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 and have a deeper hole we got with the he said he was getting really from. i have been. on that big game mother will no longer want me to go i go again knowing or no way. working day and night joe and marie 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 coerced confession whether it was course psychologically or when someone did you kill that woman nokes. but you told the police that you did it. why did you tell the police that you did it. how. do you know that those

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 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 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. karen 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 and would there been a series of assaults started to your place of fort collins colorado they put out a report to police agencies all across the united states. so they sent from shannon's case to fort collins. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married and employed and therefore space. 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 purty 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 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 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 i found out that he was he was innocent as it were out 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 and yet when you see a person like earl washington. something happened. 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 i guess is up here you have a very you have everything else that comes along with money.

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 zone cars are naive 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 was where like a family. but her husband ron stayed away. since the bombing run has changed 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 her native guilty of all charges now they would decide

if he should be put to death. the survivors were 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 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 to i want to know why i wonder stan what he did why was this going forward like that what was going on where was his background with that to talk to his mother i don't understand who he was vickie

located troy graves mother and gave her a call we're we're we're on the phone together for many many hours. to steer a sopping with each other i said but 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 watch just you know and she says oh this is she or i. grieve 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 and i. and my kids would come to me and it's say please money let's go this is a bad danny's bet 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 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 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 enough we've been through this and this isn't the way you loose child porn you guys hole in heart 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 then of well up the misery and sustain that misery. that we incurred because of what was going on or we can we can try and force things to change the extent we can they counter 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 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 nail 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 alerted her that the jury was close to a decision. they're going to be coming out of it starting any time now and i would prefer it be 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 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 bird came and it's 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 jerry'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 the state of virginia was found guilty once i was out i mean

i'm exposed so i gotta come forward i got them all why is this in the truth about. here. why i didn't 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 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 will say oh 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 this side because i can apologize to you after that take your life you know after i had biden thats it. i'm glad i didn't get a chance to hit so i apologize to me and and thank in a way i thought she was guilty. jerry decided to this era to talk with him face to face.

though it had been many years jerry and earl swapped stories and quickly we discovered a shared past that's all you know one day i was a mockingbird and i was in a fire. i want to ritual for i was wearing st ok that's what it led to cheer yeah you know i won the world we're going to you know went through your mind i don't want it you was innocent oh ma ma hit it all warm yeah she aborted 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 it made it into anything long. and also isn't something that i would head to face. but to see him crossing that bridge and to meet him and how that isn't yours and if you have. him that. you don't know because you want my shoe.

excuse. except someone for who they are 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. side and learn to fully accept each other. this is crude oil. soon they need to actually physically pump it out of. you would have well well. there's a lot of money with joy and with that comes. a lot of a lot of people from all over the country. if you don't make

a hundred thousand dollars a year. as a minimum there's an issue. here in the. they were all sixty 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 moved back out. that comfort many. people have been murdered up here people been raped there are massive drug issues up here you have a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. and you'll bump out. i know that. will i. am. in

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