nineteen seventy eight. to ninety nine and i i said better execution. i perform sixty two next years and seventeen years. people that recommend the death penalty and interior judge if they had performed the execution i think that. in light a different story on given a definite it when. the

united states is the last country in the developed west to execute criminals. about fifty percent of americans are for the death penalty and fifty percent against it. our capital punishment system is flawed this is not a matter of vengeance it's a matter of just that we believe serves as a turn capital punishment is tainted by racial disparity having my father's killers executed announcing the a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it an issue if you tickle why should your life be taken justice is about us as a society. nine

hundred eighty two was my first execution. i was a correctional officer. one of my main jobs were to save lives so when it came down to execution i had to transform myself into a person that would take a life. gerry givens was appointed executioner in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven when the united states reinstated the death penalty. he grew up in the housing projects of richmond virginia. and remembers one tragic night at a party. when i was a teenager i witness a young lady. shot to death by. i want to. quote a young lady because. i was. told it. might be is that if a person take a life of about a person in that person's life should be taken and asked what i believe. jerry

received training to operate the electric chair and later to administer lethal injections. he became chief executioner in one thousand nine hundred two. i would say my team members take pride in that work that preparations. getting this person and ready always make step in life prepare him just to see is he it's for the last time and. 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 gerry 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 morning we met some friends in boston and. twenty three thousand runners and half a million spectators gathered for the boston marathon. karen brossard her husband and daughter which cheering a friend over the finish line. we were there for maybe ten or fifteen minutes all excited with the crowd watching everybody come through and suddenly it was this incredibly loud. explosion.

there were seven of us there six of us were injured. one of our dear friends lost both legs that. i knew that my husband was pretty badly injured. my daughter had shrapnel from her hips your feet. and i had trapped knowing both of my legs. the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people and killed three including krystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursue two brothers in

a dramatic manhunt. twenty six year old tamar alonzo maya was killed in a shootout. a day later police captured the younger brother dzhokhar a life. over the next few months karen braun in their daughter like many of the bombing victims had to undergo multiple surgeries. i want to try to not let this change who i am i'm not going to let this prevent me from living a life that i want to live. i'm not going to be afraid. later that summer karen traveled from a home in new hampshire to boston and i observe arraignment at the federal court.

we were all seated together and he walked out he didn't look at any of us but his hand was obviously entered and my immediate response was i hope that her i hope it's. not like me. and the recognition of that about me was scared because that isn't who i am. pled not guilty to all thirty counts seventeen punishable by death. the federal prosecutor asked victims if the u.s. should seek the death penalty. i don't know. i don't know. i. don't know what justice is. i got an e-mail.

terrorist acts are rare much more common are the murders and other violent acts that happen every day across the united states. in philadelphia shannon schieber was finishing her first year of graduate school. she had been up studying it was early thursday morning before i would see him was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was preparing to take a bath. the assailant who 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. and. he told him that he heard his neighbor cheryl 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. or lucy and it's neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said i'm trying to reach my sister i can't reach her. the guy 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 you though the police were swarming around the apartment building and they let us know immediately that she had been in terror in the she'd 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 a person 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 out loud was a real confrontation. forgive us our trespasses as we preach of those who trespass against us. i had to abandon something i had been saying.

often probably thoughtlessly thousands of times over my over or. and if anyone would have asked us 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 she burst buried their twenty three year old daughter. when lawmakers manufactured him sentenced him to public wealth. when the

ruling classes to protect themselves. when the crime and merry go round the sun we know one person told. to ignore middle of the room sick moves. from the real news room. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing their fingers just as they would a simple they want to take on most of enter and i want to ask some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person asked bank of mom. policy to point out how they are at best when i get a man on a quest at that point that. they can't water their options to stay in the country

with donald trump in the white house all over for the gravels they also feel what is the to be got to do with the old affairs it struggles of many couples won't. kill the chance of putting food impulse response both of you up of up to the fault of the. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there. what does 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 august fourteenth in owensboro kentucky raney of the thea was publicly hanging by a white sheriff many thought but dia was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's festive saw prayerful black men put to death today and davies county's piton gallus

. the outcry over rainy bothy 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 said death by a formula 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 luncheon celebrating then we move from hanging. into the electric chair and then we began to hammer the horror stories that happened out of the electric chair. and then there 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 death 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 were some people kill with an attitude so callous heinous sadistic that they have forfeited their right to live i believe in a 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 who your d.n.a. is we cannot recognize injustice when we see at people of not being treated fairly

if people not getting a fair shot you can be critical but you can be critical of the idea that the government has the right to kill and also hold passion and concern for victims maybe in some books of justice the person for this act is serves to die but do we as a society deserve to kill them. today capital punishment largely falls to the state in which the crime was committed. and laws and methods vary widely. most states use lethal injection. but some still use gas chambers. the electric chair. hanging and firing squad. carrying out the death penalty is intrusted to specially trained guards like jerry

givens. of the sixty two executions the jerries conducted thirty seven were by electrocution and twenty five by lethal injection. lethal injection is considered the more humane form but for jerry it made the job of killing another person a lot tougher. when you talk about execution and electrocution is a button you push and washing push the button because it flows in the car and the current comes out and that's all i had to do was push a button but when it come down to death by lethal injection you have seven to. a chemicals. you have four flushes and three deadly chemicals that is inserted into this man and. my self as the execution i'm at the end

of it's a rant i'm pushing the poison. down the tomb and to the body so i'm more attach to this person then it is pushing a button and release and then they let the current for a wide elf. fifteen days prior to an execution the condemned would be moved to the death chamber where gerry and his team worked. all nine of us were executions and we put that on good execution that's what we stood by. the preparation was mental as well as physical we practice and practice and practice prior to execution. each of us knew our jobs out sign it and we never allow ourselves to get that close to anyone you know we train for that we train this way you don't get that close to. the day of the execution. twenty four

hours prior to that we we have a call a duck watch. a guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. this is the sale when to condemn space. this is where the warden read is don't want this clergy person. to sit with him. doing this course of the day to condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. by six o'clock hour preparations in the stocks and to the inmate is placed a day. at home in new hampshire karen in her family were slowly recovering from their

injuries. not some much for wasm physical abilities things like. especially for me my rose colored glasses you know. just the reality. people are different things are not the same. when even with one and i. are. working through things and i'm working through things that. 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 zocor was pressured into it by his older brother that he was a popular well liked college kid led astray.

you know he's going to be held responsible and i agree and i and i'm 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 say. it's the right thing to do 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 i 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 war. and you know for some time i could visualize sharon there walking through a door squawking in the house and walking through the door saying our doctor and she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always will 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 key and still turn to each other and reached out for support. it just 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 sorrow and anger. the father of one of the murdered daughters we know well took his first drink and he never stopped near him and she lost his job in a marriage. but well just daughter was one of one hundred sixty six people killed in that summit the mcveigh bombing of oklahoma city. one night about a year later he woke up in the morning and he had this dream and his daughter julie was there telling him dad dad he murdered me are you going to let him murder whole family. also saw the high price people paid for putting their lives on hold

as they waited for an execution. we start finding out what murder victims' families go through if you decide to say look at i want that man executed it would take fifteen twenty years as much longer for it actually to happen and we just saw the effects that this had on these family members we saw it destroying their lives. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us of that with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty

five percent of global wealth 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 per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only.

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