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 outreach. 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 to 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 best as a close call and you know he came within days and how to execute an innocent person . criminal justice system supposed to be the best and will. make those mistakes and yet when you see a person like ariel 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. the death certificate reads. death by almost i. you know i don't make sense i don't want to be consider that person deaths committed almost but that's what it really. at the. sixty two executions and the only kilobit that could see was myself and i refused to look into the mirror. he nearly took the life for a 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. finally in a town full non-surgical get out now how is it down to the point. lining you feel you would if you know you can even find a friend that i mean. is that don't yet see. people whom it. looks a lot that it might have been like a little bit about it but not that i little bit that we are shut out of many good little bad much of the woodwork of my life to get it but it. is

a lonely life. some bodies of the. same. as. you see. you can look over. nearly two years after the bombing the trial was about to. again. karin left her home in new hampshire early to arrive for the opening statements. it was the first time she had scenes are naive since the arraignment. inside the courtroom karen and the other survivors were seated just twenty feet away he refused to look at them. the defense team would make the case that zacarias 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 with where like a family but her husband ron stayed away. since the bombing run has changed 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 the federal jury convicted the hearts are naive 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 it 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 that 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 tear sobbing with each other i said but 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 to a terrible time to wash your son and you know and she says oh this is schieber i murdered your daughter. grooves mother blamed herself for her son's actions. and i said i don't think of what when he said she said it got more and more violent and i. and my kids would come to me and it's say please money let's 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 an 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 could just hear she and say mom and dad now that you know about the system the terrible flaws 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 we're going to do a bind. 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 enough we've been through this and this isn't the way

you loose 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 jenna well up the misery and sustain that misery. 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 in still continue their efforts to end the death penalty. in boston nearly three weeks had passed since our nails 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. you mean suddenly a text from a clerk inside glued her that the jury was close to a decision. that they're going to be coming out of it starting any time now i would

prefer it be you know and the death penalty just because i think that's a fair thing the right thing. is 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 but you know that there's still a long road ahead but right now it feels like we can take a breath and thank you. absent breathe again you know without even realizing all the crap and once the good came it was like now we can start here no point. with 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'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 a paper they say the man to carry out execution orders for this data but ginia was found guilty once and was out i mean i'm exposed so i gotta come forward i got to tell my wife is this in the truth about this here. why me know all because i didn't tell you i don't 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 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 after that take your life you know after i had biden that's it. i'm glad i didn't get a chance to hit so i apologize to the name thank in a way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to this era to talk with him face to face.

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also we speak to. germany and then left the meeting. and it is time for the weekly international just off to on sunday for me here welcome to your top stories. so facebook is upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for alleged allegedly trying to sway political opinion let's get some details on this now here's our correspondent in the apartment. thanks for joining us i believe that franco with your latest is in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts stealing fakes and propaganda from iran the

troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us of the by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook as well this facebook slash twitter online police rate is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook this time it banned six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the

reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zuck speak will they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook. the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am asking where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online

platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or a real news hound and i'm now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe. i come to the us just for all the things they can do i. may stay because of all the things they can well looks like online platforms will force us to adjust to a new reality where a step away from your genuine behavior may lead to a ban or some distinguished fact checkers will tell you who you should or shouldn't

trust so next time when he choose to complain about a post online think twice what if the fact checkers disagree in fact whatever you do they're better think twice. meanwhile there's concern of a facebook's latest tool to tackle fake news which will involve evaluating users based on how trustworthy they are online it's in addition to the site's existing efforts to stem the spread of misinformation the idea is to protect users from others who indiscriminately flag up fake news as real and advice of. the system will even be used to predict which articles need to fact checking based on the user's history of posting stories now despite facebook boosting its efforts to get rid of fake news there are still a few big questions about this latest method like which uses or which countries will be a part of the new fake news initiative it's also not known how the evaluations will affect individual users on the site or how the process will be monitored has put

facebook in the media firing line now but the social media giant insists it's not as bad as it sounds. we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and attempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our fight against misinformation is as effective as possible for the c.e.o. of online privacy company crypto hippi outline the ethical implications of facebook's practices. i think it's political pressure i think it really comes down to that they are putting themselves in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something that they really are grossly. incompetent to do and users primarily will not know what is being done to them and

they will be manipulated in all sorts of ways we don't know what kind of ways people need to understand that if you're using facebook you are not the customer you are the products and they are going to use you and every single way they can get away with because the better they use you the higher their stock price goes. talk of donald trump's possible impeachment took center stage in the u.s. media this week amid a scandal over two of his former associates can he be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and wolf we're in a watergate moment there is i think a lot for the president to fear the talk of impeachment comes off the trams x. campaign chairman pulled him out of ford was found guilty of numerous fraud charges and his ex lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to presidential campaign finance violations allegedly paying a hush money to trump's mistresses is landed the u.s.

president in hot water as cohen has implicated him as the orchestrator of the scheme. at present the democrats had this mini keen to rake up as much muck as possible in the midterm elections or there's not. all that much you can much as possible so the general public would be influenced by this in the run up to the november elections the special counsel probe was initially launched to investigate alleged collusion with russia but as so far only exposed fraud and election campaign by elations take the rashid which we got to hope the company where is the closure you know they're still looking for closure where is the closure finds a television the fact that they haven't come up with anything that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian

violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than mis filings and maybe some violations of campaign finance laws are now back to michael cohen now legal fees equal big costs before my lawyer has asked for donations to come to his defense and it's paying off as well he's raised over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in just three days that's kind of off interpol is not always bad business to be dismissed by the president. and donald trump was a host on the reality t.v. show the apprentice he really took the show's iconic catchphrase to heart you're fired you're fired you're fired. now that donald trump is the president getting fired by him isn't exactly a career setback take the case of michael cohen this is michael collins lawyer urging people to support michael cohen with an online fundraiser for hoping that he

will get some help from the american people so we can continue to feed the audience isn't it they don't know if they are ready to donate some people might be laughing but that is blowing and then there's peter struck the disk raced former f.b.i. agent who sent to trump messages to his mistress now he's raising money online he's already raised four hundred forty three thousand dollars half a million dollars on a go fund me just for hating donald trump this cancer patients on that site that are like hey we hate him too can you pay for my treatments like no you really hate him we could tell and then there's andrew mccabe the f.b.i. director who was fired without benefits now mccain has already managed to raise five hundred thirty nine thousand dollars this issue of him raising some money in order to pursue this you know that's one issue it's an ethical issue it's it's something that.