eight in young girls sold into an underground sex industry sometimes by the people they trust but most. added. a. nineteen seventy eight. to ninety nine and nine i said better execution. opera form sixty next years and the seventy years. people that recommend the death penalty and in theory the judge if they had

performed the execution i think that. in light a different story on given the depth and it would go into. the united states is the last country in the developed west to execute criminals. about fifty percent of americans are for the death penalty and fifty percent against it. our capital punishment system is flawed this is not a matter of vengeance it's a matter of just that we believe serves as a deterrent capital punishment is tainted by racial disparities having my father's

killers executed did not bring me a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it an issue if you tickle life should your life be taken justice is about us as a society. one nine hundred eighty two was my first execution. i was a correctional officer. one of my main jobs were to save lives so when it came down to execution i had to transform myself into a person that would take a life. jerry givens was appointed executioner in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven when the united states reinstated the death penalty. he grew up in the housing projects of richmond virginia. and remembers one tragic night at a party. when i was a teenager i witness

a young lady. shot to death by paul my. i want to being quite a young lady because. i was. told if. my thing is that if a person take a life of about a person and that person's life should be taken and that's what i believe. jerry received training to operate the electric chair and later to administer lethal injections. he became chief executioner in one thousand nine hundred two. i would say my team members take pride in their work their preparations. getting this person and ready for his next step in life prepare him just to see is he it's for the last time or. a last kiss of his mother sister amy is a wife or daughter. with all of human you know and this is

one human that had made a mistake and we had to carry out the orders. outside of this team of eight jerry told no one about his work as an executioner not even his wife. we were keeping. a secret and i kept it a secret from my my family. since one thousand nine hundred seventy seven other executioners across the united states have 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 it was a beautiful 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 suddenly it was this incredibly loud. explosion. seven of us there six of us were injured. one of our dear friends lost both of my legs that. i knew that my husband was pretty badly injured . my daughter had shrapnel from her hip.

and i had trapped both my legs. the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people and killed three including krystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursuit two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. twenty six year old tamar alonzo meyer was killed in a shoot a. day later police captured the younger brother dzhokhar a life. over the next few months karen braun 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 the 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 star ny observer a 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. not like me. and the recognition of that about me was scared because that isn't who i am. pled not guilty to all thirty counts

seventeen punishable by death. the federal prosecutor asked victims if the us should seek the death penalty. i don't know. i don't know. i. don't know what justice is. terrorist acts are rare much more common are the murders and other violent acts that happen more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door . and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. 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 much virtue and civility in this environment. it's been too many times when i'm sitting in you know dog besieged cities plus but those. civilians. terrorists you know attacking. civilians has been terrible lately i'm more hopeful now than i was a few months back and the deal was

a glimmer of hope and in in the end all of this. this is crude oil. they hate actually physically can't get out of the grass he would have well well well well well well. a lot of money and with that comes. a lot of a lot of people from all over the country. who don't make a hundred thousand dollars a year. as a minimum british. period. they were all six dollars a day hard work well work is not easy. and so they want to relieve their stress and

how do they relieve their stress these men move back out like he's the man that comfort these many. people have been murdered up here people can raise their massive drug issues up here give a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. 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 eight hundred hundreds some capital offenses were targeted specifically at slaves the stablish in the 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. gruesome execution caught the attention of the media. on august fourteenth in owensboro kentucky. the thea was publicly have. by a white sheriff 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 formula 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. 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 just where you live who your d.n.a. is we cannot recognize injustice when we see at people of 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 may be 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 current comes out. and that's all i had to do was 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 the execution i'm at the end of it's a rant i'm pushing a poison. down a tune into the body so i'm more attach to this person then it is pushing a button and release and then they let the current for a wide elf. 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 report that 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 out sign it and we 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 when we have a call a duck watch. a guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. this is this a a way to condemn sperry's. this is where the warden read

his death warrant these clergy person sit with him. doing this course and then they 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 today. at home in new hampshire karen in her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not some much for wasm physical abilities things like. especially for me my rose colored glasses you know. just the reality.

people are. different things are not the same. when even with one and i. who are working through things and i'm working through things that. 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 planning. initially i. i couldn't bring myself. to believe it. because i dealt. with with. 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 linger. we're

going to have to work for a long time to get to 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 the car was pressured into it by his older brother that he was a popular well liked college kid led astray. you know it's going to be held responsible and i agree and i and i am to believe that. but i also thank you. just can't stupid. karen son was the same age as the 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. don't believe. that i have others who just 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 shivers pressed for answers 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 law

in you know for some time i could those who are feeling they're walking through a door squawking in their house and walking through the door saying our doctor and she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference. sharon was. living many things she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loved shannon everybody loved her she was an extremely loving daughter. in their grief they key 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 in 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 then 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 destroying their lives. with no make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. when the final merry go round if suddenly the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million more you leave room for. the ways of the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing their fingers to us that there was

a simple i want you we got most of them turned out on the last time to stop us but i think many of them look for refuge in the so-called century sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person to.