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no dares thinks. we dare to ask. strategist financial survival does. when customers go by you're disappointed. in health well reducible our. best undercutting but what's good for food market is not good for the global economy. jackson in georgia. a town of 4000 people in the southern united states. a place where executions in the nearby prison are way of life. in
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a few hours one will take place by lethal injection. punishing me children ladies happening around here and i am i'm with the death penalty i think people get what they deserve my pain and i think that's how he should be put in the family physical harm if they. do a felony or you know a lot of children getting a good show over the fire yes definitely. 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 present. but i don't think it's right and states shouldn't be taking laws of
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anybody no matter what the circumstances and so i feel responsible but i need to be dinner and make a stand until it stops since 977 there has been 1460 executions in the us. a large majority of those executed are blacks or latinos or people in general mostly men but also women. the last 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 some downer is set to die of 7 pm by lethal injection she was convicted of murder for the 1997 stabbing of 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 i also know that we're
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still fighting $2.00 your face this is not over there's a reason that we didn't get to see her today and hopefully that such as we're going to see her again this weekend that they. even pope francis played hurricanes but kelly gets him down or was it hard. her final words were broadcast on t.v. and on the radio. hosts like. you. just. go. to so she's going to. go on september 30th 2015 at 12 21 am kelly gets in that or was executed she was. 47 years. in the united states
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out of the 2843 inmates on death row 54 are women they are incarcerated in 16 different states across the country. were granted permission to interview 3 of them. have been on death row for over 15 years. in the county florida. had been charged with the most unspeakable crimes violent acts that resulted in. the plane the. girl and her father. black white or hispanic they all have a troubled past and a common mix with drugs sexual abuse and extreme violence these 3 prisoners are considered among the most dangerous in the country they live in solitary confinement. contact with their fellow prisoners as for. their families these terrible conditions. lawyers fight day and night to delay their executions
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in the distance from this is the police some are convinced of their innocence. that shelter. was not. chiles court appointed lawyers and scripture judges and prosecutors the families believe that the deck was stacked against that anybody that set that trial at my sister's trial was a circus that was just awful even when they're proven and the sentence the nightmare continues. that. this is the unknown world of men on death row. used in texas the city was the scene of a strange and atrocious crime. that child kidnapping and. on the
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side that led to the arrest of linda. this 43 year old woman who lives in a porn neighborhood known for drug trafficking neighbors joanna. and her mom. had just moved to the united states from mexico. they just had a baby 2 days earlier. is believed to have devised a plot to steal their 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's was safe and sound. the car belonged to linda carter.
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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 the world. if you told anyone. tell you about him getting a baby and not have a days you haven't told anybody that i. know i said i should have been having a baby 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 in fact that i'm going to cry big you. may hear it. i don't even not be afraid of i'm mad oh now i'm getting fat all everybody 5 the mother i may be quote the body was in my car.
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this. would have been executed in. the united states for 16 years. more than $4000000.00 trying to. hold. it. so this would have been the original police.
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became one of the biggest pieces of evidence in the truth. because this was the police with. the video of 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. that handled this case they withheld evidence the witnesses reported 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
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and there was no fair trial why was the prosecution. in seeking the death penalty when considering the evidence in the car he would have certainly been sentenced to life in texas especially. to win elections you have to be seen as being someone strong someone strong on crime is important and so if you have a judge that lets criminals loose or criminals when the opponents will come in and say this judge is weak on crime and they lose. that card he sentenced to death in the border for the prosecutors to win an election. no no the ones that admitted doing this the ones that admitted putting your in the truck the ones today admitted leaving
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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 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. we were granted permission to meet lynda carter with a strict agreement with her lawyer not to speak about her case. a 16 minute
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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 example want to. describe to be home how's your life your. moments up and down. and it depends on the status of your appeal. because you could be quite euphoric at some times and then all of a sudden you're caught in that. you know whenever a case is denied every time i talk about that i want to cry because it's difficult shouldering 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
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hard it's hard dealing with it and i try and i try to put it on the back but 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 and my daughter my friends helping me to clear my name that i will become a burden for anyone for the rest of my life.
