in dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need remember in one one show you can't afford to miss the one and only film buff. nineteen seventy. to ninety nine and i i said better execution. opera form sixty next years in the seventeen years. people that recommend the death penalty in theory to judge if they had performed

the execution i think that. in light a different story on given a definite to do in a way. 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 the best that we believe serves as a deterrent capital punishment is tainted by racial disparities having my father's

killers executed did not bring me a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it an issue if you take a life should your life be taken justice is about us as a society. one 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. 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 oh my. i want to

being quite a young lady because. i was. told if. 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. 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 their work their preparations. getting this person ready for his next step in life prepare him just to see is he it's for the last time or. a last kiss of his mother sister amy is a wife or daughter. with all of human you know in this is

one human that had made a mistake and we had to carry out the orders. outside of his team of eight jerry told no one about his work as an executioner not even his wife. to keep. 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 the 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. seven of us there six of us were injured. one of our dear friends lost both of my legs that. i knew that my husband was pretty badly injured . my daughter had shrapnel from her hips.

and i had trapped my leg. the two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people and killed three including krystal campbell. and eight year old martin richard. police pursuit two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. twenty six year old tamar alonzo meyer was killed in a shoot a. day and later police captured the younger brother dzhokhar alive. over the next few months karen braun in their daughter like many of the bombing victims had to undergo multiple surgeries. i'm going 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 for star ny observer a moment 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 us 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 therefore i would say it was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was preparing to take. 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. 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 not done 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. all of its neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said i'm trying to reach my sister i can't reach. 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 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 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.

when we got to the lord's prayer. saying the lord's prayer out while it was a real confrontation. were given so trespasses as we preserve those who trespass against us. i had to abandon something i had been saying. often probably thoughtlessly thousands of cars were murdered overboard. 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 too maybe i don't know i never had this happen it was just so painful. eight days later the schieber is buried their twenty three year old daughter.

with no make just manufacture consensus instance of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. doing. the real news. putting back in place a hard border. doctor vision between northern ireland and our lives has economic consequences it has a lot of consequences for people particularly those who live along the border there's a lot of free movement at the moment people move back and forward there's a lot of economic activity there's a lot of social. social activity not

a nobody wants to see got to stop. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be press dislikable for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the house. question. prosecution will need to become almost. the fault is all up to take on where you can push us out of this thread you'll find somebody known to us you do i mean yeah i mean i mean political pressure on that god you've done to him and conclude you know through security jenison knows when to pull your bundled up business models he

was my american corporations jadhav was in complete peace sold all good mental disease has a new album use teaching shows and see a man who was on the scene and the solution. is up in association. as i noted when he saw small dogs it is just somebody with deleted data an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy. 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 aug fourteenth in owensboro kentucky raney of the thea was publicly hanging by a white sheriff's many thought but the oh 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's a death by far 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 lunch and celebrating then we move from hanging to the electric chair and then we began to hare the horror stories that happened out of the electric chair. and then has been a move to lethal injection. and lethal injection is likely going medicinal so that will 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 and people not getting a fair shot you can be critical because 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 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 tuned. 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 it's a rant i'm pushing a 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 with that a good execution that 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 sperry's. this is where the warden readers don't want these clergy person to sit with him. doing this course and then they condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. by six o'clock our preparations will stocks into the inmate is placed to death. at home in new hampshire karen and 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. relationships. with people are. different things are not the same. when even with one and i. who 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 beginning. 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. be held responsible and i agree and i and i do believe that. but i also thank you. just can't stoop and.

karen son was the same age is the 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 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 in you know for some time i could those who are feeling they're walking through a door squawking in the house and walking through the door saying aadhaar and she told me. she was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always would come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference. sharon was many many things she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loved shana everybody loved her she was an extremely loving daughter. in their grief they can 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 his first drink and he never stopped very near him and she lost his job in a marriage. but welch's 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 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. hope it is him his son joe point spread political allegation that it's almost almost all meaning if any politician regardless of their beliefs can be labeled the populist isn't all politics populism of some sort or another. is finding this out in need. of our eyes how the cargo but i again gouge and jones were telling. me as this started. going to work to have thought that they're good for it. unless i get all the way or the other thirty of us had

almost a month ago cdma looked at the gift at the company below. right on the bank. base walker. and this is going to. treat their international market know that these industries are new to simply ignore the money and. the mother of the means we lost even this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it

be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. to sit down and talk. with. the people there on the cheap. and then prove it come true so let's. just go through this country he said to me you ever looked into. this. this is what. we are in such.

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