chief executioner jerry was here in the swear they were innocent. when you hear a person going to his death sticking out and he was innocent to the last survey is going to his body he's taken out that he was innocent on his last words as last. and give me something to think about as execution and it place some doubt there there was one young man in particular washington jr. he was try to tell society back in that he was innocent to get no one really paid no attention. in one thousand nine hundred three earl was arrested in culpepper virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed. a question by different. and will use it as datum. and they then know i want to quote

a model which call kept. the death penalty. after intense questioning police officers extracted a confession from earl for the brutal rape and stabbing murder of a one thousand year old mother of three. at his trial experts testified that earle had an i.q. of only sixty nine and was extremely suggestible casting doubt on his confession. despite inconclusive evidence the jury found guilty and the judge sentenced him to death. he was taken to mecklenburg a supermax prison in virginia. he was scared to death he was tempted he didn't want to come out of so. he's mentally retarded he can read he can

write i walk in to the cell and canadian thing bang all door come see what you want that was earl the whole time he was on the road he was. scared to have it. all as they were for me my mom barracking see the problems when mr. moti was an aide to see the mama would had me. two weeks before earl's date of execution the guards came to transport him to the death house in richmond. a charity mob put him in a way saying hank i shackles and they walk him out. literally drug him out and me everybody's banging on the door to hear that the casa guards. joe reached out to his caseworker marie deans to see if anything could be done. i

called marie in a panic and set out. all of this god or not but i don't think he did i'll break this god knows what's going on when early arrived at the death house he was handed over to jerry. i receive earl from mecum ber and when he came in i gave him a good trade into the infirmary he was given a complete physical. at that time we only had. death by electrocution chair so he didn't have a choice either her or you know you had led to the one through to your home and have a date with all we got was the he said he was getting really from. dental . and that deep game either will allow a woman to go out go into the knowing or no way. working day and night joe and marie secured

a rare stay of execution. marie was convinced that earle had been pressured into falsely confessing my work with mentally retarded defendants and i felt that this was a what we would call coerced confession whether it was course psychologically or. did you kill that woman no. but you told the police that you did. yes why did you tell the police that you did it. now or not you know no no you understand then that you were being. accused of a murder no sir you didn't understand that most. new d.n.a. tests proved earl was not the murderer he was moved off death row but he remained in prison for ginia law at the time did not allow the introduction of new evidence . gerry heard little about what

happened to earl his focus was on preparing for the next execution. one year after the boston marathon bombing a memorial service brought everyone together for the first time. when we walked. down the road to the site. ron and i and christie stopped at each site and said a prayer. a week later carolyn run united with survivors at the two thousand and fourteen boston marathon. they cheered their friend celeste in the symbolic run across the finish line. i am angry at what he did and when i see my friends and they struggle and i

see other survivors. i don't want my decision to be based on how angry i get in those instances. that fall judge will tool announced the trial would be held in boston. but we have two choices we can either let him stay alive and have his interaction and have his joys. or put him to death and have that be the end of it. they don't get to see their little boy playing baseball anymore or reading him a story at night and this young man is in jail and he's reading stories that he likes he's got books available to him that he enjoys or he meets with his sisters and gets to see pictures of their children growing up and i just don't

think it's fair that they have had their their joys taken away from them and he still is able to experience that. care and decided to attend the trial. i want to be there to see. justice. in philadelphia nearly four years after vicki instils daughter shannon was murdered the police got a lead. in two thousand and one there'd been a series of assaults started taking place in fort collins colorado they put out a report to police agencies all across the u.s. united states. said they in a from shannon's case to fort collins. the d.n.a.

