and now it's the story of thomas an american who's execution. thirty years all the while professing his innocence a special documentary next on. huntsville texas. the man who we are coming to see at the prison of when should have been dead a long time ago he was to be executed by lethal injection. a man sentenced to capital punishment more than twenty years ago for a crime which he has always denied. but. i don't think you. would have thought that that would. make thanks. time has flown by never did we think we would see him alive again. but. one thousand years after our first encounter so many questions are left unanswered how did he stay alive has he changed will recognize each other. hello tell us for us here how are you this is him thomas miller. thank you. for. thomas and his amazing smile unchanged after so many years on death row the meeting is monitored closely next to us a warden and the man responsible for media in the prison we are being listened to. and our warrant we are given precisely one hour to interview thomas our time a short

actually the police were already waiting for thomas. at night when miller drove his car down a dead end the police ambushed him but they arrested and go as planned gunfire broke out. it is in front of this house that the shooting took place. this is said ninety eight to fifty one. when he saw the police thomas miller tried to escape. to try to get away through here. he was severely wounded by several gunshots he jumped on the car and started running. and was shot. and. we just we couldn't move his legs per hour. and then we heard. somebody how do you see the c. of the niggas be amigas be if you do it to. actually to me i told thomas that it certainly looked to me like he was supposed to been killed and that's the end of the story. and. but thomas didn't know that he didn't expect to be. to be stabbed in the back by his friend. in fact thomas miller was denounced by his friend john hicks he confessed to the robbery but associated miller with the murder of the young will tell clark. when you have a lot of people involved in a crime those

thomas miller has been down this path many times. we just start crying you're in the we're is gone you see what i'm doing you know don't let us lose all. because. you got. february july i'm a vendor of ninety four may august and october of ninety five january april and july ninety six february two thousand and two every day does nother delay for miller death leaves ten times and then returns in. this case it's completely in human and believe it or to have to go through the ten times in his life of what he's a never ending torture and we home team and take he said last day. delaying the execution that will take place behind these walls can happen the night before or even in the final few minutes. of bureaucratic error one last appeal by the lawyer for the mobilization of a few people may be enough to prevent this terrible and while the wardens and witnesses arrive at the walls the one who is to be executed is no longer master of the passage of time only one man stays close to him throughout his last hours. i was a chaplain and i was w

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mr thomas miller was not able to defend himself even if he could be present at the audience. any man presenting such depression pain and wounds wouldn't be able to endure such a stressful event even more so if the trial was a life or death decision. in two thousand and one thomas miller had been on death row for already fourteen years when his lawyer jim marcus finished his counter investigation which detailed the discrimination and irregular. artes of the trial. file was sent to the appeals court of texas. i thought we had so much evidence there is no way that we can. and then we basically was executed for late february twenty first two thousand and two. you know it was a sense of relief you know because like all our bureaus exhausted we now have a very left with some of the supreme court and you know livin on death row was like oh. this is like you know. in the beginning of two thousand and two this was the last chance the u.s. supreme court in washington is the highest in the land it is the only one capable of revoking a stiff made decision each year the supreme court rece

story of thomas an american who escaped execution still there has been behind bars for almost thirty years this is. the unofficial motto here is that we don't joke around in texas. this story happened to you but did you see that in that. we was for we believe that you know some of the things that we see on t.v. for a person we don't expose we execute him and we say you believe the system works like this is the real country. all of these inmates know that death row is an impossible place to escape from. throughout the years thomas miller's hopes of his case being revisited have faded away seasons past he has seen many of his companions depart for the execution room little to hold on to drink his weight just letters and a few visits by close friends or family who have also had to prepare for the execution. won't happen again but he fast me i'll go has your been confronted to an exhibit you know that my friend who have been executive on always wanted to take people they love from the trauma of looking at them dying. a few lawyers have tried to attack the texan system. jim marcus is one

throughout the years thomas miller's hopes of his case being revisited have faded away seasons past he has seen many of his companions depart for the execution room little to hold on to journey his weight just letters and a few visits by close friends or family who have also had to prepare for the execution. won't happen again but he cost me i'll go has your being confronted to an executor i know that my friend who has been executive only ways wanted to protect people and a lot from the trauma of looking at them die. a few lawyers have tried to attack the texan system. jim marcus is one of them and he made a one of a kind discovery. in his office of the law faculty of austin thomas miller case takes up a lot of space and eventually. jim marcus entered this case almost by chance in one thousand nine hundred four back then he was working for an organization of volunteer lawyers defending inmates with no means of their own row one there are five by the time the case was over the file itself filled to fall filing cabinets it was a huge file. because over the overtime we just collected a lo

