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still in the same place they should probably take it upon themselves to start testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their own. jackson in georgia. a town of 4000 people in the southern united states. a place where executions in the nearby prison are a way of life. in a few hours one will take place by lethal injection. how does it make you feel to let the stuff in a house. i'm with. that people get with. the family physical harm if they. do it. you know wife children getting children. that yes definitely.
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in 2016 the state of georgia broke the record for the most executions in the united states. each time anti death penalty associations demonstrate for hours trying to stop the execution. parts come down every time there's an execution to. have a presence here to say i don't think it's right and the state shouldn't be taking laws of anybody no matter what the circumstances and so i feel responsible but i mean clearly you do have to and and make a study until it stops since 977 there has been 1460 executions in the us. a large majority of those executed are blacks were latino it was for people in general mostly men but also women. the last
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woman executed was kelly case and after she was the 55th woman to be put to death since the start of the 20th century. 46 year old kelly renee just sundowner is set to die. 7 pm by lethal injection she was convicted of murder for the 1997 stabbing over her husband prosecutors say she plotted his death with her boyfriend demonstrations to prevent her execution were organized her children did everything they could to save her life we want to also know that we're still fighting 2 dollars your face this is not over there's a reason that we didn't get to see her today and hopefully that stuff as we're going to see her again this weekend that they. even pope francis putting her case. against him down or was it hard it's her final words were broadcast on t.v. and on the radio. and we know. this
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. and that is she's going to. go on september 30th 2015 at 12 21 am kelly gets in that or was executed she was 47 years old. in the united states out of the 2843 inmates on death row 54 are women they are incarcerated in 16 different states across the country. who were granted permission to interview 3 of them. some have been on death row for over 15 years. in the county shawna forde and millicent looser have been charged with the most unspeakable crimes violent acts that resulted in. the claimed the life of
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a young girl and her father. black white or hispanic they all have a troubled past some common makes with drugs sexual abuse and it's. stream violence these 3 prisoners are considered among the most dangerous in the country they live in solitary confinement. contact with their fellow prisoners for a bit and. their families denounce these terrible conditions. and lawyers fight day and night to delay their executions in the distance from this is the police the some are convinced of their innocence. that showed up for what is not. botched trials court appointed lawyers and scripture has judges and prosecutors the families believe that the deck was stacked against that of anybody that set that trial not that my sister's trial was
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a circus that was just awful even when they're proven and it sends the nightmare continues. to say that. this is the unknown world of 4 men on death row. used in texas the city was the scene of a strange and atrocious crime. of child kidnapping and homicide that led to the arrest of. this 43 year old woman lived in a poor neighborhood known for drug trafficking her neighbors. had just moved to the united states from mexico. they just had a baby 2 days earlier. is believed to have devised the plot to steal their
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baby. on may 16th 2001 and the middle of the night the couple's home was stormed by 3 armed men the young parents were gagged and. the men searched the house from top to bottom. linda carter had made them believe that a large amount of drugs were in the couple's home. in exchange they had to deliver the mother and the newborn. 40 hours later. was found dead in the trunk of a car the infant was safe and sound. the car belonged to linda. in her hotel room baby items were found. she had even made her neighbors believe she was pregnant she denied everything to the police. and if you told you. if you told anyone. tell you about him getting the baby and not 7 days you haven't told anybody. no i said i should. say
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i didn't say i'm in love baby life by in a baby feeling well baby that's not what i thought and involved i can have a baby if i want to have a baby that i've been a 5 big you. may. i don't even bother me if i'm mad oh now i'm getting fat all everybody's trying the model i may be quote the body was in my car. they've got the guy you have me it's just pure and they've got you. evidence was overwhelming. linda carty was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder. in texas linda carter who would have been executed if his lawyer had not been fighting for years to get her a new trial. for the oldest law firm in the
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united states. for 16 years they have been handling when the case pro bono. they spent more than $4000000.00 trying to prove she did not receive a fair. this whole. interview with 3. so this would have been the original police. which became one of the biggest pieces of evidence we had in the. morning because this was the police report. the video of the the key one who did it all being interviewed by the police when he was 1st and telling the story completely different than what he told and so this. is trying to prove that prosecutors tempered with evidence and.
