot down by my. i want to
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reward quite a young lady because. i was. told it was. my thing is that if a person take a life of about the person then that person's life should be taken and that's what i believe. gerry received training to operate the electric chair and later to administer lethal injections. he became chief executioner in one thousand nine hundred two. i would say my team members take pride in that work the preparations. getting this person brady plays make step in my prepare him just to see is key it's for the last time and. a last kiss of his mother says to me is a wife or daughter. with all of human you know in this is one human that had made a mistake and we had to carry out the orders. outside
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of his team of eight jerry told no one about his work as an executioner not even his wife. to keep it a secret and i kept it a secret from my my family. since one thousand nine hundred seventy seven other executioners across the united states have put over a thousand four hundred sixty people to death it's a punishment the supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. it was a gorgeous day it was a beautiful morning we met some friends and boston and. twenty three thousand runners and half a million spectators gathered for the boston marathon. karen brossard her
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husband and daughter which cheering a friend over the finish line. we were there for maybe ten or fifteen minutes all excited with the crowd watching everybody come through and suddenly it was this incredibly loud. explosion. was. seven of us there six of us were injured. one of our friends lost both of my legs that. i knew that my husband was pretty badly injured. my daughter. from her. and i had trapped.
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the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people killed three including krystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursued two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. six year old tamar alonzo meyer was killed in a shootout. again later he's captured the younger brother dzhokhar alive. over the next few months karen braun in their daughter like many of the bombing victims had to undergo multiple surgeries. i want to try to not let this. i'm not going to let this prevent me from living the
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life that i want to live. i'm not going to be afraid. later that summer karen traveled from a home in new hampshire to boston for czar naiads arraignment at the federal court . we were all seated together and he walked out he didn't look at any of us but his hand was obviously entered and my immediate response was i hope that her i hope it's possible. that was not like me. and the recognition of that about me was scared because that isn't who i am. have pled not guilty to all thirty counts seventeen punishable by death. the federal prosecutor asked victims if the u.s.
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should seek the death penalty. were i don't know i hear. i don't know. i don't know what justice is. i got an e-mail. terrorist acts or where much more common are the murders and other violent acts that happen every day across the united states. in philadelphia shannon schieber was finishing her first year of graduate school. she had been up studying it was early thursday morning before i would say it was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was prepared to go by. the assailant who attacked or. be pried open her sliding door. she screamed for help as she was being attacked.
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the next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. that. he told them that he heard his neighbor share a scream for help and he heard like a choking he said. the police arrived within twenty minutes they knocked on the door but no one answered. the next day when shannon didn't show up for a lunch date with her brother shawn he drove to her apartment building. all of its neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said i'm trying to reach my sister i can't reach her. the guy just would pale they say oh my god i called the police last night they were running up the steps they broke open her door and she
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was laying naked on her bed. by the time we got to philadelphia though the police were swarming the radley apartment building and they let us know immediately that she had been attacked and that she had been murdered. we were beginning to face the fact that part of us had died and i mean it hit us very quickly. i just remember a prince that we'd be able to gather to get through this. that weekend they attended mass. when we got to the
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lord's prayer. saying the lord's prayer out loud was a real confrontation. forgives christmas as we preserve those who trespass against us. i had to abandon something i had been saying. often probably thoughtlessly thousands of times over my over my work. and if anyone would have asked us well what would you want to do if you if you ever found who did this i didn't i just why be so angry i want i want him dead to maybe i don't know i never had this happen there was this so painful. eight days later she burst buried their twenty three year old daughter.
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politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to try to be for us this is like the full screen the more people that i'm interested always in the waters of politics. or sit. what does society do when someone commits a horrific act of violence. for centuries seeking justice was a community affair. and disproportionate blame fell on the poor mentally disabled and people of color. in the eighteen hundreds some capital offenses were
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targeted specifically at slaves the stablish in a racial bias that continues today. executions reached a historic peak in the one nine hundred thirty s. averaging one hundred sixty seven per year but then in one thousand thirty six. a gruesome execution caught the attention of the media. on august fourteenth in owensboro kentucky rainy the thea was publicly hanging by a white sheriff's many buck but the oh was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's festive saw prayerful black men put to death today and davies county's piton gallus . the outcry over rainy but he is hanging did not put an end to capital punishment instead it drove executions behind prison
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walls out of public view. state officials built death houses and institutionalized the practice. it's a death by far it's a scripted death in the beginning it was hanging it was not only hanging but it was public and so you see the crowds come in and bring in a picnic lunch and celebrating then we move from hanging to the electric chair and then we began to have the horror stories that happened out of the electric chair. and then has been a move to lethal injection. and lethal injection is likely going medicinal so that will just be putting them to sleep. but not everyone agrees. the idea that they should go out in an opiate haze that it should be a pleasant that is absolutely perverse. the debate about the death penalty has become increasingly polarized and politicized we want
