i have a different story on giving a definite go in a. way . to night it 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 the best that we believe serves as a deterrent 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 to manage

a few to go live should your life be taken 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 paul my. i want to

reward quite a young lady because. i was. told it was. my thing is that if a person take a life of about a person in that person's life should be taken and asked 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 their work their preparations. getting this person and ready for his next step in life prepare him just to see is he it's for the last time with. a last kiss of his mother sister amy's wife or daughter. we all of human you know and this is one human that had made a mistake and we had to carry out the orders.

outside of his team of eight jury told no one about his work as an executioner not even his wife. we'll keep. 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 in boston and. twenty three thousand runners and half a million spectators gathered for the boston marathon. karen brossard her

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 the suddenly it was this incredibly loud. explosion. there were seven of us there six of us were injured. one of their friends lost both of my legs that. i knew that my husband was pretty badly injured. my daughter had shrapnel from her hip. and i had trapped.

the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people and killed three including krystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursuit two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. yat. twenty six year old tamar alonzo meyer was killed in a shoot a. day later police captured the younger brother dzhokhar alive. cool. over the next few months karen braun in their daughter like many of the bombing victims had to undergo multiple surgeries. going to try to not let this change who i am i'm not going to let this prevent me from living the

life that i want to live. i'm not going to be afraid. one later that summer karen traveled from a home in new hampshire to boston for star ny observer a mint 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 pople. not like me. and the recognition of that about me was scared because that isn't who i am. native pled not guilty to all thirty counts seventeen punishable by death. the federal prosecutor asked victims if the u.s.

should seek the death penalty. i don't know. i don't know. i. i don't know what justice or. terrorist acts are rare 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 therefore i would say it was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was preparing to take a bath. the assailant who who attacked her. he pried open her sliding door. she screamed for help as she was being attacked

the next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. that's what. he told him that he heard his neighbor say 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 shyness neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said i'm trying to reach my sister i can't reach you. the guy just would pale so my god i called the police last night they were running up the steps they broke open her door and she was

laying naked on her bed. by the time we got to philadelphia the police were swarming the red the 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 the prince that we'd be able to gather to get through this. that weekend they attended mass. and

when we got to the lord's prayer. saying the lord's prayer out loud was a real confrontation. gives us trespasses as we preserve those who trespass against him. i had to abandon something i had been saying. often probably thoughtlessly thousands of times over my over my life. and if anyone would have asked us 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 it was just so painful. eight days later that she burst buried their twenty three year old daughter.

it was it was like and weak. player if. you didn't get. to get somebody said. something up and then basically it was in the. us it will be reviewed this is who you are talking to this. girl not going to. get it will only get you excited. and that a lot of it i think about how not i skid but i'm about the same as i can get a lot of us up the money into the magazine but i'm going to. tell you the long long

long i left my son's home and. just say. that they're all right so this is a long. long way for much of you made. other people more adult films i was on the. look out at that. you know world big partisan group that says a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time. for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now

for watching closely watching the hawks. what to 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 targeted specifically at slaves establishing 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 aug fourteenth in owensboro kentucky rainey the thea was publicly hanged by a white sheriff's many but but the oh was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's best of saw prayerful black men put to death today and davies county's piton gallows. the outcry over rainy but he is hanging did not put an end to capital punishment instead it drove executions behind prison walls out of public view. state officials built death houses and institutionalized the practice. it said death by farming it's. scripted 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 a picnic lunch and celebrating then we moved from hanging to the electric chair and then we began to hammer 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 we'll just be putting them to sleep. but not everyone agrees. with 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 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 want some people kill with an attitude so callous

heinous sadistic that they have forfeited their right to live i believe in the 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 where you live who your d.n.a. is we cannot recognize injustice when we feel at people and not being treated fairly and people not getting a fair shot you can be critical but you can be critical of the idea that the government has the right to kill. and also hold compassion and concern for victims maybe in some books of justice the person for this act deserves to die but do we as 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 squads. 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 considered the more humane form but for jerry that 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 the button. the current flows in and then the

cat 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 tubes. a chemicals. you have four flushes and three deadly chemicals that is inserted into this man and my self as the executioner i'm at the end of each the re and. i'm pushing the poison. down to two into the body so i'm more attach to this person then it is pushing a button then release and then they let the current flow by itself fifteen days prior to an execution the condemned would be moved to the death chamber where jerry and his team worked. all nine of us were executions and reprotect

a good excuse and that's what we stood by. the preparation was mental as well as physical we practice and practice and practice prior to execution. each of us knew our jobs sign it and would 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 deathwatch. a guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. this is this a a way to condemn sperry's. this is where the warden really is don't want these clergy person. so with him.

doing this course of the day to condemn is given a shower his last meal his last visitations. by six o'clock hour preparations were stopped into the inmate is placed today. at home in new hampshire karen and her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not some much the loss of physical abilities things like. specially for me my rose colored glasses you know. just the reality. that. people are. different. things are

not the same. when even with one and i. are 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 do that so. because i felt. 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 new normal whatever that 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 be held responsible and i agree and i and i do believe that . but i also thank you and i. just can't stoop and. karen son was the same age as the 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 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 shivers pressed for answers 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 exactly how you're going to deal with them how am i ever ever going to get through this. this is tremendous sense of law. and you know for some time i could visualize feeling that walking through

a door squawking in the house and walking through the door seeing our doctor and she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always we come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference. and was. living many things. we shared a tremendous appetite for learning everybody love santa and everybody loved her she was an extremely loving daughter. in their grief vicki and still turn to each other and reached out for support. it just takes time and doesn't you know everybody goes down a different path in a different time line to this journey toward healing 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 or hear him 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 him murdered me are you going to let him murder whole family. this year 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 at i want that man executed it would take fifteen twenty years as 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 .

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seems wrong but all in all just don't call. me old yet to say proud just to become an advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it means to live the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict respond dennison the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying news

just moon hasn't been that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. we have no idea what so if he's doing on the vacation but she will be back on air in september.

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