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that. this case they withheld evidence the witnesses reported how they were bullied into saying certain things. certain things and then we started hearing this independently the witnesses independently with the same story. it all came into focus the jury was misled by the district attorneys and there was no fear why was the prosecution. in seeking the death penalty when considering the. life in texas especially. to win elections you have to be seen as being someone strong strong is important and so if you have a judge that lets criminals loose or criminals when the opponents will come in and
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say this judge is weak. and they lose. the prosecutor. are they on that no no the ones that admitted doing this the ones that had mid putting your in the truck the ones today admitted leaving her in the trunk for 8 hours in the texas heat they all struck deals. that the d.a.'s went to them and told them you either testify this way or you'll get the death penalty. the men got sentences ranging from 15 to 45 years in prison. continues to deny any involvement her only hope
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is to get a new trial but all of her appeals have been systematically rejected. for 16 years she has been on death row in gainesville a city lost in the countryside surrounded by 6 prisons for women. nearly 7700 detainees are locked up here among them 6 on death row. we were granted permission to meet lynda carter with a strict agreement with her lawyer not to speak about her case. was 60 minute interview with a woman considered to be one of the most dangerous in the united states. so. i'm. very worried here. thank you for accepting. this script to be home how's your life. moments you know
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it's up and down. and it depends on the status of the appeal. because you could be quite euphoric at some times and then all of a sudden you could be in that rally. you know whenever a case is denied every time i talk about that i want to cry because it's difficult. it's for me in particular if i had done the crime i would have accepted my fate. but because i know that i'm not guilty it's hard it's hard dealing with it and i try i try to put it on the back by not think about it because i don't want to be another step to stick for the mental health. department. and i need to be able to stay strong so that in the process of having my investigators and my attorneys on my daughter and my friends
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vaccines and other virus they want to make a profit so they don't make them if there is no virus to make them against it so after sars one it disappeared very quickly there was no incentive. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids. and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's a lot. within the game between the teams most of the conflicts i would say are over the. close one on the children's clothes.
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is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complex just to get some point to a life where. you don't care. are the times where you can't do shit anymore. i have a daughter at that i would really love i truly love. it's this place is enough of a bargain for her. soul for me to try to commit suicide or to give up or anything. i feel as though i would fail my child she said she has 2 boys i have 2 grandsons and you're going to have met one you know because we're not allowed to have visits with all kids because the state says that if you have a. crime against a child that you are not allowed to have the visits with even your old sadly.
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the family members who are kids so no i don't get to see them other than pictures. talk into them on the fall with every 90 days like all women on death row lynda carter who has no physical contact with her family visits are always behind the bulletproof glass. the special inmates are separated from the rest of the prison population. they are in total isolation locked in tiny cells. they're not allowed to have personal belongings or photos on the wall. awakened every morning at 3 their lives revolve around meals and inspections every 2 hours. alone 24 hours a day they are waiting to be executed. these imprisonment conditions are deemed inhumane by the prisoners families
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a mental and emotional torture that also affects their children and grandchildren. develop carty linda's daughter tries her best to maintain family ties with them. whose life is on hold so. it's a challenge to make her exist spiritually to her children to maintain a semblance of normality. this isn't their 1st christmas but this is one of their christmas and of course my mom gets copies of all of these photos and we try to send as many as possible the boys. cards. they write letters. to keep in contact. dated on what's going on family gossip. grandchildren who have never seen the grandmother that they hear about all the time and who will one day learn the truth about her.
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i usually have my mom with the newest announcement here anything that's new it's cool everything like that picture will be the one that got the news announcement next to it. but. yes. she's always included and you think kids ask all the time. all the time mother's day was always pretty difficult. one of the questions what kind of questions with. the normal questions you know how soon they are doing was last time we talked to nana are we when are we going to be able to go. you know. how come we can't go. and the best we can do is to just explain it to them. these are the rules that they have set up and we can't change their. juval only has one picture of her mother
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taken by a guard from the other side of the visiting room with a jacket to hide her prisoners' clothes she's always alone contact with other death row prisoners is not allowed. she's in a cell. all day all 23 hours of the day. nonstop. and the one hour that she gets to come out of this hole. all by herself she still doesn't get to have interaction with everyone else she still by herself tell me that it's not punishment. tell me that it's not enough punishment. i'm worried about you know is she going to be same. because how long can you maintain being by yourself. for year after year after year with no one to talk to where does your sanity go.
