that he was innocent to the last survey is 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 cole pepper virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed to use i old question they will buy different. and will use it as data. and they know i want to quote a model which call kept immoral. the death penalty.

after intense questioning police officers extracted a confession from earl for the brutal rape and stabbing murder of a one thousand year old mother of three. at his trial experts testified that earle had an i.q. of only sixty nine and was extremely suggestible casting doubt on his one year after the boston marathon bombing the memorial service brought everyone together for the first time. when we walked. down that road to the site. ron and i and chris starr stopped at each site and said a prayer. a week later karen in iran united with survivors at the two thousand and fourteen boston marathon. they cheered their friend celeste. in 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 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'd been a series of. blois fort collins colorado. they put out

a report to police agencies all across the united states. so they sent the an a from shannon's case to fort collins. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married and 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 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 i am 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. 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 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 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 principles. several years past before jerry learned that her washington was not guilty. it had to be like fifteen or twenty executions at that girl 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. i don't think we make those mistakes and yet when you see a person like earl washington. something happened here. 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 a month. and a death certificate reads. death by almost. you know don't make sense i don't want to be consider person deaths committed almost but that's what every.

six to two executions and the only kill of that accuracy was myself and i refused to look into the mirror. she 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. planning genoa. total around going to. be. a lot of

money we didn't. all go to go to post pizza to move for you. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longed to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw 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 show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom

box. 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 karin 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 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 and i have 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. 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 it i want to know why i want to stand 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 wanted to understand who he was vicki located troy graves mother and gave her

a call were you were on the phone together for many many hours. mysterious happening 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 you must be going to 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 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 could 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 caught cos issues they don't get their lawyers just all the ago not you know what you can 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 and this isn't the way you loose chopper you guys. are and. so you have to you have to kind of learn to live with this hole in your heart. either we can continue to do well on it and kind of well up the misery and sustain

that misery that the. 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 native 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. 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 the verdict any time now i would prefer it be you know 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 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 holding your breath at once and her ticking and it's like now we can start here don't point. was son lives fate sealed karen 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 put it in a paper you see them in a carry out execution of. their.

and your own pal. i am told. in film plan there is a trade in young girls sold into an underground six in the street sometimes by the people they trust the most. others. you cannot operate as united nations this is not just one rob 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 local authorities which are

hamas in this case here on or has been for most of the last few years. please. i don't have faith in this government i don't have faith in love president i don't have face in this just still applies to god it's all right i'm too liberal the system is not decided for people like me. as long as there are. different people who are here for different reasons but also job loss a whole. leg . length.

most people in philadelphia are only a ballot two paychecks away from homelessness. play . believe it or to keep. her mother.

the little boy. in the week's top stories just minutes after a blast off the mouth function on a russian soyuz walk it forces the crew capsule to eject and sends the astronauts perfectly packed into. almost two weeks on and there's still no answer as to what's happened to a prominent journalist who vanished after entering the saudi embassy in istanbul turkey claims he was murdered there something reality denies. and a bad day at the office for german chancellor angela merkel's conservative allies in bavaria who risk losing their majority.