gerry givens was appointed executioner in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven when the united states reinstated the death penalty. he grew up in the housing projects of richmond virginia. and remembers one tragic night at a party. when i was a teenager i witness a young lady. shot down by oh my. i want to. quote a young lady because. i was. told it. might be is that if a person take a life of about a person in that person's life taken and asked what i believe. gerry received training to operate the electric chair and later to administer a lethal injections. he became chief executioner in one thousand nine hundred two. i would say my team members take pride in the work that preparations. get in this person and ready place next step in life prepare him just to see is he it's for the last time and. a last kiss of his mother sister amy's wife or daughter . and all of human you know and this is one human that had made a mistake and we had to carry out the orders. outside of this team of eight jerry told no one about his work as an executioner not even his wife. we'll keep it a secret and

gerry mannederinging it feels scarey. >> but it's said that kennedy sidewood conservatives in the past. >> when you look at this term you see out of 19 decisions given 5-4 across political lines he votewood conservatives. >> she says regardless of political views lawyers felt he was more open minded than many of the other justices. >> so people would come to the sprout with difficult contentious cases and at least know they would have a listening ear. >> and that whether or not kennedy agreed with them they stod a chance of changing his mind. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> so president trump will now have his second opportunity to nominate a justice. gopped leaders say the senate will vote to confirm a successor this fall. but senator dianne feinstein says this tonight. we are now four months away from an election to determine the party that will control the senate. there should be no consideration of a supreme court nominee until the american people have a chance to weigh in. >> the supreme court struck a blow to union'ses today freeing public workers from paying due nas cover contract negotiations. it was a 5-4 votes. the high court ruling could cost un

given investors relief. stocks opening pretty high right now. ftse is up 1% and look at the dax, up more than 1 and a half. gerri: big deal. like wise in asia, stocks soaring. shanghai composite bouncing back over 2% and in hong kong up nearly 1 and a half percent. cheryl: investors will want to stay tune to fox business as maria bartiromo sets get to interview steven mnuchin, mick mulvaney and white house adviser ivanka trump and many more in washington. that's all this morning. fbn:am starts right now. ♪ ♪ gerri: good morning, it's 5:01 a.m. in new york. good morning, i'm gerri willis in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everybody, i'm cheryl casone. we begin this morning with 5 people gunned down and killed in a targeted attack at the capital gazette news room in maryland, suspect in custody, jerry ramos of maryland, ramos will go before judge this morning. he had a long-held grudge suing paper for defamation over reporting of him and raising social media campaign against them. >> this person was prepared to come in and this person was prepared to shoot people, intent was to cause harm. we know that there were

in the defense with a goalkeeper but the second goal obviously comfort it's now been given as an own goal against gerry schiff we thought it was and so the shot came in and it was from diego lax out this was on twenty three minutes and really didn't know too much about it i can fade no chance very bad start to kneel down and things would get worse thirty six minutes small because he said came in given his big we'll cut chance at right back and he blew it two yellow cards and off in the first half and when we show the third goal to kill bonny go they were shouting at us say they're still chanting so they're not you know that they're pretty pragmatic they understand that three when they still playing to celebrate two teams you haven't got too much of that forty now because they both out of the competition saudi arabia and egypt the sad thing is that we we have to say goodbye to players now on and one of those players that we have to say goodbye to is this fellow here mohammed's and i didn't play in the first game he had a shoulder injury that he got from the germans the final. you played in the second ga