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a system that they are we want a system that respects the dignity of human beings the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying and there was just no way that we hadn't and that we were some people kill with an attitude so callous heinous sadistic that they have forfeited their right to live i believe in a turn of one and that is when we execute this person we know he will never kill again why is it that the death penalty really comes down to in many cases just where you live who your d.n.a. is we cannot recognize injustice when we see it at people and not being treated fairly and people not getting a fair shot you can be critical because you can be critical of the idea that the government has the right to kill and also hold passion and concern for victims maybe in some books of justice the person for this act deserves to die but do we as
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a society deserve to kill them. today capital punishment largely falls to the state in which the crime was committed. and laws and methods vary widely. most states use lethal injection. but some still use gas chambers. the electric chair. hanging. and firing squad. carrying out the death penalty is intrusted to specially trained guards like jerry givens. of the sixty two executions the jerries conducted thirty seven were by electrocution and twenty five by lethal injection. lethal injection is
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considered the more humane form but for jerry it made the job of killing another person a lot tougher. when you talk about execution and electrocution is a button you push and washing push a button. the current flows in the car and the current comes out and. that's all i had to do was push a button. but when it come down to death by lethal injection you have seven to. a chemicals. you have four flushes and three deadly chemicals that is inserted into this man and. my self as the execution i am at the end of it's a rant. i'm pushing a poison. down a tune into the body so i'm more attach to this person then it is pushing a button and release and then they let the current flow by itself. fifteen days
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prior to an execution the condemned would be moved to the death chamber where gerry and his team worked. all nine of us were executions and report that a good execution that was stood by. the preparation was mental as well as physical we practice and practice and practice prior to the execution. each of us knew our jobs out sign it and we never allow ourselves to get that close to anyone you know we train for that we train this way you don't get that close to . the day of the execution. twenty four hours prior to that we we have a call a death watch. a guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. this is the sale when
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to condemn space. this is where the warden read his death warrant his clergy person. sit with him. doing this course and then they condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. by six o'clock hour preparations in the stocks into the inmate is placed a day. at home in new hampshire karen and her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not so much for wasm physical abilities things like. specially for me my
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rose colored glasses you know. just the reality. people are different. things are not the same. when even with one and i. different. working through things and i'm working through things. it had been six months since the bombing and karen had not yet seen her good friend celeste who was with them at the finish line and lost both her legs in the beginning. initially i i couldn't bring myself. to believe that. because i dealt with thank you.
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celeste and sixteen others lost limbs that day. ron was one of the lucky ones doctors were able to save his leg but the trauma and pain still lingered. we're going to have to work for a long time to get to the new normal whatever that's going to be. after months of deliberation attorney general eric holder announced the u.s. would seek the death penalty. the defense will argue that zocor was pressured into it by his older brother that he was a popular well liked college kid led astray. you know it's going to help responsible and i agree and i and i'm to believe that. but i also thank you. i just can't stoop and.
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and. karen son was the same age is no car. didn't seem like such a hard decision when it was abstract. you know i've got family and friends who are very religious and don't believe in it and that i have others who just say. it's the right thing to do they're so sure. i don't know that it's right for me to make that decision to take someone else's life. in philadelphia shannon's killer was still on the loose. the she worst pressed france or so but the police had none. it's just like you're in a coma you mean you're just like walking through something but you you don't know
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exactly how you're going to deal with them how am i ever ever going to get through this. this is tremendous sense of loss. and you know for some time i could visualize feeling that walking through a door just walking in the house and walking through the door seeing our dog at the bed she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always would come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference. sharon was. living many things. she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loved shana everybody loved her she was a little extreme way moving over. in their grief vicki and still turn to each other and reached out for support. it just takes time and doesn't you know
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everybody goes down a different path in a different time line to this journey toward healing they begin attending support meetings for families of murder victims. there they saw the devastating toll of sorrow and anger. the father of one of the murdered daughters we know well took his first drink and he never stopped for a year and she lost his job and marriage. but welch's daughter was one of one hundred sixty six people killed in the timothy mcveigh bombing of oklahoma city. one night about a year later he woke up in the morning and he had this dream and his daughter julie was there telling him dad had he murdered me are you going to let him murder her family. also saw the high price people paid for putting their lives on hold as they waited for an execution. we start finding out what murder victims' families go through if you decide to say look i want that man execute it would take fifteen
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twenty years this much longer for it actually to happen and we just saw the effects that this had on these family members we saw it destroying their lives. argentina venezuela they are mad about that point because they're commies are in freefall those are peripheral currencies when you have a major currency like the dollar the yen the euro the pound enter a similar crisis which i believe will happen you'll have that adoption rate in those countries wall spike as well as a psuedo store of value as a way to preserve wealth because the banking system is completely unsustainable it will not exist as we understand it in ten years time it will not exist central banks are an endangered species.
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today eleven a defeat for world cup has been fourteen goals with colombia eliminating poland and the last of sundays fixed. and it's been a day to remember thought. england and panama fans despite a heavy defeat. the tournament thing some two million fans come to celebrate football one brazil fun goes viral life in his new found passion for russia. to skew younger group. and in the weeks to other stories the e.u. leaders gather for an emergency summit on migration as the crisis.

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