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 so. he's mentally retarded he couldn't read he couldn't write i walked in to the cell and canadian thing bangle 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 dad again see the problems with mr. moti was an aide to see the mom would have me. 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 then walk him out. literally drugging him out

and me everybody's banging on the door here at the cost of the 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 you did i'll break this god knows what's going on when early arrived at the death house he was handed over to jerry i received earl from mecum bear and when he came in i gave a good training to 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 know how do you know how you go lead to as a one to cheer home of a day with all we got was the he said he would get new really from. i have

been. in that big game of the world alone want me to go i go again knowing on a way. working day and night joe and marie 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 or in some way 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. you know that those you understand then that you were being. accused of a murder no sir you 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 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 and the morial service brought everyone together for the first time. when we walked. down that 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 and 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 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 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. 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 be a series of story to you please fort collins colorado they put out a report to police agencies all across the new united states. so they sent

from shannon's case to fort coord. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married and employed at an air force base. 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 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 present and off 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 still 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 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 earl washington. something happened. 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 almost but that's when it really. the sixty two

executions and only kilobit accuracy 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. what holds its institutions to. put themselves on the line to get accepted will reject. so when you want to be president and you. want to.

have to lie to the press this is what the forty three in the morning. and people that i'm interested always in the water use in the house. there should be more. love lol if he had there's a saying. i think they're going to be cheap busted and then he went through all the contras let's idea the right to go to a scum pit that he said let me give them everything that's left in the basket. in this country because this is what we don't understand how we are poor in such contracts. but i never said to the ones at the same time. you know it is

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a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. you. the only number you need to remember is one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only boombox. 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 nyathi 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 so cars are najaf 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 hearts are naive and all thirty counts he was facing for the boston marathon bombing just eleven hours the jury found her 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 we 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 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 if they don't get their lawyers just all the ago 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 victim's 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 their way. home and hearth 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 john 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 the extent we can counter 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 and still continue their efforts to end the death penalty. in boston nearly three weeks had passed since our name 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. 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 and the death penalty just because i think that's a fair thing that 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 your heart 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 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 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 in a minute carry out execution orders for this data but 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 there. 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 earle's case you know the place down 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 at 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 me and and 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 week it's like you know one day i was a mockingbird and i was in a fire. i would do ritual follow swing through the book as well good luck to you you know i wonder with we're going to you know went through your mind i don't want it you was innocent oh mama hit it all we're here she's a bloody 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 whether he even do anything wrong. and also isn't it something that i would have to face.

but to see him crossing that bridge in to meet him and how the innocence of it feel . and it. is near don't know because you want my shoe.

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