and yet here. the 20th century was the era of revolution the great depression and world wars the 21st is the century of mental illness. those aren't my words that's what therapists and psychiatrists tell us the only question is should we accept it as a fact. or no. well . as i. say how are you doing. you know. i believe that we want to knock at the end and shawn and me appeal that we now have a child. and over again. i don't get to pick a point that we have a little to make and that. he can carry to get on. a diet i think what it means how do you keep making one. copy. at the scene of

a crime or not. i had gosh it i probably greenlight it or well it's a part of a matter of finding it. 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 said. that come kelpie and that sort of not just myself it should be the whole job the 1st. times where you just wanted to end it there's many many times the years in which you know how come 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 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. you need to have to look at the way and develop a copy and then let it go. by democracy when you're a nominee we have to wrap this up now yeah 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 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 the. events of her any sense this nightmare haunts her 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 about her. i wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. and tire up 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 how the stock. dropped out. 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 in state. they said that it was my fault. that i shouldn't be here. i should be dead. i hated america. has still do. and i love my country but i hate the people. you sometimes hear. 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 person that wants her there. are less of. a minute to tell which way for the rest 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 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 pneumonias sheet. to double mastectomy and lived with her spirit serious systems when they say yesterday everything. no cancer in the bones. they had a miscarriage or 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 is help me do that. 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 self 9 we got to be a part of the 1st text and found calls that later by. now you're a. 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 this can be. nothing i don't even get the money that you get when you leave prison. i don't even get it. i don't get it. and you are i didn't think you were there 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 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 she said you're not going to be executed you're free. and you know i've heard that so many. on the news. and on the news and i

said michelle baron 16 to be executed in 8 hours her sentence was overturned. michelle byron always claims sure in this there 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. everybody was going to go for your new trial go see a new trial but then i found out that. 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. to 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.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 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 even 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 michelle 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 my opinion oliver diaz now retired has never forgotten michel. which remains his greatest regret. since then he's made a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of the death penalty. for the poor 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 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. if you don't have those resources the chances of you being convicted dramatically at that point let's compare biden he comes into office potentially and this means that i believe we're going to see a repeat of 2008 remember obama took office and because obama was a pretty young guy the time didn't come through financing it was. a law student then very good with constitutional law but he didn't know anything about wall street he kind of threw the keys of wall street over larry summers and all these other folks and they went ahead and they created the global financial crisis. after a fact that seemed to benefit they can tell you there's

a remarkable way remember the billionaires after the 2008 crisis drupal and or more of their wealth while vast swathes of american population went bankrupt or lost their house so i'm pretty sure going to see a repeat of that. was a time to make no certainly no borders i'm just delighted to nationalities. as much time with the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged as commentary crisis what is interesting to moment. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created the response has

been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. it is almost impossible. somebody is convicted once there's a conviction in place the state very rarely ever i mean they they will proceed as though you are completely guilty from that point on the state will. 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. in that conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. technically she is guilty. but. in exchange the state. that she needs to serve. means that she can sue. money which. i think it's about $100000.00 a year for each year that you serve. something around there. somewhere over a $1000000.00 probably. more than a $1000000.00 not counting medical expenses. 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 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

she had trauma to the head. and she had a broken arm the. only one i have. a buddy year and a half old. i don't believe it was with us that. they were i mean there was a house full of children. kids 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 mean the kids. no. i never know the senators and i wish you would if. you could all these. 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. my sister was a good mother. following the arrest of a lisa 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 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 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 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 in movie and in between that time that

accident happened to me how i mean my sister is 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. they say she had a concussion to the head. right there. which was witnessed by a. son's 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. have 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. and the thing before. we welcome so tell. the whole 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. no. huge do you feel that you stood a chance when the struggle the trial no 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. 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 by me guilty of. the no. murder in my daughter. and how many of your appeals have been then i will. 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 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 i've. not been able to. say goodbye to them. in this does it. put your biggest regret. who. i'm not being the mother that i should have been to my children. being.

a drug addict. putting 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 sin 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 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. public 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 than my mom the older. little monster which is not sure where she ever flows mosharraf road she heard her say she was a liberal but. it wasn't enough. to be a murder. this is. i'm just scared it's. these. kids. trying to actually think about it because. how can i be happy how can i. have a life and she. i have a love letter that i'm using and i will not and then. i'm scared this is going to

hear. how kids know we don't see her that's why i don't want to be counted because i'm scared to eat i'm. going to see oh you're still sealed you're not open. process she has no political voice you hear that. there's no hope. and it's an old thing so. if she was executed me or 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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