yes so winds go into his body he's taken out that he was innocent on his last words as last. 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 five tell society back then that he was innocent to get no one really paid no attention. in one nine hundred eighty three earl was arrested in cope up or virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed to so i old question by different. and i will use it as data. and they know i want to. 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 the cell. he's mentally retarded he couldn't read he couldn't write i walked in to the cell and canadian thing bang all the 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 dad again see the problems with mr. moti was an aide to see the mom would have 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 handcuffs shackles and then walk him out. led away drug him out and me everybody's banging on the door to hear that the proselyte ards. joe reached out to his caseworker marie deans to see if anything could be done. i called marie in a panic and said i was. out of this god did or not but i don't think you did all babies god knows what's going on when early arrived at the death house he was

handed over to jerry i received earl from mecum ber and when he came in i gave a good training to 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. you know how do you know how you are led to the one through to your home and you have a deeper hole we got with the he said he was getting really from. i have been. on that be a mother will no longer want me to go i go again knowing on a way. working day and night joe in moree secured a rare stay of execution. marie was convinced that earl had been pressured into falsely confessing my work with mentally retarded defendants and we know that this was a what we would call a coerced confession whether it was course psychologically when someone did you

kill that woman next. but you told the police that you did. yes why did you tell the police that you did it. i don't know you no no no you understand then that you were being. accused of a murder. they didn't understand most. new d.n.a. tests proved earl was not the murderer he was moved off death row but he remained in prison virginia 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 side and said a prayer. a week later karen in iran united with survivors at the two thousand and fourteen boston marathon. they cheered their friend celeste in a 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

paul judge will tool announced the trial would be held in boston. and 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 in 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 would there been a series of story there you blois fort collins colorado they put out a report to police agencies all across the united states. so they searched the from shannon's case to four told. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married and employed at an air force base. about eight o'clock that night twenty third day of april. two thousand and two. 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 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 at 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 . it 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 hubris said the death penalty was the appropriate sentence for their daughter's murder. why were they not one. for vicki instilled the answer was clear. we just can't let this anger is natural human anger and pain overwhelm us and make us so then fall and hateful because it would just over time destroy us and we know that. vicki and sil received piles of hate mail the qs ing 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 was it leads from death row that i found out that he was he was innocent as it were out that's as close calling you know he came within days and i would execute him as a person. our criminal justice system supposed to be the best in the world. make those mistakes and yet when you see the person my girl 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. you know don't make sense i don't want to be consider person committed. but that's what every. six to two executions and the only kill bit that could see was myself and i refused to look into the mirror. he 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. hillary clinton so civility can only return when the democrats are back in power former obama a.g. eric holder has coined a new phrase when they go low we kick them without a doubt both statements can be dismissed as political banter as the midterms loom but it would seem no one can claim in 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. we're divided. karen'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 you feel.

you really have to look at yourself. pretty hard to decide. as soon as vicki and sil learn 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 that you have to talk to his mother i want 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 mysterious sobbing with each other i said but i want just to understand what you were 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 your daughter. mother blamed herself for her son's actions and i said i don't understand what when he said she said it got more and more violent in our household and my kids would come to me and it say please mommy lets go of this is a bad daddy'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 stands like 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'll get the lawyers just all that i can go on 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 was the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what 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 child party dies whole in part and. so you have to you have to kind of learn to live with this hole in your heart. either we can continue to do well on it and then of 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 is 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 victims' 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. wait. suddenly a text from a clerk inside loaded her that the jury was close to a decision. and they're going to be coming out of it starting any time now i would prefer it be you know in 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 hope. and we are coming on the air because the jury deciding the fate of boston marathon bombers the horrors and i have has reached a verdict. they have sentenced him to death. news of the verdict traveled fast thing know that there is 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

holding your breath at once and her ticking 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 you see the men that 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 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 a place down 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 at 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 apologized for the name thanking the way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to visit europe 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 that's all you know one day i was a mother better than i was in eighty five. i went to ritual follow soaring through the oak that's what it looked each year you know i won the wood we're going to you know went through your mind not doing it he was innocent oh moema he did all we're

here she was what did raise your blood get me through. 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. one also isn't something that i would have to face. but to see him crossing that bridge into medium another is that if you have. him if. you don't know because you're my shoe.

it's been too many times when i've seen you know us to see each city's hospitals. seven the feeling being terrorists you know attacking civilians it's been terrible really i'm more hopeful now than i was a few months back and they have been deal. it was a glimmer of hope when in all of this. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants.

crossing most of us just a little simpleton what do we got most of them thrown i've won the last of us on the bus but as many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides the drifter used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person to ask than. o.c. to morrow i then had a press and i got them in a lot of class and the one that. they had to watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. also if he heard the t.v. about the deal. i said sit down both of many couples won't. kill the chance of putting food impulse response both of you out to to do it all of the. thank you very very hard. thank you.

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