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not surprisingly many who are condemned to death. long before being executed. a place in the middle of the desert close to the mexican border. communities 30000 people is a mixture of newcomers. and vigilante groups trying to prevent migrants crossing the border. when militia was responsible for the biggest slaughter in the region. led by 42 year olds. now sentenced to death for executing a mexican family suspected of trafficking drugs. her friend lane wallace has also dedicated her life to stop illegal immigrants and
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the united states. if you're going to go to a place where there's a lot of trafficking and stuff going on you're probably going to take set like in a 47 or an a r 15 you really shouldn't go out to places where there's drug smugglers to not carry along. you made something. seana for his organization was a nationalist militia which claim to fight cartels at the border. shawna forde was an early activists a regular on the media and television. she liked to praise the merits of her militant actions and she knew are of like the back of her hands. there is an extremely dangerous paragraphs matter of fact so dangerous that i'm
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repeatedly during the morning. i don't have enough i have one gun on me and. we're not getting people trying to spin lawyers and doctors here ok we're giving the floor of the floor we know what we need to do to secure these borders we know what we need to do to secure the sovereignty of this nation and that's what we're going to do and we will win this war there's a shot of for a minute an american defense. plane wallace like other militia members doesn't believe shawna forde is a murderer. she thinks she was settling scores between opposing cartels and that she was the scapegoat for the murders. this is the house where the arab docket massacre happened at about 12 45 am on a friday night. several intruders burst into that house they were supposedly
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pretending to be border patrol and were dressed as border patrol and they shot the husband they shot the wife and they shot the 9 year old daughter the wife survived she was shot in the head like the daughter and the husband were. seana ford was never positively identified by the surviving with this so there were definitely 2 men there and one woman and there were additional parties as well she's didn't know if there was she said there might have been 4 or 5 people there but she couldn't describe them. resign your fluoresce line and her father role florists died on the spot with a bullet in the head only survivor of the massacre gina gonzales mother shot in the leg she pretended to be dead during the shooting before calling for help. i don't know where you think. they shot them the way they were
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they shot him in the head in the head they're the people who are there that shot him. the cover back there. on the phone the assailants who heard her came back inside the house to eliminate the only survivor. to defend herself. picked up her husband's weapon and started firing a man who was injured in the leg. you can clearly hear the voice of the woman on the recording a voice that could belong to shawna forde. are you ok how many people were there i don't know. like males are talking there with a male in the. woman. ok now the woman let it. take me. home and.
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taking leave is just coming in to join us for newsroom 3 people have been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion. after a highly publicized trial. he was sentenced to death for the double homicide despite the fact that gina gonzales the only survivor was never able to formally identify her nor to say exactly how many killers were in the house. chris accurately sana ford's lawyer believes there is no evidence that his client was present at the scene of the kind. which he claims prove shauna for its innocence. we see a mysterious woman carrying a weapon similar to the one found at a scene of the kind. this woman's identity is still unknown today.
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in the 1st place gina gonzalez she was uncertain if it was one woman in her house or 2 with them because the woman who was initially there went outside and a few minutes later a woman came in who was dressed completely differently and had her hair done completely differently and she identified her as being a heavyset short one with blondish brown hair now we can prove. that these photographs were taken the night before the flores homicides occurred the jury never saw those photographs looks to me like a short heavy set woman with blondish brown hair that is not shown up for we don't know who it is there is a shotgun there and $357.00 caliber revolver. now 20 minutes after the homicides occurred this weapon. was
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found in the florist front yard this is also. 357 handgun with a finger and intuitions i believe that shawna forde was not present when these homicides occurred she was. she simply wasn't there. this is also what shawna forde has been claiming since she was arrested we requested an interview but death row inmates are not allowed interviews in arizona . after months of waiting we were finally granted permission to talk to her on the phone. interview yes. ok thank you. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the
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