his years serving is regina's chief executioner gerry wood here in the swear they were innocent. when you hear a person going to his death sticking out and 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. and give me something that thank about as the execution and it place some doubt there there was one young man in particular washington jr. he was try 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 culpepper virginia and brought in for questioning he thought it was for a burglary he had committed to so i all the question by different.

data. and they've no i want to call up a. call kept. was going to the death penalty. after intense questioning police officers extracted a confession from earl for the brutal rape and stabbing murder of a nineteen 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 he couldn't write i walked in to the cell and canadian thing bang all the door come see what you want that was earl the whole time he was on the road he was. scared to have it. all as they were for me my mom dating. a promise once or. a movie was a need to see the mama would i need. 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 me everybody's banging on the door to hear that the cost of the guards.

joe reached out to his caseworker marie deans to see if anything could be done. i called her 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 trade 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 got her you know you had led to as i went through to your home and. have a date with all we got was the. he said he would get a new rating from. i have been ill. and that became my will no longer want me to go i go again knowing on a way. working day and night joe in memory secured

a rare stay of execution marie was convinced that earl had been pressured into falsely confessing coerced confession whether it was course psychologically when someone did you kill that woman next. but you told the police that you did. yes why did you tell the police that you did it. oh no no no no 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 the not allowed 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 walk. down the road to the site. ron and i and christie 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 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. 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 and one there'd been a series of assaults started taking place in 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. 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 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 in cill 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 still 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 earl washington was not guilty. it had to be like fifteen to twenty executions at the 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 girl 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 per month. the death certificate reads. death by almost. you know don't make sense i don't want to be consider person deaths committed. but that's what every. six to two executions and only kilobit achan 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. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. cautiously optimistic but first a little sympathy i want to take on most elantra not one the last was going to stop us but as 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 to ask than call mom. was a little more don't give it up that's not. that i'm in a lot of class and i want a bad. rap on the head of water they all chose to stay in the country with donald

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to remember is one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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 zero cars are naive was unduly influenced by his older brother. the prosecutors would argue that

he was fully responsible for his actions. and 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 john

hartson 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 you should be put to death. the survivors were divided. karin'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 want 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 in tears just tear a sobbing 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 this because god you must be going through a terrible time lost your son and you know and she says oh this is schieber 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 and i. and my kids would come to me and it's 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. vicki began meeting with inmates on death row. she discovered a system of victims on all sides we could just hear stands like 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 don't get the lawyers just all that i can go on not you know what you can 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 he dies whole in

part 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 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 victims' 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 had passed since our new 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. what do you mean suddenly a text from a clerk inside look at her that the jury was close to a decision. they're going to be coming ellen. 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 thank you know that there is still a long road ahead but right now it feels like we can take a breath and. actually breathe again. you know without even realizing all the crap at once and heard king and like now we can start here no point. with son lives 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'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 this data but ginia was found guilty once i was out i mean i'm expose so i gotta come forward i give them a why is this in the truth about this here. why me 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 earl's case you know placed 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 want to say oh you know i'm sorry i'm glad that things didn't go in a way there was plan to go and i'm glad to see you on a side because i can apologize to you at that take your life you know after i had biden that's it. i'm glad i didn't get a chance to hit so i apologized for the name thanking the 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 custody. line one day i was a mockingbird and i was a new father. i want to ritual fall and spring street ok that's what it looked each year you know i wonder would we're going to you know went through your mind not doing it you was innocent oh mama get it all we're here 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 he didn't do anything wrong. and also isn't something that i would have to face. but to see him crossing that bridge into medium and how do you listen to.

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