i think. a lot of what many airlines. it's not just. times where you just wanted to end it there's many many. again. to let me try it. yourself. but it gets convicted of something. to automatically. be associated and there's. not much. developed. i did not. do we have to wrap this up now. ok well thank you so much. thank you.

thank you. thank you and. like many women on death row china for no longer has contact with her family. her brothers and sisters want nothing to do with her and even her own mother testified against her child. 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. the only one who continues to raise her daughter jasmine. she was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced to death. events of her any sense this nightmare haunts for a day and night. after being harassed she had to change your name and move out of state. you often think of her mother. all the time. there's no

a day that goes by i don't think about or. i wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. entire put her in my closet. that none of this would happen that she wanted to end it. over there when she got framed for she did it. i was a kid i had a pretty decent life. to nothing. to lower than nothing you were 17 at the time your worst you just might have the stuff . my family turned their back on me. i lived in a tent in the middle of winter time just to survive. people e-mailing me and said my family should be and still. they say that it was my

fault. that i shouldn't be here i should be dead. i hated america. has still do. you know love my country but i hate the people. you sometimes your. the phone call that would tell you that your mom might be executed yes. but if so that i want to be there. i want her to be my face not the people around her that want her dead person that wants her there. one less. even if it might which me for the rest well i for willing to take that risk. her mother's execution seems in. unless she can finally have

a new trial. in the united states very few women on death row managed to prove their innocence. until the last minute but they are almost never able to overturn a decision. since 976 only 6 women have been released. one of them and nashville tennessee. convicted for plotting the murder of her husband who beat her she was released in 2015 and in 2019 she lived in a home for battered women. it was the only place that would accept this old woman who was poor and seriously ill. after breast cancer

contracted in prison and several pneumonias. and lived with. what they say yesterday. no cancer in the. head. like to go you know do some traveling you know everything. right now all this thing is about saving money but you know what you know. in this place. if it wasn't for this place. i'd be living under a bridge. well you have had a lot of here you got your 1st cell phone yes but 1st. we got to be a part of the 1st text unfound call that was by. now your yes. teaching myself. michelle byron. receives

a retirement pension of $600.00 a month and less than a year she'll be forced to leave the home and will be on her own she will have to start all over again with no compensation from the state. has to be wrong. i don't even get the money that you get when you leave prison. i mean get ahead. and you are i didn't think you were there you know. so now you're on your own and so are mile. i've come through too many obstacles. to let it get me down. to. what michelle byron went through is inconceivable. after 14 years on death row she was suddenly released just a few hours before being executed.

the woman convicted of killing her husband was not executed today the state supreme court wants more time to review the case. michelle byron learned about her release in a surprising way. and the little girl on this for was next door to me she said you're not going to be executed you're free. and you know i've heard that so many times now she says it's on the news. and on the news and. the 16 to be executed 8 hours her sentence was overturned. michelle byron always claims sure in this there was. son also charged always insisted that he murdered his father. for 14 years he wrote her letters where he clearly admitted to the murder. i'm going to tell you

that you know i did and it wasn't for the money it was for the. letters that were never taken into account by the court this evidence should have cleared michelle byron's name and allowing her to receive a large financial compensation. everybody was go on go for your new trial go for your new trial but then i found out. at the last minute there wasn't going to be a trial. and that's where i couldn't understand why all of us. everybody turned against. us and what did you want to do then they said take the plea plate take the no contest take no contest and then a month later i figured out why they wanted me to take no countess because i had

cancer i found out a month after i was finally released that i had 3rd stage breast cancer. and said that i have had it for years at the stage it was c.n.n. and they had taken a mammogram and prison so they knew i had it. what does it mean. for you to be no contest is to save their face so they don't get sued. and they don't have to pay anything. the state should have paid for initial buyers medical expenses but by signing the no contest agreement she gave up her rights although free in the eyes of the law she was not pardoned she remained guilty consequently she was not able to sue the state or obtain any compensation for her damages they took my life.

taking my life to this day still my life is still being taken away from me my pleasure has been taken away from me. my hopes have been taken away from me. i mean so much as even apology is. the wasted life. and. this is also what the mississippi supreme court. was one of the 7 judges. proceedings. he believed from the start. and that she needed to be really. the case while i was on the court in 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place. even though i had written an opinion. the rest of fellow judges to overturn that conviction because i

thought there were problems and i thought it should be. she remained in prison. i think another 11 years or so after. now retired has never forgotten. which remains his greatest. he's made a point of speaking in the media about the death penalty. for the poor and. rich people generally don't go to. poor people do. i mean if you've got the resources if you're wealthy if you're rich if you've got your own private attorneys and you can hire investigators and you have witnesses you're not to go to death row support people that can't fight back they don't have the resources if you don't have those resources the chances of you

being convicted or dramatically at that point. join me. how.

when i don't think this is knowing something something they don't know yet but i mean don't. run. missing mom up this week don't tell me i'm a strong mean it's. done. some emotions. it's. very i'm certain. things. and the baby had a fever of $38.00 so point $30.00 we're hoping that's. ok .

once the sentence is pronounced it is almost impossible to reverse it. when somebody is convicted once there's a conviction in place the state very rarely ever backs off i mean they they will proceed as though you are completely guilty from that point on the state will not back. not going to stop until it's over. cases where prosecutors say. the case which will have been convicted and prosecutors will fight that they don't want this d.n.a. tested because they already have a conviction. conviction technically. for the. technically she is guilty. but. in exchange.