was a match. the suspect was married and employed at an air force base. so about eight o'clock that night twenty third day of april. two thousand and two this fellow and his wife walked into the police station 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 out any other prosecutor in pennsylvania and probably any large number around the country. graves was found

guilty and the district attorney wanted the death penalty but the she bers did not . get 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 would we do if they ever caught a ball we would stick to our principles and if someone was going to want him 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 schieber said the death penalty was the appropriate sentence for their daughter's murder. why would they not want. for vicki in cill the answer was clear. we just can't let this anger this natural human anger and pain overwhelm us and make us so then full and hateful

because it would just over time destroy us and we know that. vicki and still received piles of hate mail the cues in them of not loving their daughter. you know if you can't stand by your principles when it's difficult they're not your principles. several years past before jerry learned that washington was not guilty. it had to be like fifteen or twenty executions at that girl who was released 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. a criminal justice system supposed 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 a dramatic increase in executions by one thousand nine hundred nine jerry was putting to death more than one person per month. and the death certificate reads. death by almost i. you know i don't make sense i don't want to be consider person deaths committed all messiah but that's what every. at the. sixty two executions and the only killer that aker seen was myself and i refused to look into the mirror. he nearly took the life of aurora 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. gypsy simply said he opened up and facing. him in the. hospital he would be useful if he. were talking to the still. doesn't know. how i was going up but i'll get it was only just me give you an idea. that a lot of what i think about tom and i skid but i'm about the same as art when i was

up the money into the magazine with me. taking money out of my hands how much. to say to me the i'll just call them so who has a long. long way to forgive me maybe for. other people more adult films i was on about because. it was a little bit about. i. feel. so. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent flies last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember it was one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. 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 or niam since the arraignment. inside the courtroom karin and the other survivors were seated just twenty feet away he refused to look at them. the defense team would make the case that so cars are najaf was unduly influenced by his older brother. the prosecutors would argue 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 was 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 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. karin'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 to 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 to talk to his mother i wanted to understand who he 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 i want just to understand what you are going there i want to share with 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 through a terrible time to wash your son and you know and she says oh this is schieber i murdered her daughter. mother blamed herself for her son's actions.

and i said i don't think what when he said she said it got more and more violent. and my kids would come to me and it's say please money lets go of this is a bad danny's bet 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 angry. vicki began meeting with inmates on death row. she discovered a system of victims on all sides we can 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 cost cost issues they don't get the lawyers just all that i can or not you know what you can 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 this isn't the way you lose chop or you guys. are and. so you have to you have to learn to live with this hole in your heart. either we can continue to do well on it and john to 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 to 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 victim's family members. in an ongoing tribute to the memory of their daughter vicki and still continue their efforts to end the death penalty. in boston nearly three weeks had passed since our nail 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.

for me and suddenly a text from a clerk inside alerted her that the jury was close to a decision. they're going to be coming al of it starting any time now i would prefer it be you know and that m.p. just because i think that's a fair thing that the right. as awful if that is. i think it's the just thing that's what i'm hoping. and we are coming on the air because the jury deciding the fate of boston marathon bombers are hard and i have has reached a verdict. they have sentenced him to death. news of the verdict traveled fast that you know that there is still a long road ahead but right now it feels like we can take a breath and trying to. actually breathe again you know without even realizing all the crap. once the burdekin and it's like now we can start here

don't point. was son lives fate sealed karen 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 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 gerry's long held secret about his role as executioner became public. they printed in the paper they say the man to carry out execution orders for this data but ginia was found guilty once i was out i mean i'm exposed so i gotta come forward i got a camel why is this in the truth about this here. why i didn't know all because i didn't know you and i 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 an apple or 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 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 but 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 at that take your life you know after i pad biden that's it. i'm glad i didn't get a chance to hit so i apologize team for the name thank in

a way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to visit her to talk with him face to face. though it had been many years jerry and earl swapped stories and quickly we discovered a shared custody. lie in one day i was a member and i was in a fight. i want to ritual follow soaring through ok that's what it led to two years you know i won the world we're going to you know went through your mind not doing it he was innocent oh mama hid it all we're here she was what did raise your blood get me through the kitchen you just. this is

a good thing that i didn't give it you know because i'll bring it to wed he didn't do anything wrong. and also isn't something that i would have to face. but to see him crossing that bridge in to meet him and others just is a bit of. a myth. you don't know because you're much too. it.

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