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and self isolate. and this is tatarstan russia's central republic where almost 4000000 leave the 1st region where a system of s.m.s. control over all our movements was introduced it means you cannot leave your house until you send a message to local authorities with your personal data and explain your purpose and most importantly until you get a positive response to your quest. tatarstan was the 1st but not the last. good followed with a q.r. code control system the system has been created for your convenience and for helping the earth or its he's responsible for your safety but still the main thing i'm counting on when we talk about the self isolation order is your consciousness and sense of responsibility. in russia's siberia and east of the famous lake baikal a massive war has been waged not only against the coronavirus. so
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probably people found out there would be no sale of alcohol starting today from social networks and so they started to come not just come they bought everything we had and again moskos stepped in reminding people that it is not alcohol that the world and russia are fighting now but call that 191 stores reopen their doors with bottles back on the shelves again. but some regions still remain carefree saying they don't see any reason for any quarantine if we don't have that many people in fact as i don't think it's necessary to moscow i have a mask and protection stuff like 7 times there's. but while hoping for the best people are preparing for the worst of the couple's everybody's kid on the eve of its arnold. and with the russian authorities stressing that the peak of the damage is still to come this is what people all of course russia need to be ready for.
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the picture currently across russia will not is how is so today's top news stories are looking for an hour i'll be back in under 30 with all your lives. more great r t programs get their start in moments. well. as i. say how are you doing. you know. i believe that we want to knock at the end and seanna not in the appeal that we now have a child. and over. i don't get to pick a point but we have a level to make and that. he can carry can't get on. it i think what if. you can't name one. copy. of a crime or not. i had gosh if i could possibly greenlighted or one of the
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part of a mastermind he ned. out again and one person could get on you then another. population. committed even more our ages and i think john the 3rd and extremely broken and i think a lot of women here like her straight probably not that dumb kalki and that sort of not just myself it should be subtle just at the. times where you just wanted to end that 1st many many times the years in which you know how you don't wake up again. to let me die it's hard to find their value for yourself when you know you have no human contact so that anybody gets convicted of something it's outrageous you're in automatically. away from that person to stop or topical because you don't want to be associated and there's a can somebody to lie. and not much and that's reporting. to look at the
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way and develop a copy and then let it go. by democracy when you're a nominee we have to wrap this up now we have to get oh ok well thank you so much. thank you great. thank you good luck to you too. like many women on death row 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. in 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. the only one who continues to write to her as her daughter jasmine. she was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced to death. events of her any sense this nightmare haunts her
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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 is no day that goes by i don't think about her. i wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. and tire and put her in my closet. that none of this would happen that she wanted ended up. over there when she got framed for she did. i was a kid that had a pretty decent life. to nothing. to lower than nothing you were 17 at the time you're a student what have the stock. dropped out. my family turned their back on me.
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i lived in a tent in the middle of winter time just to survive. people emailing me and said my family should be in state. they said that it was my fault. that i shouldn't be here. i should be dead. i hated america. as still do. and i love my country but i hate the people. who sometimes you're. the phone call that would tell you that your mom might be executed yes. but if it so that i want to be there. i want her to be my face not the people around her that want her dead
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person that wants her there. in a few of my generation before us well i phone willing to take that risk. her mother's execution seems inevitable. unless she can finally have a new trial. 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 976 only 6 women have been released. we met one of them and nashville tennessee. michelle byron spent 14 years on death row convicted for plotting the murder of her husband who beat her she was released in 2015 and died in 2019
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she lived in a home for battered women. this shelter 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. the double mastectomy and lived with her spirit serious systems and what they say yesterday everything. no cancer in the bones. they had miscarried there for a while. like to go you know do some traveling you know everything. right now you know the thing is about saving money but you know what you know. in this place and so. if it wasn't for this place. i would be living under a bridge. while you have had a lot of farce here you got your 1st cell phone yes but 1st very very self
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we got to be part of the 1st text and found calls that later by. now you're at it yes. teaching myself. michelle byron receives a retirement pension of $600.00 a month and less than a year she will 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. all that's being wrongfully. now i think 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 you know. so now you're on your own and so i don't know. i've come through too many obstacles. to let it
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get me down. 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 and the 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 said it's on the news. and on the news and i said. 16 to be executed in 8 hours
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her sentence was overturned. michelle byron always claims you're 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 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 it. and that's why i couldn't understand why all of us.
