when you hear a person going to his death be sticking out and he was innocent to the last serene's going to his body he's taken out that he was innocent on his last words as last. give me something that think about as execution and it place some doubt. there was one young man in particular washington jr. he was trying to 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 culpepper virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed do you see all of the question they will buy different . data. and they know of one quote. which call kept.

the death penalty. after intense questioning police officers. 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 that road to the site. ron and i and christie stopped at each site and said a prayer. a week later karen and ron united with survivors at the two thousand and fourteen boston marathon. they cheered their friend celeste and the 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 assaults started to you please fort collins colorado they put out a report to police agencies all across the u.s.

united states. so they said from shannon's case to fort cold. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married in. employed at an air force base. so about eight o'clock that night twenty third day of april. two thousand and two this fellow and 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 was 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 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 present and off 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 would they not want. for vicki in

cill the answer was clear. we just can't let this anger it's 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 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 or twenty executions at that girl who was released from death row that i found out that he was he was innocent as it wound as 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 get when you see a person like earl washington. something happened there. in the aftermath of the oklahoma city bombing in one. nine hundred ninety 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 a month. and a 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 only kilobit aca 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. in a world of big parts of the law and conspiracy it's time to wade to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each

other it's taught for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. you need to lead the audience you need to let people decide what is the relevance of them you don't need to filter the self censoring so john author self censored himself he believed he knew better he believed he do with what the names were of these folks and that self-censorship which is such a step in this is completely wrong and this is why we have been sleepwalking into the next financial crisis how john offers been a gonzo journalist i've been a property knew a journalist had he not self-centered himself as this next crisis unfolds people would be better prepared to deal with it but they won't be because of the failure

of fake journalist like an author. and your own pal and up come up out of a known fact that i am told paul enough. to know more i. am only. in film put in there is a trade in young girls sold into an underground six industry sometimes by the people they trust the most. time and. a cut of. one 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 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 zero cars are naive was unduly influenced by his older brother. the prosecutors would argue that he was fully responsible for his actions. many victims share 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. either we can continue to do well on it and john 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 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 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 alerted her that the jury was close to a decision. 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 that 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

that you know that there's 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 all the crap. once the burdekin and it's like now we can start here no point. with son lives 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 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 expose so i gotta come forward i got a camel why is this in the truth about. 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 an apple or earls case you know 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 you know i'm sorry but i'm glad

that things didn't go away and 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. i'm glad i didn't get a chance to hit so i am part of that scene think in the way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to visit her to talk with him face to face. and. though it had been many years jerry and earl swapped stories and quickly we discovered a shared past the. lie in one day i was a mockingbird and i was in

a defiler. i want to ritual for i was soaring through the oak that's what i'd like to chew yeah you know i won the woodwork but only you know went through your mind i don't know if you was innocent until my mom hit it all war and she aborted raise your blood get me from which are just. as is a good thing that i didn't give it you know because they have a way that made it into anything long. and also isn't something that i would add to face. but to see him crossing that bridge in to meet a man who isn't yours and if you have. him in. him you don't know because you want my shoe.

accept someone for who they are not what you want them to be this is the advice a therapist might give to a couple in a relationship crisis it apply this wisdom to geopolitics and you'll see that trying to change the weakness of the other. can geopolitical act. and learn to fully accept each other.

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