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as in the seventeen years. people that recommend the dept and engineering to judge if they had to perform the execution i think that they will. lie the difference noyon given a definite it will. 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 and it's

a matter of just that 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 an issue that if you took a life should your life be taken and justice is about us as a society. nine hundred eighty two was my first execution. i was a correctional officer. one of my main jobs were to save the 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. quote a young lady because. i was. told it was. my thing is that if a person take a life of about a person and that person's life should be taken and that's what i believe. jerry 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 the work that preparations. get in this person brady place 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 of amy's wife or daughter. and 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 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 one thousand four hundred sixty people to die. it's a punishment the supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. it was

a gorgeous day it was in fear to fall on 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 for 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. there were seven of us there six of us were injured. one of our 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 both my legs. the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people and killed three including krystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursue two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. the six year old tamar lands on i was killed in a shoe. again later police 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'm 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. what later that summer karen traveled from a home in new hampshire to boston resigned i observe rayment 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 painful. badness 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 don't know what justice is i got an email. 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 but she was being attacked. the next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. of them but. he told them 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. for lucy

and its neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said i'm trying to reach my sister or i can't reach you. the guy just would pale so my god i called the police last night they went running up the steps they broke open her door and she was laying naked on her bed. by the time we got voted off even though 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. when we got to the lord's prayer. say the lord's prayer out loud was a real confrontation yooper goes out trespasses as we preserve the others which are a specific instance. i had to abandon something i had been saying. often probably thoughtlessly thousands of tires over my over my life. 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 to i'd 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 all. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present in church. or somehow want to be rich. what's it like to be cross it's like the force treat all the people that. i'm interested always in the lawyers in this. case should. you know world big partisan movie locks 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 bats 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. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to

remember is one in one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. 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 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 aug fourteenth in owensboro kentucky raney the thea was publicly hanged by a white sheriff's many thought but the oh was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's festive saw a prayerful black man put to death today and davies county's piton gallus. the outcry over rainy bothy 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's

a death by formula 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 luncheon celebrating then we move 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 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 death is absolutely perverse the debate about the death penalty has become increasingly polarized and politicized we want a system that's fair 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 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 but yeah 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 is serves 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 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 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 the button. to cut for those in the car and the current arms 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 each syringe i'm pushing the poison. down to 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 wide self. fifteen days 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 reprotect

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 when we have a call a deathwatch. a guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. this is the sale whether condemned sperry's. this is where the warden read

his death warrant his clergy person. with him. doing this course of the day to condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. by six o'clock our preparations were stopped into the inmate is placed to death. at home in new hampshire karen and her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not so much the physical abilities things like. specially for me my 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 it. 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 their 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 am to believe that. but i also thank you. just can't stoop and. karen son was the same age is no car. didn't seem like such

a hard decision when it was abstract. you know our family and friends who are very religious and don't believe. 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 she worst 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 loss

in you know for some time i could visualize feeling they're walking through a door squawking in the house and walking through a door saying are daugherty 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. sharon was a little mini thing she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loves 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. just takes time and doesn't you know everybody goes down a different path at 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. but the father of one of the murdered daughters we know well took his first drink and he never stopped for a year and then 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 dad he 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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