and it pointed to thomas eagleton as a good option -- and they pointed to thomas eagleton as a good optioneadline, the governor gives him a call. he says george, before you change your mind, i hastily accept. the book details that series of exchanges. and what goes on after to lead to this ticket -- to get them all. host: talk about that phone call and why up until this point, thomas eagleton had not been betted in a process we come to expect in modern-day politics. they look at everything. your tax records, your school records, your health, your physical and mental health. none of that was looked at with thomas eagleton before the offer was made. guest: great question. the thing you have to remember about this convention is george mcgovern did not have the nomination going into it. nowadays like with mitt romney for example, he had the nomination for months before his convention. he had time to vet his running mate. george mcgovern was not certain he would be the nominee. he still have the challenge from his so-called anything -- anyone but george mcgovern coalition that contested his nom

thomas fitzgerald, come on down! ( cheers and applause ) you are the first four contestants on "the price is right." and now, here's your host, drew carey! >> drew: what's up? welcome to the show! rachel reynolds, everybody. rachel reynolds. nice to have you, welcome to the show. say hi to george gray, please. >> george: hey everybody, welcome to the show! >> drew: are you ready to get started "let's go with the first prize up for bid today on "the price is right". >> george: look up as the first prize comes down. it's a selection of designer ladies' sunglasses. ( cheers and applause ) block out the rays with four pairs of shades from tom ford. includes three rounded frames and one aviator-style pair. çó >> drew: tom ford sunglasses, goes to who ever bids close toast the actual retail price without going over. thomas, we're going to start with you. >> 600, drew. >> drew: $600. christine? >> 550. >> drew: $550. earl? >> 1,000. >> drew: $1,000. and michelle? >> 651. >> drew: 651. good luck to everybody. actual retail p

how is thomas doing?better than he was doing a week ago. >> did you stop accepting donations from other resources when this woman came to you guys and said, she was going to give you the money you needed? >> we stopped our fund-raising effort to the full extent. there were many other fund razors being offered to us that we held off. when we realized it wasn't on its way it crushed thomas. those were his exact words. i didn't think it was possible for somebody to do something like that. >> how much money are we talking about here? what are his treatments costing you? >> what our goal was to raise was $250,000Ñi starting here an where are we going to be six months from now. i will do anything that it takes to make sure my son gets the care he needs and deserves. >> has thomas started treatment yet? >> yes, he has. his color is better more are alert. e-mails and letters, people are sending in support of thomas. he absolutely loves. you can see behind me here this is the whole kindergarten class that got toge

(thomas schatz) the western dragged the past with it about 50 years ahead. as the western evolves, it's looking at civilization that becomes more and more sophisticated. the hero can no longer exercise his code in a way that's acceptable to himself or to society. he becomes an outlaw or a gun for hire. (narrator) in 1960, john sturges made the "magnificent seven," one of the first films dealing with the west's end. (john sturges) what does a gunfighter do after his prime is past? what do you do when you're a gunfighter? how do you retire? you're forced to change. you're forced to be somebody else. you're forced to cope. that's good story material. your gun has got you everything you have, isn't that true? hmmm? well isn't it true? yeah, sure, everything. after a while you can call bartenders and faro dealers by their first name, maybe 200 of them. rented rooms you live in, 500. meals you eat in hash houses, a thousand. home, none. wife, none. kids, none. prospects, zero. (music playing) ♪ mamma, take ♪ this badge offa me ♪ i can't use it anymore ♪ it's getti

