and remembers one tragic night at a party. when i was a teenager i witness a young lady. i want to dance with a young lady because. i was. told if. my being is that if a person take a life of about a person in that person's life taken and asked what i believe. gerry received training to operate the electric chair and later to administer a lethal injections. he became chief executioner in one thousand nine hundred two. i would say my team members take pride in the work that preparations. get in this person brady always makes step in my prepare him just to see is he it's for the last time with. a last kiss of his mother sister of amy's wife or daughter

. and 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. keep it 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 one thousand four hundred sixty people to death it's a punishment that's supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. it was a gorgeous day it was a beautiful on one. we met some friends in boston.

twenty three thousand runners and half a million spectators first year of graduate school. she had been up studying it was early thursday morning therefore i would say it was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was preparing to take a bath. the assailant who attacked her. he pried open her sliding door. she screamed for help as she was being attacked. the next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. 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 shawn 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. the guy i just went 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 voted off even though the police were swarming around the

apartment building and they let us know immediately that she had been attacked 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 the prince that we'd be able to gather to get through this. that. weekend they attended mass. when we got to the lord's prayer. saying the lord's prayer was a real confrontation. versus as we preserve those who trespass against us. i had to abandon. something i had been saying. often probably thoughtlessly thousands of times for more. and if

anyone would have asked us well 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 is so painful. eight days later that she burst buried their twenty three year old daughter. join me every thursday on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. except 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 the trying

to change the weakness of the other is the norm and geopolitical act ideology aside and learn to fully accept each other. on your own pal dot com not that. i am john paul enough. back in from kern there is a trade in young girls sold into an underground sex industry sometimes by the people they trust the most. at the thought of.

what 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 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 rainey the thea was publicly hanged by a white sheriff many thought that was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's

best of saw prayerful black men put to death today and davies county's piton gallus . the outcry over rainy but he 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 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 the 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

. in this course of the day they condemn is given a shower his last meal his last visitations. by six o'clock hour preparations of the stocks and to the inmate his place today. at home in new hampshire karen and her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not some much for wasm 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. are. working through things and i'm working through things and. 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 lingered. 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. be held responsible and i agree and i and i am to believe that. but i also thank you. just can't stoop and. 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 they're that i have others who just say. it's the right thing until 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 press transfers 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 it's a wall in you know for some time i could visualize shayla or walking through

a door squawking in the house and walking through the door seeing our doctor and she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always would come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference. sharon was living many things but she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loved shannon everybody loved her she was an extremely loving daughter. in their grief they can 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

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