again. to let me die. yourself when you know you have no human contact. but it gets convicted of something. to be associated and there's a kind somebody to. develop and let it go. but i did not and i don't do 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 daughter jasmine. she was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced to death. events of her any sense 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 about it. 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 wanted ended up. over there when she got

framed for she did. i was a kid i 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 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. no love my country but i hate the people.

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 less. in a fit my dad which made for us 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 a decision. since 976 only 6 women have been released.

one of them and nashville tennessee. 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. it was the only place that would accept this woman who was poor and seriously ill. after breast cancer contracted in prison and several pneumonias. and lived with. what they say yesterday ever. no cancer in the. head. like to go you know do some traveling you know everything. right now well the

thing is about saving money but you know what you know. in this place. if it wasn't for this place. i would be living under a bridge. while you have had a lot of here you got your 1st yes but 1st. we got to be a part of the 1st calls that. 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. i don't even get the money that you get when you only. i mean get ahead.

and you are i didn't think you would know. so now you're on your own 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

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 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 abuse. 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 a trial. and that's why i couldn't understand why all of us. everybody turned against. to and what they do want to do that they said take the plea play 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 ian and they had taken a mammogram and 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. 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 the machine 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 case which remains his greatest regret.

since. he's made a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of the death penalty. a 2 tier system where the poor and. 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. sources if you don't have those resources the chances of you being convicted are go up dramatically at that point join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

there 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 you the person who falsely confessed 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 one that isn't. it is almost impossible to. 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 say. 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 in place. conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. technically she is guilty. but. in exchange the state. that she needs to serve. me. 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. but how can you defend yourself when you're poor and about to be executed. we were able to. have 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 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. a buddy year and a half old. i don't believe it was melissa they did it. they were i mean there was a house full of children i mean small kids i mean i don't know i honestly don't believe it was her. that her body i mean she never disciplined these kids

so i remember her yelling you know but i mean the kids. now. i never know the senators and i wish you would if. you could all these kids they've been through a lot richard try to hate him so. he tried to hang himself. using this because of what they want to do wrong. 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 trial was a 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 start 850002 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 were fit 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. since.

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 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 last. concussion to the head. right there. which was witnessed by a. son 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. 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. you welcome so the. the whole long if you've been. in texas. 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 and i hope no. huge you feel that used to the chance when the struggle the tragedy only i don't 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. and 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 me and by me guilty of. you know. murdering my daughter. and how many of your appeals have been and 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 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 children now. not being 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 i children. 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 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 there 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. 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't put on paper yeah sure. growing up which was kind of like most a dream or a moment to the one older. little monster which is not sure where she ever flows mosharraf wrote she ever heard the she was a liberal but you know it wasn't you know. to be murdered. this is. i'm just scared. to proceed to.

try to actually think about it because i said how can i be happy how can i. have a life and she. i have a love letter that i'm using to i don't know the. scariest stuff you know. how kids know we don't see why i don't want to be counted because i'm scared to. do a c. oh you're still sealed you're not open. process she has no political voice here and that. there is no hope. and settle down so. if she was a heated new year she chose to go ahead. what would it go. overseas to global growth.

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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