well, as a child, i hate arguing, you know, i believe that we want to knock at the end and a shot and the appeal that we now have a child and over again, i don't get to pick some point that we have a little the making of that he told her you can't get on a diet. i think. what if the plan didn't mean? how do you keep making one copy of a crime or not? because i had, gosh, if i could possibly greenlighted it or one of the part of a masterminding it out again and one person could get on you then another 20 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 guilty 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 people richelle years in which you know, how come you don't wake up again to let me die. it hard to ponder value for yourself when you know you have no human contact. so that anybody gets convicted of something, it's outrageous. you're it automatically away from that person to stop or topical because you don't want to be associated. and there's a can somebody to live the dream and not much. and that's reporting. you need to look at the way and develop a copy again and let it go by. did not touch upon your involvement. we have to wrap

this up now. we have to get. oh ok. well, thank you so much. i don't think it's great. 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 as 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 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 it. 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. 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 person that wants her there. even if it might 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 pneumonia as she to double mastectomy and lived with her spirits harry assistance. and when 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 is help me do that. if it wasn't for this place, i would be living under a bridge. well, you have had a lot of fires here. you got your 1st cell phone? yes. but 1st, very self. we got to be part of the 1st text and found calls that later by. now you're yes. teaching myself here.

michelle byron receives a retirement pension of 600 dollars 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. on this can be nothing. i don't even get the money that you get when you leave prison. 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. she said, you're not going to be executed. you're free. and you know, i've heard that so many times. it's on the news. and on the news, 16 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 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 it 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 said that i have had it for years. at the stage it was c.m. . and they had taken a mammogram at 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 michele 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 then, 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. if you don't have those resources,

the chances of you being convicted dramatically at that point, the world is driven by shaped by one person. who dares thinks we dare to ask 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 timing didn't come through financing. he was a law student and 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 want to head and they created the global financial crisis. after a fact that seemed to benefit, they can tell you there's a remarkable way. remember that billionaires after the 2008 crisis all quadrupled 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 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 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. conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. technically she is guilty. but in exchange that she needs to serve me money, which i think it's about $100000.00 a year for each year that something

more than a $1000000.00 not counting medical expenses, but how can you defend yourself when you're poor and another case accused of killing her 2 year old daughter 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 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 a buddy in the household. i don't believe it was melissa the did it. i don't. 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. 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've never known this never spanked. i wish you would look at all 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 when their mom can imagine going from foster care to foster care in some somebody knows you need your mom. my sister was a good mother following the arrest of milly 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 . 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 many? we 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 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, which 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 that mariah fell. i don't even saw it was just coming from the smaller children. m.r. . i have fallen down the stairs. 13 stairs. i mean 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 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. she has always maintained her innocence.

and the thing 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. do you ever think that something like this would happen? you know, huge. you feel that used to win the struggle to try to? no, no, no, no 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 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 the one who 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 that's been what's your biggest regret? oh, i'm not being the mother that i should have been to my children being a drug addict put my drugs before patil group. i think as does my british secret you know, everybody, you know, they, they hear about that bro, when they won a, you know, put a tag on a scent and that were the worst of the worst. and we're not, you know, some of us deadly lead apu 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, you know, 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. ok. 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 says, sonny. on tape. yeah, sure. growing up, which was kind of like my savior more. mom on the older you get a little monster, which is not sure where she ever froze mosharraf roll. she heard the she was a little bit, but it wasn't enough to be a murder. this is i'm just scared. it's

tragic. i think about it because i have how can i really have to go? how can i have a life and she i have a love, it is a business. i don't know. i'm scared. she said, if you can't get in the if you don't see her, it's why i don't want to be counted because i'm scared to leave. you assume you're still sealed, you're not open. process, she was no good girl is that there's no hope and he settled down. so if she was executed new year, she chose you go to 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 innocent

seemed wrong. to me, yet to shape out. just because i took it and engaged it, equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, to look for common ground 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 confessed, actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. once a false confession, a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't

and i hope that all the steps we have taken recently will lead to the establishment of a long term peace for the benefit of both azerbaijan and armenia, russian peacekeepers head to the conflict zone after a peace deal is signed by on the net and azerbaijan. but the agreement doesn't go down well in god. protesters stormed the parliament and government buildings in the armenian capital, branding the treaty a defeat for their country. and.