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the. her daughter in law refused to believe that melissa would have hurt mariah. to go through that it was an accident caused by. we went to see the body before. they brought her out i mean we had that in our head what happened was. they said she had trauma she had trauma to the head. and she had a broken arm. but that could have been from the. only one i have in the whole shooting a body year and

a half old. i don't believe it was melissa they did it. i don't. they were i mean there was a houseful of children i mean small kids i mean i don't know i honestly don't believe it was her. i don't mean bone in her body i mean she never disciplined these kids so i remember her yearning you know but. no. i never know the senators and i wish you would if. you could all these kids. they've been through a lot richard try to hate him so. he try to hang himself. using this because of what they want to do harm. one of their mom. and imagine going from foster care to foster care. and somebody else's.

you need your mom. to listen to was a good mother. following the arrest of elisa luce show the family was broken apart and the children were placed in homes all over texas. they have never seen their mother again. i don't know why my sister sitting on death row i didn't go to society having 13 children. there just doesn't make any sense that i'll. have anybody that sat through that trial knows that my sister's child was the circus it was just awful. she stood no chance. she stood no chance we tried to be going everywhere pro bono everybody $150.00 just started 150008 star or do we come up with that money you can sell everything and we still don't have that money do you feel that her attorneys were treated for the trial

nope not at all. not at all. sister believes that the lawyers assigned to the case botched the trial. they never interrogated her family or any of her children. says. this is where she live. nor did they investigate and mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. we. could have been the cause of her head trauma. from here they were moving and in between that time that accident happened to me how i mean my sisters moving. whatever she had. time to abuse. the younger boys are the ones that dated.

saw. it was just coming from the smaller children m.r. i have fallen down the stairs. i mean a baby i mean she had no. role or protect herself and she could have been hitting her head as she was falling down and then hit her last. question to the head. right there. which was witnessed by i. was never taken into account by the even though they had told this to the police when their mother was arrested. despite the evidence that was never taken into account. all failed. her last job is to appeal to the u.s.

supreme court. she's on gainesville death row. this is the 1st time she's been interviewed about this crime she has always maintained her innocence. of the thing before. we welcome so. me how long have you been. in texas. on death row i've been here. going on 9 years on august 12th will be 9 years. did you ever think that something like this would happen. you know. you do feel that used to the chance when the struggle the trial the no you know now. why is that. because the. i think the jury when the jury walked in and they saw.

they saw these pictures of my daughter. and i'm sure they. they agreed with what the district attorney was in no trying to convince them that i was guilty so i think they came they came in already thinking that they were going there accused me and by me guilty of. benaud. murdering my daughter. and how many of your appeals have been the night to. one appeal live so that means my last appeal will go into the u.s. supreme court so that will be my last resort and thereby get the night there then i get an execution date. you see here.

i wouldn't say i'm scared. i just feel for my children now. not being able to. say goodbye to them. in this that's. what's your biggest regret. who. not being the mother that i should have been to my children. being. a drug addict. put my drugs before patil great. i think that's my biggest regret. you know everybody you know they they hear about that role when they won

a you know put a tag on a cent and that were the worst of the worst and we're not you know some of us deadly lead awful lives out there but we're not. the person that they're accusing us of being in if there is if there are some women on that road that are guilty of the charge you know something was going on with them up in the world that led them to do what they did but. nobody can nobody should inject anybody because everybody sins every day nobody's perfect we all make mistakes a statement that could be her last words thank you thank you so what. is the next woman on the list of those to be executed in texas. when the.

elderly all right thank you only the supreme court can save her now. in arlington in south texas her family is also preparing for the worst. when they meet they remember happy times as if to ward off the misfortune times when melissa lucio danced to her brother's music. and. 6 that. that was one of melissa's favorite that was the one time voice is something you can count on when you play they have. grown up this is kind of like must i do more with my mom the older. little monster which is not sure where she

ever flows mosharraf rose she heard her say she was a liberal but you know it wasn't you know. to be merged. with just. i'm just scared it's. it's. tragic i think about it because i think how can i be happy how can i. have a life and she. i have a love letter that i'm using and i don't know it and then. i'm scared this is kind of you know. how kids know we don't see here is why i don't want to be counted because i'm scared to leave i'm. going to see you you still see you you're not open . process she has no political voice you hear that.

there's no hope. and it's all been said. if she was a heated new year she chose you go. go. overseas to go but i would go. for the families of those on death row is torture. and unbearable waits and often in comprehensible punishments whether these women are guilty or innocence .

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