here's a word from the very talented thomas haden church. >> hi, i'm thomas haden church.nd i believe children are our future. but on test after test, american kids are just not keeping up with their foreign peers. i think it's time for a new approach. kid swap. kid swap takes failing american kids and replaces them with smart, foreign kids. >> wait, what? >> here's the math. if we take 12% of our dumb kids and replace them with smart kids from places like china and india, our test scores actually go up 80%. i went to public school in texas. i don't know what any of that means, but it sounds good. $500 donation is all it takes to replace a dumb dumb like bill here with a whiz kid like ming, from china. he plays the violin. he did my taxes and i hear he's a scratch golfer. jennifer. jennifer's interests are justin bieber, of course, and consuming her own boogers. jennifer's got to go. >> hey, wait. you can't take me away! >> getting smarter already! she does equations and studies with robby shancar on the it is tar. kevin is actually a very good student and athlete. there's

the interaction between justice thomas and father brooks. so that just got me intrigued. i'm a business journalist. it was not a classic story but i am on a centrist in leadership and i'm always interested in mentoring. and it took quite a while to get justice thomas to speak with me i think in part because he didn't necessarily trust the agenda that i had, which was they would like in fact to talk about 1968, 69, 70 those years and what amazed me was when i did go in to see him, the depth of passion that he had for holy cross. the feelings and emotions he had about father brooks. i'm not sure who was at his presentation last week when he got his honorary degree but that came up again. when you hear what he feels about holy cross versus what he said about his experiences at yale their subfor pound difference in one of the big differences was his classmates and it was the way he felt treated at the college and certainly the way he felt treated by father brooks. so i basically just set out to do an article. i decided that it was in fact ground

thomas? >> thank you very much. >>> new today, republican presidential candidate mitt romney is in california for fundraising events in hopes of regaining the lead in the all-important campaign cash category. taking center stage, more questions from last night's release of his 2011 income tax returns. nbc's peter alexander is in san francisco traveling with mitt romney. an early good morning. bring us up to speed on what we can expect on the trail today? >> reporter: thomas, the romney campaign insists that its friday document dump, as we in the business refer to this, put out the tax returns on a friday where fewer people were paying attention, is not politically motivated. they say it was done that day because they were done. nonetheless, they're trying to put to bed the issue that they fear could raise more nasty headlines as we get closer to the election. now barely six weeks away, and every day is critical for a campaign that acknowledges it's been spending too much time on the defensive

thomas? >> kristen welker reporting, thanks so much. >>> joining me now is keith boyken, michael smerkonish and hogan ginley. gentlemen, good to have you here and we start with a brand new quinnipiac/"the new york times" poll with mitt romney behind ten points in the battleground state of ohio. down nine in florida. 12 points in pennsylvania. hogan, looking at the numbers, given the state, does romney have a feasible path to the white house anymore? >> i think those numbers are a little bit inflated but i think for the most part everyone understands barack obarack becr little bit closer and it's got to be a great debate and distance himself from the obama plan in the sense to attack the president, attack the president in a way that he's never been attacked before and show the discrepancies and quit trying to be likable and focus on being capable and i say i'm the person capable of winning this election and capable of turning the country around. we have seen record unemployment under a this pr

a status hearing today for thomas gore who was an assistant treasurer for the campaign and who has already pled guilty to wrongdoing. fox 5 peace matt ackland has the story. >> reporter: minutes after what was called a status hearing thomas gore came out of the courthouse and ran past our camera. you'll recall earlier this year gore, a gray campaign worker, pleaded guilty to involvement in a scam to pay sulaimon brown to verbally attack former mayor adrian fenty. >> is there anything you want to say? >> reporter: he had nothing to say, but inside the courtroom the u.s. attorney's office indicated gore continued to work with prosecutors and they needed more time to continue that work before setting a sentencing hearing. gore could be granted leniency for his cooperation. >> we are just in this until it's over. you can't do anything except live with it. >> reporter: meanwhile these are twitter pictures of mayor

>>> i'm thomas roberts in for tamron hall. following big, developing news. the presidential candidates in scramble. new polls showing the ticket fighti. any menonsmanaul an ctoakn colorado and governor romney crisscrosses the state of ohio, a state no republican president ever lost and where early voting begins next week. >> i know there's some people who want more for years bute don' woue years like the last four years. bigger government, stimulus. >> meanwhile, president obama is also in ohio trying to hold on to that lead there. according to theat qupioll, ten points ahead and taking no chances. the president hammering his opponent at an event moments ago. >> i don't believe we can get very far wit leaders who wte off half the nation as a bunch spbi fhe o ne lives. and i've got to tell you. as i travel around ohio and as i look out on this crowd i don't see a lot of victims. i see hard working ohios. >> straight out on the trail and covering both cig nn w ron mott on the phone with congressman paul ryan's event in ohio. we have heard several messages over

