joe reached out to his caseworker marie deans to see if anything could be done. i called mary in a panic and said i was. i don't know if this guy did or not but i don't think he did i'll make this god knows what's going on when early arrived at the death house he was handed over to jerry. i receive earl from mecum ber and when he came in i gave him a good turn to the infirmary he was given to complete this. 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 had led to the one through to your home you have a deeper hole we got with the he said he was getting really from. what i have been. and that became mother will no longer want me to go i go on you know laying on away. working day and night jo in memory secured

a rare stay of execution. marie was convinced that earl had been pressured into falsely confessing my work with mentally retarded defendants made me know that this was a what we would call a coerced confession whether it was course psychologically or when someone did you kill that woman no. but you told the police that you did. yes why did you tell the police that you did it. oh no 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 for ginia 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 site and said a prayer. a week later carolyn ron 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 fall 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 sent from shannon's case to fort coord.

the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married in. employed at an air force base. 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 a 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 schieber 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 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 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 principal. 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 after. sound out that he was he was innocent as it were out as that's as close calling you know he came of free in days and how to execute an innocent person. a criminal justice system spent posed to be the best and will. make those mistakes

and yet when you see a person like 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 deaths committed. but that's what every. six to two executions and the only kilobit 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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront a shim let it be an arms race is often spanning dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that's. strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you loan to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. this is crude oil either. so they need to actually physically pump it out of the ground you would have well well well well well.

there's a lot of money with the oil and with that comes. a lot of a lot of people from all over the country please. if you don't make a hundred thousand dollars a year. as a minimum there's an issue. here in the place they work well sixteen hours a day it's hard work well work it's not easy work and so they want to relieve their stress and how do they relieve their stress things and then move back out like he's mentally back comfort these many sacks. people have been murdered up here people didn't rape her. massive drug issues up here you have a bill you have everything else that comes along with money. on engine oil or. underwater

a. total wrong. or not he didn't. all. go to almost gets to move for you. 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 are naiads 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

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 with 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

sinai 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 this what was going on where was this background with to talk to his mother i can't stand who he was vicki located troy graves mother and gave her a call we're on the phone together for many many hours in tears just tear a sobbing with each other i said but just to understand what you are 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 through 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 of 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 money lets go of this is a bad danny's best 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 cause cos if they don't get their lawyers just all of a go and 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 give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite and we've been through this this isn't the way. you lose child porn you guys. are

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 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 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. 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 ellen 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 hope. and we are coming on the air because the jury deciding the fate of boston marathon bombers has reached a verdict. they have sentenced him to death. news of the verdict traveled fast that you 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 his breath and once the bird came in it was 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 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. jerry 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 earl's case you know a place 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 but 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 a chance to hit so i apologized for the name thanking the way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to visit her 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 mockingbird and i was in eighty five. i went to ritual for i was wearing st ok that's what it looked each year you know i won the world we're going to you know went through your mind not doing it he was innocent oh mamma he did the whole war yeah she's a bloody 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 whether he didn't do anything wrong. and also isn't it something that i would hesitate. but to see him crossing that bridge and to meet him and other innocent lives and if

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world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. you need to let the audience you need to let people decide the what is the relevant to them you don't need to filter he sell son john author salsa. answered himself he believed he knew better he believed he do with what the needs 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 author's been a gonzo journalist i've been a property to new age journalist how do you how do you not self censor 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 journals like the author. except someone for who they are not what you want them to be this is the advice of therapist might give to a couple in

a relationship crisis apply this wisdom to geopolitics and you'll see that trying to change the weakness of the other is the norm and geopolitical act. and learn to fully accept each other. you cannot operate as united nations this is not just one run but you n.d.p. world health organization and in fact other international organizations like the international committee of the red cross you cannot work in a place like gaza with pragmatic cooperation with the locals or to switch on hamas in this case here or has been for most of the last few years. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants.

crossing the most. simple they want to become lost. in the last post on this but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person to ask than call mom. policy to morrow. i then had to get them in a lot of class and that. they had a lot of the options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. the who he beat up to the. i said see it's trouble to many couples won't. deal with the put simply dimples and both from both of you out those of you with multiple. i don't have faith in this government official of president i don't have faith in the system. i'm too liberal the system is not designed for people like me

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i was. like the. us president donald trump to punish saudi arabia but the alleged involvement in the disappearance of a dissident journalist. with business brains on in washington common sense is stalled on protecting the billions of dollars at stake when it comes to real. as to whether or not we should stop one hundred ten billion dollars from being spent in this country knowing they have four or five alternatives two very good alternatives that would not be acceptable to bring. historic results could be the german state and various presidents prepared to take to the polls on sunday with the alternative to germany's policy on the verge of breaking new ground in the country. and a recent study finds.