tv Documentary RT April 11, 2020 5:30am-6:01am EDT
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which. again. to let me die. for yourself when you know you have no human contact so. it gets convicted of something . you don't want to be associated and there's. not much to. develop and. i did not wish upon your i don't do we have to wrap this up now to get oh ok well thank you so much. thank you. thank you good luck to you too. 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
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her child. in 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. the only one who continues to write to 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 her name and moved out of state. you often think of her mother. all the time. there's no day that goes by i don't think rather. i wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. and tire put her in my closet. that none of this would happen that she want to end up. over there when she got
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framed for she did. i was a kid had a pretty decent. to nothing. to lower than nothing you were 17 at the time you're a student what how the stock. dropped out c. my family turned their back on me. i lived in a tent in the middle of the wintertime just to survive. people emailing 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.
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you sometimes you're. 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 last. a minute. to which me for the rest well i for willing to take that risk. her mother's execution seems inevitable. unless she can finally have a new child. in the united states very few women on death row managed to prove their innocence. lawyers can fight until the last minute but they are almost never able to overturn a decision. since no. 176 only 6 women have been released.
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we met one of them and nashville tennessee. convicted for plotting the murder of her husband who beat her she was released in 2015. 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 pneumonia as she underwent a double mastectomy and lived with. what they say yesterday. no cancer in the. life to go you know do some traveling you know everything. right now well this thing is about saving money
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but you know what you know. in this place. if it wasn't for this place. i would be living under a bridge. you have had a lot of here you got your 1st cell phone yes but 1st very. we got to be a part of the 1st text unfound call that was by. now you're. 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. nothing i don't even get to. money that you get when you leave prison i mean get
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ahead. and you are i didn't think you would know. so now you're on the ground and so are mile. i've come through too many obstacles. to let it get me down. 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
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she said you're not going to be executed you're free. and you know i've heard that so many times it's on the news. side turned on the news and i said michelle baron 6 to be executed in 8 hours her sentence was overturned. michelle byron always claims her innocent was. own 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 and. everybody was
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going to go for your new trial go see a new trial but then i found out. at the last minute there wasn't going to be a trial. and that's why 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 count this 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 at the prison so they knew i had it. what does it mean.
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for you taking no contest is to save their face so they don't get sick. 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. in taking my life to this day 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. the wasted life
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and a deep sense of injustice. this is also what a judge at the mississippi supreme court thought. oliver diaz was one of the 7 judges. he believed from the start. and that she needed to be released. while i was on the court and 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place. even though i had written an opinion urging the rest of my fellow judges to overturn that conviction because i thought there were problems and i thought it should be overturned she remained in prison and stayed there for i think another 11 years or so after. now retired has never forgotten michel. which remains. since. he's made
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a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of 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. the coronavirus has become a black swan event for the global economy is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession the question now is. the recession is
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going to get worse before it gets better. i don't trust medical authority at all ever and there isn't for that as i had this horrible autoimmune disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like diet has nothing to do with our meanest orders so my suggestion to people who have health issues they can't figure out if they're going to see a medical professional and they've been going for 10 years and they're still on 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.
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once the sentence is pronounced it is almost impossible to reverse it. when somebody is convicted once there's a conviction employees the state very rarely ever for me they will proceed as though you are completely guilty from that point on the state it's sort of like the arnold schwarzenegger terminator movie is not going to stop until it's over and i've seen cases where prosecutors say the there's newly discovered d.n.a. in the case which will tell you who should have been convicted and prosecutors will fight that they don't want this d.n.a. tested because they already have a conviction employees why risk overturning the conviction technically day for the state of mississippi is still iffy technically she is guilty. but. in exchange the state has said she served all the time that she needs to serve.
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means that she can't sue the script so how much too much money which she has been too little too much too i think it's about 100000. year for each year of. more than a $1000000.00 not counting medical expenses. when you're sick and about to be executed. another case. accused of killing her 2 year old daughter.
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when she was. in. the media covered the story the case of a poor drug addicted. mother. generated no interests. and her daughter in law refused to believe that melissa would have her. it was an accident. we went to see the body before. i mean we had that in our head and. they said she had trauma. to the head. and she had a broken arm. i
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don't believe it was but. they were i mean there was a house full of children. 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 i remember her yelling you know but i mean i said to her kids. in the home. i've never known the sun ever spanked i wish you would. look at these kids it's they've been through a lot richard trying to hate him so. he tried 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.
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you need your mom. to listen to was a good mother. following the arrest of elisa loose 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 a danger 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 even everywhere pro bono everybody 150 just started 150002 start 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 for for the trial nope not at
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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 lived. 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 happened to me how i mean my sisters moving. whatever she had. time to abuse. the younger boys are the ones that dated.
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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 she didn't know. her older protect herself and she could have been hitting her head as she was falling down and then hit her. they say she had a can to a concussion to the head. right there. which was witnessed by a. son's was never taken into account by the court even though they had told this to the police when their mother was arrested. despite the evidence that was never taken into account. state appeals have all failed. her last job is to appeal to the u.s. supreme court. she's on gainesville death row. this
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is the 1st time she's been interviewed. at this crime she has always maintained her innocence. and the thing before. we welcome so tell me how long if you. insist. 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. huge do you feel that used to chance when this trial the trial of the no you know now. why is that. because they. i think the jury when the jury walked in and they saw.
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they saw these pictures of my daughter. i'm sure they. they agreed with what the district attorney was you know trying to convince them that i was guilty so i think they came they came in already thinking that they were going there accused by me. you know. murdering my daughter. and how many of your appeals have been annoying to. i would appeal live so that means my last appeal will go into the u.s. supreme court so that will be my last resort and if i get the night there then i get an execution date. you see here.
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i wouldn't say i'm scared. i just feel for my children. now. not being able to. say goodbye to them. it is that's. what's your biggest regret. oh. i'm not being the mother that i should have been to my children. being. a drug that it. put my dreads before patil grit. i think that's my biggest regret. you know everybody you know they they hear about their role when they won
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a you know put a tag on a sin and that were the worst of the worst and we're not you know some of us did lee lead our lives out there but we're not the person that they're accusing us of being. and if there is if there are some women on that road that are guilty of the charge ino. something was going on with them out 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. all right big only the supreme court can save her now.
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in arlington and 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 says sonny he got on tape yeah. growing up this is kind of like must i do more with my mom the older. i made of the monster which is not sure where she ever
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froze mosharraf rose she ever heard the she was a liberal but move it wasn't enough. to be murdered. for this is. i'm just scared it's. trying to actually think about it because. how can i be happy how can i. have a life and she. i have a letter that i'm using it i don't know. i'm scared this is some of you know. how we don't see why i don't want to be counted because i'm scared to. do assume you're still sealed you're not open. it up says she does no good google is here. where. there is still hope. and is
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who dares thinks. we dare to ask. welcome to max geysers financial survival guide. looking forward to your special town. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain delegates i watched as a report. the swarms of them so moving. who was before. much of those who heard the preview are. slim we will. we will we're going to. move. move.
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party's headline news this april the 11th does the number of hospitalisations double the mayor of moscow announces a pos system to monitor movement saying too many people are still not complying with self isolation. the u.s. becomes the 1st country to register 2000 coronavirus deaths in a single day refrigerated trailers of mass graves and now. scene the main infections hotspot new york as the city struggles with rising fatalities i mean if you send. the change of experience to be disciplined to speed is that feeling of helplessness the fact that you don't all you can do. just to get the negative out.
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