the federal prosecutor asked victims if the u.s. should seek the death penalty. i don't know i hear. i don't know. i don't know what justice is. i got. 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 before 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 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 they say oh 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 the radley apartment building and they let us know immediately that she had been in terror 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 a 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. say the lord's prayer out loud was a real confrontation. forgives 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 door. 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.

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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 prayerful black men 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 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 luncheon celebrating then we move from hanging to the electric chair and then we began to hammer the horror stories that happened out of 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. 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 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 were some people kill with an attitude so callous heinous sadistic that forfeited their right to live i believe in the term 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 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 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. because it flows in the car and the current comes out and. that's all i had to do was to 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 an execution i'm at the end of it's a rant. i'm pushing a poison. down the tomb and to 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 by itself. 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 our sonnet 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 death watch. a guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. this is the sale whether condemned sperry's. misses when the warden readers don't want his clergy person. to sit with him. doing this course of the day to condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. by six o'clock hour preparations in the stocks and to the inmate is placed a day. at

home in new hampshire karen and her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not so much the lost of 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 ron and i. he's 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 so. because i doubt. 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 lifetime to get to bear 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. and i agree and i thank him. but i also thank you. just can't still pending. karen son was the same age is no 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 she worst pressed france or so 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. and 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 bad 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. but she had a tremendous appetite. for learning everybody loves shannon everybody loved her she was a little extreme way over and over. in their grief vicki and still turn to each other and reached out for support. this 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. the father of one of the murdered daughters we know well took his first drink and he never stopped for a year and she lost his job and marriage. but well just 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. 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 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. to forgive him but he said he opened up a basic belief in the. now single he would be useful if.

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i cause common features. almost of flight. as of last summer buying from the future truck car wash guys are just. facebook has banned hundreds of pages groups and accounts links to iran and russia all points toward a name to an authentic behavior including alleged political meddling. donald trump's presidency is now looking increasingly for carry it after two former associates were found guilty of numerous federal crimes. and we speak to a year's diddy girl who escaped sexual enslavement fires lab mix data but then left germany after meeting her eyes the cops and rapists there.

a warm welcome you're watching the weekend here on r.t. international all the latest headlines and the stories that have shaped the week. first facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news is gone on another banning spree in a bid to stamp out the phenomenon and thereby limit efforts to sway political opinion. explains. thanks for joining us millie but frank this news in the world of social this news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts schooling 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 the us of those by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been

exposed to russian vaults and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook 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 bad 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 in offensive 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. ask her 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 thinking well it 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. well meanwhile there is concern over facebook's

latest told to tackle fake news which will involve evaluating users based on how trustworthy they are online in addition to the science existing efforts to stem the spread of misinformation the idea is to protect users from others who indiscriminately flag up fake news is real and vice versa the system will even be used to predict which articles need fact checking based on that uses history of posting stories where despite a facebook boosting its efforts to get rid of fake news there are still quite 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 it's put facebook in the media firing line 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 the c.e.o. of online privacy company crypto hippi outlines the ethical implications of facebook's policies. 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 or sorts of ways we don't know what kind of ways 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 but there is i think a lot for the president to fear there's talk of impeachment comes after trump's ex campaign chairman paul monophysites was found guilty of numerous fraud charges and his acts lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to presidential campaign finance violations allegedly paying hush money to trump's mistresses has landed the u.s. president in hot water as cohen has implicated him as the orchestrator of the scheme but president the democrats are desperately keen to rake up as much muck as possible in the midterm elections or there's mark. all that muck you can and as much as possible so the general public will be influenced by this in the run up through the november election. a special council probe was initially launched to

investigate alleged collusion with russia but has so far only exposed rode on the election campaign violations take dues out of the rashid which we got to hope the company where is the closure you know they're still looking for closure where it's like to lose your finds a killers or 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 and a grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than this filings and maybe some violations of campaign finance laws. back to michael cohen now legal fees equal big toasts the former lawyer has also been donations to cover his defense i mean it's paid off to he's raised over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in three days it's kind of local reports it's 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 be 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 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 has cancer patients on the side 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 mckay 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 ask the core issue it's it's something that you know doesn't reflect good character and if you want to get more creative than crowdfunding you can always write a book i'm rosa manigault newman's new book unhinged tells stories from inside the white house thirty four thousand copies were sold within the first ten days and before on the rose it was james komi the fired f.b.i. director now he wrote a book about donald trump and within the first week six hundred thousand copies flew off the shelf writing books about donald trump is a smart move.