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everybody turned against. us and what they do want to do that 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.m. and they had taken a mammogram at the prison so they knew i had it. what does it mean. 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. to free in the eyes of the law she was not pardoned she remained guilty consequently
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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. 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. a wasted life 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 who reexamined to michele byers proceedings. he believed from the start that her guilt was unfounded and that she needed to be released in the michelle byron
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case while i was on the court in 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place and keep her on death row 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 i wrote my opinion oliver diaz now retired has never forgotten michel byers case which remains his greatest regret. since then he's made a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of the death penalty. a 2 tier system where the poorest are condemned in advance. rich people generally don't go to death row poor people do. i mean if you've got the resources if you're
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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 going 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 go up dramatically at that point.
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once the sentence is pronounced it is almost impossible to reverse it. once 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 off it's sort of like the arnold schwarzenegger terminator movie is not going to stop until it's over i've seen cases where prosecutors have. there's newly discovered d.n.a. in a 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 in place why risk overturning that conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. technically she is guilty.
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but. in exchange the state has said she served all the time that she needs to serve . means that she can sue the script so how much how much money which she has been it's a little too much to i think it's about $100000.00 a year for each year that you serve wrongfully sort of something around there so she would be gaining something somewhere over a $1000000.00 probably she'd served over 10 years on death row. more than a $1000000.00 not counting medical expenses but how can you defend yourself when you're poor and about to be executed. during our investigation we were able to verify the statements of this former supreme court judge. virtually all women on death row are indeed poor public defender and the speedy trial. in texas another case caught our attention.
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that of a woman accused of killing her 2 year old daughter. who was 40 when she was convinced that in 2008 the media barely covered the story the case of a poor drug addicted hispanic woman mother of 13 children generated no interests. her sister and her daughter in law refused to believe that melissa would have hurt mariah. it was an accident caused by a. we went to see the body before they brought her out i mean we had that in our head and. they said she had trauma. to the head. and she had a broken arm the. only one i have.
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i don't believe it was melissa that. 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. body i mean she never disciplined these kids i remember her yelling you know but i . i've never known the senators and i wish you. could all these kids. 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 with. one of them.
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and imagine going from foster care to foster care. and somebody else's. you need your mom. my sister 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 i do you know society having 13 children. it 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 100008 star or do we come up with that money you can sell everything and we still
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don't have that money do you feel that her attorneys 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. this is. this is where she lives. nor did they investigate an accident that mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. with. a fall down the stairs could have been the cause of her head trauma so from here they were moving and in between that time that accident happened so to me how i mean my sister is moving stuff so. whatever she had where would she have time to abuse. the younger boys are the ones that
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stated that mariah fell i don't even think. saw when she fell the kid still was just coming from the smaller children m.r. i have fallen down the stairs. 13 stairs down. i mean a baby i mean she had she didn't know how to. roll or protect herself and she could have been hitting her head. she was falling down and then had her last. course they say she had to come 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
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to the u.s. supreme court. meanwhile she's on gainesville death row with slim chance of escaping execution. this is the 1st time she's been interviewed about this crime she has always maintained her innocence. and the thing before. you welcome so tell 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. do you ever think that something like this would happen. you know. huge do you feel that used to when the try to go no no no.
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because they. i think the jury when the jury walked in and they saw. they saw these pictures of my daughter. i'm sure they. they greed 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 me and by me guilty of. benaud. 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
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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 bit. 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 in my dreads before battle group. i think that's my biggest regret.
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you know everybody you know they they hear about their role when they won a you know put a tag on as and 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 any if there is if there are some women on that road that are guilty of the charge in no 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.
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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 paper yeah sure. growing up which was kind of like my savior more when my mom didn't want the older. little monster but she's not sure yet she
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ever froze mosharraf row she heard her say she was a liberal but. it wasn't. to be merged. with just. i'm just scared. it's. tragic 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 to i don't know. i'm scared to see 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 a. problem says she does no good google is here. where.
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there is still hope. and he's able to say. if she was and he did near future would you go. to what we both. know by suits who go but i would go. for the families of those on death row. it's torture. and unbearable waits and often uncomprehensible punishments whether these women are guilty or innocence .
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is the number of hospitalisations double the mirror of moscow announces a puff system to monitor movement saying too many people are still plying with self isolation. the us becomes the 1st country to register to thaw isn't corona virus deaths in a single day refrigerated trailers and must graves are now seen in the main infections hotspot new york as the city struggles with rising fake talisay he says . i mean if you sent over if you sent over if you sent the change of experience to be despondent meets speed is that feeling of helplessness the fact that you don't
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know you can do. just through good.

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