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a different story on given the depth and it would go into. 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 did not bring me a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it to manage if you tickle why
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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 the lives. so when it came down to execution i had to transform myself into a person that would take a life. jerry 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 before my eyes i want to
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be and quite a young lady because. i was. told. my thing is that if a person take a life of about a person in that person's life should be taken and that's what i believe. gerry 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 the work that preparations. get in this person brady is mixed up and i prepare him just to see is key it's for the last time with. a last kiss of his mother sister amy's wife or daughter. all of human you know in this is one human that had made a mistake and we had to carry out the orders.
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outside of his team of eight jerry told no one about his work as an executioner not even his wife. we would 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 supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. it was a gorgeous day it was a beautiful morning we met some friends and lost and. twenty three thousand runners and half a million spectators gathered for the boston marathon. karen brossard her
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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. to. seven of us there six of us were injured. one of our friends lost both of my legs that. i knew that my husband was pretty badly injured. my daughter had shrapnel from her hip. and i had trapped.
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the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people killed three including crystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursued two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. the six year old tamar alonzo miles 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. going to try to not let this. i'm not going to let this prevent me from living
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a life that i want to live. i'm not going to be afraid. later that summer karen traveled from oklahoma new hampshire to boston her star ny observer a mint 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 pople. babis 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 us should seek the death penalty.
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were i don't know. i don't know. i. don't know what justice is. i got an email. terrorist acts where 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 therefore i would say it was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was prepared to go by. the assailant who attacked her. he pried open her sliding door. she screamed for help as she was being attacked.
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the next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. he told him that he heard his neighbor say a 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. the guy i just went pale they say oh my god i called the
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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 even though the police were swarming around the apartment building and they let us know immediately that she had been attacked and that she had been murdered. we were beginning to face the fact that part of us had died and i mean it it hit us very quickly. i just remember the prince that we'd be able to gather to get through this. that. weekend they attended mass.
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where we got to the lord's prayer. saying the lord's prayer out while it was a real confrontation. versus as we prove those who trespass against him. i had to abandon. something i had been saying. from probably thoughtlessly thousands of. and if anyone would have asked us well 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 the schieber is buried there twenty three year old daughter.
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you know we have all the one player nation history and they're setting prices and there's no more market setting the price of market failure and yet what happens to sell you that you know you ironically the soviet union now russia is moving toward where america was the one nine hundred fifty s. with code more like ike or eisenhower and now you've got the current administration moving towards soviet union with behaving more like you know with russia. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten point zero or foreign tempi each dish. eighty five percent of global will you want to be ultra rich with six percent market saw thirty percent minus one is your home with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty. thousand dollar. china's
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building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember it was one business show you know for them it's the one and only. decide to 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 establishing 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
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gruesome execution caught the attention of the media. on aug fourteenth in owensboro kentucky raney of the thea was publicly hanging by a white sheriff many thought but the was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's festive saw prayerful black man put to death today and davies county's piton gallus . the outcry over rainy but he 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 farming it's a scripted death in the beginning it was hanging. it's not only hanging but it was public and so you see the crowds come in and bring
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a picnic lunch and celebrating then we move from hanging to 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 that 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 want some people kill with an attitude so callous
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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 it at people not being treated fairly with 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 compassion 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
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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 current
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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 am at the end of each syringe i'm pushing a poison. down to tune into the body so i'm more attach to this person then it is pushing a button and release and then they let the current flow wide elf. fifteen days prior to an execution the condemned all nine of us were executioners and we put that on good execution that's what we stood by. the preparation was
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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 whether condemn sperry's. this is where the warden read his death warrant his clergy person sit with him. doing this course and then they condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. by six
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o'clock hour preparations in the stocks and to the inmate is placed today. at home in new hampshire karen and her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. not some much the loss of physical abilities things like the loss of. especially for me my rose colored glasses you know. just the reality. the latent ships people are. different things are not the same. when even with one and i. different.
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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 beginning. initially i. i couldn't bring myself. to believe it. because i felt. 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.
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after months of deliberation attorney general eric holder announced the u.s. would seek the death penalty. the defense will argue that the car was pressured into it by his older brother that he was a popular well liked college kid led astray. you know it's going to be held responsible and i agree and i and i am to believe that. but i also thank you. just can't stupendous. karen son was the same age as the car. didn't seem like such a hard decision when it was abstract. you know our family and friends who are very religious and don't believe in an area that i have others
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who just 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 she worst pressed for answers but the police had none. it's just like you're in a coma you 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 wall and you know for some time i could visualize sheila there walking through a door squawking in the house and walking through the door saying are dotty but and
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she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always we come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference shannon was living many things she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loved him 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. this 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 us first drink and he never stopped or hear him and she lost his job and marriage. but
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well just daughter was one of one hundred sixty six people killed in the timothy 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 i want that man execute 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 destroying their a lot. of
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. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing the finish that's just a little simple they want to recover and then thrown out on the last august but i think 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. than. i felt it best when i get them in a lot of that. they had to watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house over for the gravels. the lead up to the. offensive struggles of many couples. the pushkin food impulse response both both of
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those of you out to just a few of the folks of the. truths seem wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any belief yet to shape out these days become educated and in gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. is finding this out of need. in our eyes how the powder but i. have. to. make.
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