why would they not want this. 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 her 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 that's as close

calling you know he came of in days in how to execute an innocent person. criminal justice system supposed to be the best in the world i don't think we 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 as a person guess committed almost but that's what it really.

sixty two executions and the only killer that akon seen was myself and i refuse to look into the mirror. she nearly took the life of her 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. seemed wrong why don't we all just all. the goal to get to shape out just to come to educate and engage because the trail.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. to pick. up enough of it. from the from. now she will be looking at the school this will. be talking to us about none of them i know. that ellen. did a lot of this is easy charity. and that a lot of what i think about. what i'm with up with him is art and i was up the money into the magazine with my unit. as head of the long long long i left my one moment. to say sitting. there will go

places is a long. haul that far should be made. for the people of the gulf coast i just. look at that. he. says. 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 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 to talk to his mother i can't stand who he was located troy graves mother and gave her a call were you were on the phone together for many many hours. mysterious happening with each other i said but just to understand what you were going there i want to share with you 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 yourself you know and she says oh this is she or i. agree of some other blamed herself for her son's actions and i said i don't think and when he 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 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. vickie 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 the ago not you know what he's going to 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 get the peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite and then for this this isn't their way if you lose child dies. hard 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 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 for 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. a minute suddenly a text from a clerk inside alerted her that the jury was close to a decision. we'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. actually breathe again you know without even realizing it all to crap at once and drinking it like now we can start here no point. knaves fate sealed karin 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 the paper they say the men that carry

out execution orders for this data been 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 fair. why me know all because i didn't see 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 napa earle'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 it tested so i apologize to the name thanking the way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to this era 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 mad and i was in a fog. i want to ritual follow swing through ok that's what it led to to hear you know i won the wood we're going to you know went through your mind not doing it he was innocent oh mama he did the whole war she was what did raise your blood get me through the kitchen 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 and to meet him and how the innocence of it. and if. you don't know because you want my shoe.

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know we're going to this. club doesn't cut doesn't it also toppi me my life. i seem on have to die. semifinalist the women also to pick up late now hons it will end up doll and keep the point about. finding a few of you would it be that easy to find a friend that i had in me. plus is that going to see muslims to people whom they. look at i thought it might have been my little bit of a wonder when i found out a little bit odd jobs at that out of money going to know about much of the way for the mob not to get it but it. says this is. bodies of the. sea.

the sea. you think. facebook has hundreds of pages groups and accounts linked to iran and russia for what it calls coordinated authentic behavior to allege the political meddling. trumps presidency looks increasingly precarious after two former associates were found guilty of numerous federal crimes. we speak in iraq hugo who escaped sexual and slave month by islamic states only to come face to face with her. in her new home in germany.

are you watching the weekly on r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins rather you are today welcome to the program. and now it's a weekly top stories facebook's offering the ante and its crusade against fake news on another buying spree in a bid to stamp out the phenomenon thereby limit efforts to sway political opinion you know has more. thanks for joining us millie but franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts doing 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 zax people 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 wot 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 my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe. will come to the us just for all the things they can do i. say 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. i mean while there is concern over facebook's latest

fall to tackle fake news which will involve evaluating users based on how trustworthy they are online it's an addition to the site's existing efforts to stem the spread of misinformation and other ideas to protect users from those who indiscriminately flag fake news as real and of course vice versa the system will even be used to predict which articles need fact checking based on a user's history of posting stories despite facebook boosting efforts to get rid of fake news there are still quite a few big questions about how this latest method will work like which users or even which countries will be 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 solves 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 now the c.e.o. of online privacy company crypto hippi outlined 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 the 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. 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. and 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 now the discussion about impeachment comes off the trump's campaign chairman pulled out of four was found guilty of numerous fraud charges his ex lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to presidential campaign finance violations and that simply paying hush money to trump's mistress is slandered the u.s. president in hot water cohen has implicated him as the orchestrator of the scheme at present the democrats are desperately keen to rake up as much muck as possible in the midterm elections or there's muck. 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 elections. the special counsel probe was initially launched to investigate alleged collusion with russia is only so far exposed to fraud and election campaign

violations. take the right here in which we got our company where is the closure you know there's still looking for closure where is there to lose your finds a delusion 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 this filings in maybe some violations of campaign finance laws. back to michael cohen now legal fees equal big costs the former lawyer has asked for donations to cover his defense is paying off too so far he's raised more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars in just three days as more than 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 feed the audience isn't it they don't know if they are ready to donate some people might be laughing but the cash is flowing and then there's peter strock the disgraced former f.b.i. agent who sent two truck messages to his mistress now he's raising money online he's already raised four hundred forty three thousand dollars hauffe a million dollars on a go fund me just for heating donald trump has cancer patients on that site that are like hey we hate him too can you pay for my treatments i know 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 athlete who 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 a rose i'm an adult 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 this year every single title on the new york times nonfiction best seller list has been a bad.