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over there when she got 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 winter time 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 phone 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 it this is. since 976 only 6
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women have been released. we met 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. to me 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 you know
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this thing is about saving money but you know what you know. in this place is. 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 yes but 1st very. well you got to be a part of the 1st calls that live by. now you're. a 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.
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ok i don't even get the money that you get when you only. i mean you can get ahead . and you are i didn't think you would know. so now you're on the ground and so i don't know. i've come through too many obstacles. to let it 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 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 now she says it's on the news. and on the news and. 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
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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 a trial. and that's why i couldn't understand why all of us. everybody turned against. to and what did they 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 countess because i had cancer i found out a month after i was finally released that i had 3rd stage breast cancer. and they 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.
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for you taking 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 buyer's 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 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 a. wasted life and
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a deep sense of injustice. this is also what a judge at the mississippi supreme court. oliver diaz was one of the 7 judges who reexamined. proceedings. he believed from the start that her guilt was unfounded and that she needed to be released in. case while i was on the court in 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place to 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. oliver diaz now retired has never forgotten michel case which remains his greatest regret. since
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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. 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 right. sources if you don't have those resources the chances of you being convicted are go up dramatically at that point. max keiser financial survival guide stacey let's learn a ballot fill out let's say i'm a strike at. the fight wall street fraud thank you for.
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you know those will sleep we'll wish sleeves. to. probable cause you are sure. i can forward it doesn't capture a message to put a gun. you've got to go with us cause all of this to do just about because those doing good medium we will see in the media is with who would seem the most senior moments he was by his emotions to be someone put in your city's come home and use new. the 20th century was thing in a revolution the great depression and world war the 21st century of mental illness . those aren't my words that's what surfaced some psychiatry's to tell us the only question is should we accept it as a fact. this
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is a story of women and women with troubled histories and complex court cases. some. believe. where nat is the person that. the cheesiness and they are considered the most dangerous of criminals she's in a still. mouthing off 23 hours of the day tell me the. world of women on death row.
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the world is driven by dreamers shaped by life and person of those but. i am. no dairy thinks. we dare to ask. it is almost impossible to. somebody is convicted once there's
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a conviction in place the state very rarely ever i mean they they will proceed. completely guilty from that point on the state will. not going to stop until it's over i've seen cases where prosecutors say. 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. conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. technically she is guilty. but. in exchange. that she needs to serve. money which. i think it's about $100000.00
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a year for each year that. something. somewhere over a $1000000.00 probably. more than a $1000000.00. but how can you defend yourself when you're poor and. poor public defender. another case. accused of killing her 2 year old daughter. it was 40 when she was convinced that in 2008 the media barely covered the story the
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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. to go through that 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 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 . a body year and a half old. i don't believe it was melissa the did it. i don't.
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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 yelling you know but i mean the kids. in the home. i would never know the numbers and i wish you would. look at these. 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. and imagine going from foster care to foster care. him. somebody knows. you need your mom. mr was
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a good mother. following the arrest of middle east solution 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 idea to society having 13 children. there just doesn't make any sense that all. men have been through that trial knows that my sister's child was the sir she stood no chance we tried to be going everywhere pro bono everybody 150 just started 150008 star or do we come up with that many you can sell everything and we still don't have that many do you feel that her attorneys for the trial nope not at all. not at all. believes that the
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lawyers assigned to the case botched the trial. they never interrogated her family or any of her children. since. 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 to me how i mean my sister is moving stuff so. whatever she had where will she have time to abuse. the younger boys are the ones i dated. i don't even. saw. the kids it was just coming from the smaller children. m.r. i have fallen down the stairs. 13 stairs down. i mean
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a baby i mean she had she had no. role or protect herself and she could have been hitting her head as 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 to the u.s. supreme court. she's on gainesville death row slim chance of escaping execution. this is the 1st time she's been interviewed about this crime
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she has always maintained her innocence. and they're saying before. we welcome so tell me how long have you been. 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 have been. you know. huge you feel that you stupid when this the trial of the no you know. because they. i think the jury when the jury walked in and they saw. they saw these pictures of my daughter. but i'm sure they.
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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 me and by me guilty of. benaud. murdering my daughter. and how many of your peers have been the one 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 if i 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
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children. not. not being able to. say goodbye to him. 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 battle group. i think that's 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 ascent 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
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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 their mark and 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 sir as well. as 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.
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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't put on paper yeah sure. growing up which was kind of like my savior more than my mom the older. little monster which is not sure where she ever flows mosharraf wrote she ever heard the she was a liberal but moved it wasn't enough. to be a murder. just. i'm just scared
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it's. preceded. 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 she said if you're. happy you don't see why i don't want to be because i'm scared to meet. you assume you're still sealed you're not a. problem since she was a good girl is here. where. there's still hope. and is that. if she was a good new year she chose you go. what would it go.
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overseas. for the families of those on death row. it's torture. and unbearable weights and often in comprehensible punishments whether these women are guilty or innocence .
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they are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and then one that isn't. biden claims victory but what about those who voted for trump all these they now know my president pain is europe they think another wave of terrorism is me a liberal ideology showing signs of exhaustion. their personal soup will wish to be sure but. the truth to the
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lovable was your choice to keep the. border doesn't actually matter the age to put have been murdered by. you to go there when you're all of those who do because those told me again we will see in the movie confused with seemingly small business but i is the most severe some of it is in your speech come on and use the i'm. the 20th century was thing in or of revolution the great depression and world wars the 21st century of mental illness. those aren't my words that's what surfaced some psychologists tell us the only question is should we accept it as a fact. or no.
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