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i'm going to fulfill this is probably to the people come on you know weeks or bots. there's. really. very very. very you want to work. you know. all.
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the times where you can't teach it anymore. i have a daughter that i went to where the law i truly love and it's this place is enough of a bargain for her. self for me to try to commit suicide or to give up or anything. i feel as though i would fail my child she's had kids she has 2 boys i have 2 grandsons and even i've met one you know because we're not allowed to have visits with our 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 you all the sad. other than. into them every 90 days like all
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women on death row linda carter who has no physical contact with her family visits are always behind the bulletproof glass. these special and maids are separated from the rest of the prison population. they are in total isolation locked in tiny cells. they're not allowed. on the wall. awakened every morning at 3 am 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 a mental and emotional torture that also affects their children and grandchildren. daughter tries her best to maintain family ties with her mom whose life is on hold
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. 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 the. copies of all of these photos and we try to send as many as possible the boys try to send as many cards as they possibly can so. they write letters. trying to keep in contact. dated on what's going on are. you going. to have never seen the grandmother that they hear about all the time and who will one day learn the truth about her crime. usually have my mom with the newest announcement here anything that's new it's cool or anything like that picture will be the one that's got the news announcement next
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to it. that's the way for everybody yes. she's always included and the kids as you know all the time. all the time mother's day was always pretty difficult at our house. one of the questions what kind of questions were there is the normal questions you know house they're doing was last time we talked to nana or we when are we going to be able to go see 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 rules duval only has one picture of her mother 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
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a cell. all day off 23 hours a day. nonstop. and the one hour that she gets to come out of this cell where she is 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. to tell me that it's not enough punishment. how does that make you feel i'm worried about you know is she going to be sane. because how long can you maintain being by yourself. for year after year after year with no one to talk to her. it is your standard you go. not surprisingly many who are condemned to death madness long before being executed.
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arizona a place in the middle of the desert close to the mexican border. this community of only 30000 people is a mixture of newcomers trappers and vigilante groups who tried to prevent migrants crossing the border. when militia was responsible for the biggest slaughter in the region. led by 42 year old shawna forde now sentenced to death for executing a mexican family she suspected of trafficking drugs. her friend lane wallace has also educated her life to stop illegal immigrants and 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
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a 47 or an a r 15 you really shouldn't go out to places where there's drug smugglers to not carry along because i made something. seana fores organization was a nationalist militia which claimed 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 and. there's an extremely dangerous paragraphs matter of fact so dangerous that i'm refusing to bring the order. of 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 for getting the
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poor of the poor 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 that's a shot of for a minute an american defense. elaine 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 scapegoats for the murders. this is the house where the air of arca massacre happened at about 12 45 am on a friday night. several intruders burst into that house they were supposedly 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. shannon ford was
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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. and your flores 9 and her father rolled florus died on the spot with a bullet in the head the 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 they shot him in the head in the head though they're the people who are there that shot him. on the phone the assailants who heard her came back inside the house to eliminate the only
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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. how many people were there i don't know and like male they're talking there with a male in the. woman. ok now the woman thought it he looked like me. making these just coming in to join us for he was really 3 people have been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion. after
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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 ackerley sana for his lawyer believe there is no evidence that his client was present at the scene of the kind. which he claims proves shawn affords innocence. we see a mysterious woman carrying a weapon similar to the one found at the scene of the kind. this woman's identity is still unknown today. in the 1st place gina guns all as 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
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a woman came in who was dressed completely differently and had her hair done completely different way and she identified her as being a heavy set 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 found in the forest front yard this is also. 357 handgun with a finger and intuitions i believe that shawna forde was not present when these
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homicides occurred she was. this is also. 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. yes. ok thank you. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm showbusiness i'll see of that.
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everywhere. oh how loud as i show my wife down at the end and how are you doing. you know that i believe that we have shown a knock at the door and a shot and the appeal that we now to file. and over carrying and i don't get to fix it and i'm going to get out a lot of the make and get all of it out very trying to get off the trial that i declared it abandoned me and how do you keep making my. copy of forget that i am at the scene of a crime are not. big aha i have got shit i probably greenlighted or was a part of that after my name it hasn't been used and wrong person to get your.

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