during his years serving his region is chief executioner jerry would hear inmates swear they were innocent. when you hear a person going to be sticking out and he was innocent the last survey is going to his body he's taken out that he was innocent on his last words as last. and give me something that bank about as executioner and it place some doubt. there was one young man in particular washington jr. he was tried to tell society back then that he was innocent to get no one really paid no attention.

in one thousand nine hundred three earl was arrested in culpepper virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed these are all in question by different. and we'll use it at our data. and they then know i want to quote. call captain marvel. was going to dump and. after intense questioning police officers extracted a confession from her 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 confession.

despite inconclusive evidence the jury found guilty and the judge sentenced him to death. he was taken to mecklenburg a supermax prison in virginia. he was scared to death he was tempted he didn't want to come out of the cell. he's mentally retarded he couldn't read you couldn't write i walked in to the cell and if you needed anything bang all door come see what you want that was earl the whole time he was on the road he was . scared to have it all a thing over me my mom dating. a plot on a swimsuit. almost he was an aide to see the mom would have needed. two weeks before earl's date of execution the guards came to transport him to the

death house in richmond. a charity mob put him in a way saying handcuffs shackles and they walked him out. literally drug him out and meanwhile everybody's banging on the door to hear that the casa guards. joe reached out to his caseworker marie deans to see if anything could be done. i called mary in a panic as i was. out of this god did or not but i don't think he did i'll bet this god knows what's going on when early arrived at the death house he was handed over to jerry i received earl from mecca member and when he came in i gave him a good turn into the infirmary he was given a complete physical. at that time we only had. death by electrocution chair so he didn't have a choice. you could her you know how you had led to as i went through to your home

and have a date with all we got was the he said we were getting really from. i have been. in that big game of the world alone want me to go out go on you know laying on away. working day and night joe 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 and we know that this was a what we would call a coerced confession whether it was course psychologically when someone did you kill that woman nokes. but you told the police that you did. yes 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 that 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 side 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 fall judge will tool announced the trial would be held in boston. but 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. from shannon's case to four told. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married and employed and therefore space. about eight o'clock that twenty third day of april. two thousand and two this fellow and his wife walked into the police station by midnight that night they had a full confession for the 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 presence 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 would they not want. for vicki instilled 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 qs ing 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 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 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 a month. and a death certificate reads. death by almost. you know don't make sense i don't want to be consider that person deaths committed

almost 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. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime tempi each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth if you want 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 bush acted and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to. remember it was one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only film by. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing the finish tell us that there was a simple i want to take on lost a lantern and i wanted us to some to stop us but i think many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides address he used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities best person as pan call mom. i then had

a question i get an auto question the one that. they have that water there is to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over forty couples. all said he has to be able to beat up to the. offense it's doubled up many couples won't. kill which at the push to put impulse response both of you up of up to the bulk of the. 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 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 phones are 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 you have to talk to his mother i wanted to understand who he was vicki located troy graves mother and gave her a call we're we're we're 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 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. was mother 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 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 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 this isn't the way you lose child dies whole in heart 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. 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 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 have 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. 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 thanks 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 you can hold your breath. once in a hurricane and like now we can start here no point. with 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 the paper this is

a man that carry out execution orders for this day to be ginia was found guilty once i was out i mean i'm exposed so i gotta come forward i got them a wife is this in the truth about this hair. why i mean no all because i didn't see you i don't want you to have to go through what happened go through. well 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 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 the name thank in a 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 past it's like you know one day i was a mockingbird and i was in a fog. i want to ritual for i was wearing st ok that's what it led to chew yeah you know i wonder with what's going on with you know went through your mind i don't want it he was innocent oh my ma he did all war yeah she's a bloody ratio of like get me through. just. his is a good thing that i didn't give him you know because outing at a wedding that made it into anything long. and also isn't something that i would advocate. but to see him crossing that bridge and to meet him and how that isn't yours and if you're. in it. you don't know because you're

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