tv Documentary RT November 15, 2020 7:30am-8:01am EST
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hey, how are you doing? you know, i believe that we want to knock up again and sean and the appeal that we now have a mile and over to get to that point that we had a little to make and he told her you can't get on it. i think what it looked and it mean and how do you keep making one copy of a crime or not? because i had cashed it. i probably greenlight it or one of the part of a masterminding 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 spirit that come kelpie and that sort of not just
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myself. it shifts the whole job for times where you just wanted to end it. there's many, many times, years in which you know how 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 that anybody gets convicted of something, it's outrageous or an automatic plea. 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 to look at the way and develop a copy and then let it go. but i did not personally when you're at home. we have to have this up now. we have to get. oh ok. well thank you so much. i don't. thank you . good luck on not. thank you. good luck to you. thank
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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. 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 and put her in my closet
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. 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 emailing me and said, my family should be instinct. they say that it was my fault. that i shouldn't be here and that i should be dead. i hated
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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 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 in a fair way to enrich me for rest while 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
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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, and 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 underwent a double mastectomy, and lived with her spirit systems. you know what they say yesterday. everything.
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no cancer in the bones. it's wonderful. they had me scared there for a while. i'd like to go, you know, do some traveling, you know, everything right now, you know, 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. you have had a lot of farce here. you got your 1st cell phone? yes, but 1st, very, very self. we got to be a part of the 1st text and found calls that live by. now you're teaching myself here. 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
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start all over again with no compensation from the state. all this after being wrongfully think, i don't even get the money that you get when you leave prison. i mean get ahead and you are. i didn't think you would 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 to what michelle byron went through is inconceivable. after 14 years on death row, she was suddenly released just a few hours before being executed. you know, 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
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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. so i turned 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
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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 did they wanted you 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
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said that i have had it for years. at the stage it was c.n.n. and they had taken a mammogram, it 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.
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my hopes have been taken away from me. i mean so much as 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 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,
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another 11 years or so after i wrote 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, sources, if you don't have those resources, the chances of you being convicted are go up dramatically at that point.
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even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. is the us making amends for that tragedy and help to the people need in that little 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 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.
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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 means that she can sue money, which i think it's about $100000.00 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 about to be executed?
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in 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 we went to see the body before they brought her out. i mean,
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we had that in our head. what happened was they said she had trauma, trauma to the head. and she had a broken arm from the only one i have a buddy year and a half old i don't believe it was with us. so 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. i don't mean bone in her body. i mean, she never disciplined these kids. i remember her yelling, you know, but i mean the kids i've never known the senators and i wish you would if you could all these it's they've been through a lot, richard try to hate him. so he tried to hang himself using
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this because of what they want to do wrong. one of their mom and imagine going from foster care foster kid and somebody else's you need your mom. my sister was a good mother. following the arrest of milly's 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
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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 start 850002 start or do we come up with that money? you can sell everything and we still don't have that many. do you feel that her attorneys for sit through 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 says this is where she live. nor did they investigate an accident that mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. we could have been the cause of her head trauma from here they were moving. and in between that time that
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accident happened to me how i mean, my sister is moving stuff and 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 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 hit her last. they say she had a concussion to the head right there.
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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, have all failed. her last job is to appeal to the u.s. supreme court. she's on gainesville death row, with 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 you welcome. so tell me, how long have you been on death row? i've been here going on one year on august 12th will be 9 years.
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did you ever think that something like this would happen? and i hope, you know, you do feel that used to when the struggle, the trial only on, 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. and i'm sure they they agreed with where 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 the no murder in my daughter
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and how many of your shows have been and i will i will 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 not being able to say goodbye to them. elice. that's what your biggest regret is. who not being the mother that i should have been to my children being
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a drug that it put my dreads 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 scent and that were the worst of the worst. and we're not, you know, some of us deadly lead aqua 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
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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 and 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
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that was one of melissa's favorite, that was the one time voice is something you can count on when you say they have grown up. this is kind of like, must, i do more with my mom? do you want older? maybe a little monster, but she's not sure yet. she ever froze. mosharraf roll. she ever heard the she was a liberal but you know, it wasn't, you know, to be a nerd. this is i'm just scared. it's trying to actually think about it because i think 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 just of you know
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how kids know we don't see her. that's why i don't want to be counted because i'm scared to do assume you still feel 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 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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but the margin is 80000 votes. it doesn't matter if all 10000 votes went for the defeated candidate, they cannot possibly catch up and that's where we are today. joe biden's margin is so large in all of the states that are being contested, that even though some other states have not finished counting, they still don't know who won. and joe biden won a majority of the electoral college votes 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 u.s. 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 to them. one that is
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