prepare him just to see is key it's for the last time with. a last kiss of his mother. his wife and daughter. all a human you know in this is one human that had made a mistake. 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. we would keep it a secret and i kept it a secret from my my family. since one thousand nine hundred seventy seven. executioners across the united states put over a thousand four hundred sixty people to death it's a punishment supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst.

it was a gorgeous day everyone feared 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 about four injured. one of their friends last boat. i legs that. i knew that my husband was

pretty badly injured. my daughter had shrapnel from her hips your feet. and i had trapped knowing both my legs. the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people killed three including krystal campbell the loo and eight year old martin richard. police pursue two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. twenty six year old tamar alonzo meyer was killed in a shootout. again later police captured the younger brother dzhokhar alive. cool.

over the next few months karen brown 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 a 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 certain i have serene meant 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. 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 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. but. 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 sean he drove 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 your. 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 though the police were swarming around 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. saying the lord's prayer out loud was a real confrontation. gives us trespasses 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 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. chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shake out just because to add to it and in gaining strength equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instance of public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time to ignore middle of the road signals. the real news is really for. 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 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 of 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 prayerful black men put to death today and davies county's piton gallus . the outcry over rainey 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'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 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 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 where you live who you're doing areas 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 and 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 a button the current flows in and the attack comes out. and that's all i had to do was to push a button. but when it come down to buy me things action you have seven tunes. 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 the rant 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 we never allow ourselves to get that close to anyone 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.