interaction between justice thomas and father brooks.so that just got me intrigued as a business journalist. it was not a classic business story. but i'm always interested in leadership and mentoring. took quite a while to get justice thomas to speak with me, in part because he didn't necessarily trust the agenda that i had, which was i would like, in fact, to talk about 1968 and 1969 and 1970 and what amazed me was the depths of passion that he had for lee cross. the dealings and the emotions he had about father brooks. i am not sure who is at his presentation last week when you contrast what he has said about his experiences at yale, there is a profound difference. one of the differences was the way he felt treated by father brooks. i basically just set out to an article. i decided that it was in fact grounds or a book. this being my first project, i went on all sorts of directions that ultimately didn't work. one of which was lots of history of the jesuits, the publishers that no, not that. a lot of the history, which took me a while

bishop thomas, on the other hand, is a major bishop in the coptic faith in egypt, but listen particularly, because we've had barbara's beautiful sahara - once again, we're getting too many synchronicities in this class. we have this book - from the library, folks; that's why you can't see the front on it - but we have this book about the sahara - we'll, we're going to the sahara; i forgot about that. yeah, we're going back to the sahara, and listen to what life would be like there. and so, if we could, let's go to st. macarius monastery in the deserts outside of cairo. >> the word monk , or monastery, monasticism, from mono - mono means single, one-say but one. here is all the monastic ones - mono, monk, monastic - they lived as hermits alone in the desert. now we live in a community together, so we built a wall all around the land but till now, we live alone ourselves. we work together, pray together, eat together one meal a day in our dining room, but we live alone ourselves. every cell has two rooms, small kitchen, small bathroom, in every cell, for one monk - comfortable sense - but n

. >> host: thomas woods, what's the difference between a conservative and libertarian? >> guest: well, this is a tricky one in my heart is very much on the table here because i feel like i have sympathies in both camps. i identify myself as a libertarian. the libertarian has one basic principle which is nonaggression. you cannot initiate force against anyone else. i think a lot of people would agree that instinctively. of course you know it's wrong to clock your neighbor over the head, the libertarians take that to the logical consequence, which is the look at the initiation of violence against people who themselves have not initiated. so we consider it to be legitimate. a conservative is life, guest ideological. the conservatives deliberately released in the classical sense like edmund burke is deliberately non-systematic. and i say that not as an insult because they have good reasons for being non-systematic. their view would be life is too complex to be reducible to the one libertarian principle or to be reducible to left liberal nostrand's that we can impose on the

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thomas?bout this continuing resolution so it gets us into march of 2013. there's a potential it could go six months beyond that, correct? >> well, sure. i mean, they always like to give a new congress a couple of months to get onto their feet. they're not in for most of january. the new congress is usually sworn in january 3rd. there's another thought down the road are going to kick this fiscal cliff, extend that a little bit further onto the horizon as well because they won't be able to come to a geemt these monumental issues about the tax code, spending, defense cuts about payroll tax and income taxes in a lame duck session where there's going to be 100 members of the house of representatives who are either retired and waiting to punch their ticket or have lost their seats. that would be irresponsible by some measure to have the congress tackle something of that magnitude in a lame duck. thomas? >> mike, thank you, appreciate it. >>> with 45 days to go until this election and paul ryan is m

for thomas "yellowsto" moran. yellowstone remained a source of inspiration throughout moran's career. in 1892, the artist returned to the park to create new paintings of its wonders. by this time, yellowstone was a popular tourist attraction. the idea of the national park, suggested two decades before, had been fully realized. moran's depictions of yellowstone left a permanent mark on the american consciousness, transforming the public perception of the west fr a frightful land of mystery into a patriotic symbol of the beauty and promise of america. ( music ) narrator: it tended to look much like any other building, the usual geometric jumble of rods, forms, and scaffolds. but by its location alone, here on the familiar axis of amerin history, it was destined to become a prominent stone in the nation's crown. the first problem architect i. m. pei faced was the shape of the site, an asymmetrical set-back trapezoid on which his building would have to respect the classic symmetry of its older sister and serve also a

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