debt beady tyson did not like to hear this thing and he was the warden of the jill. he would come to the end of the cell block and he would say, if you boys don't stop that singing down there you are going to be singing in the rain. [laughter] i did not know what that meant. i ask myself made, singing in the rain? he said they are going to turn the fire hoses on us full blast of we don't stop singing, so i was ready to go with whatever they were ready to go with. it wasn't so bad, but it left everything saudi for while. but, there were some tough guys in there and they believed in what they were doing and they did not care. some of them really did not care about the consequences but we were told in new orleans to try to get the freedom riders to stop fighting the jail system. we were not there to fight the system. we had a job to do and that job was -- we got out of their life. >> helen, while you ram parchment be used to go visit the rabbi would come to see the freedom riders. >> we were allowed to have one visitor, well, to visitors. you could see your lawyer and y

you were a former warden of san quentin. i wonder if you could share with us your experience at having actually conducted executions? you saw the word from mississippi said that this had a personal effect on him and i wonder if you can address the issue that comes up with the victim's family often get satisfaction of some kind -- some relief because of the person that they understand has committed the crime and they are finally put to death. can you remark on this? >> let me say, i agree with everything that they have talked about. i cannot really speak for the families of the victims, only what i have observed to the execution process. this has an impact on everyone who is involved, including the staff. and of course the inmates' families. and the people who show up to watch this. and the whole show of people who are there for this. you cannot walk away from this without having been impacted. i want to talk about the war and has said, that these executions have been 7-10 years after the crime and we're not executing the sam

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she did preside as the warden over several executions. natasha is the death penalty policy director for the american civil liberties union of northern california. she previously worked as a deputy public defender in alameda county, and was a staff attorney with the california task force on criminal instructions. she is also working on the effort to abolish the death penalty in california and pursuing the goal of reforming capital sentencing procedure. before we start with the first question, we have a short video. i have been told that this is a video from the former warden of the mississippi prison. >> it is clear that the execution will take place and something happens. they may not come out and say that they did this, but they will tell the victim -- i am sorry. and then they say, i did this. and i leaned down to whisper in his ear, and i thought i could reach them because i wanted to make certain that he is at peace with themselves. i said it is not important for you to confess to this crime and is not important for anyone in this roo

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she was warden at san quentin from 1999 to 2004. penalty group death penalty focus will announce her as their executive director. she says that as a catholic she was never in favor of capital punishment but professionally she had a duty to carry it out. woodforde tells the "l.a. times" the death penalty serves no one and is an unnecessary financial burden to taxpayers. >>> and a court hearing is planned today for a controversial memorial to victims of the 1978 massacre in jonestown, guyana. 1900 members of the people's temple died at the direction of cult leader jim jones. he also died and the controversy is over the inclusion of his name on the memorial plaques at evergreen cemetery in oakland. some victims' relatives do not want jones' name included. >> ng a reporter in the middle of his >>> a large earthquake knocking down a church in spain nearly crushing reporters in the middle of this live shot. he holds on to his mic and continues his report. the 5.3 magnitude quake destroyed several buildings and cars in the tourist town of

i asked the warden about an escape plan for the rest of the inmates. evacuated about 2,000 out of the 5,000 inmates. i asked the warden a short time ago how they're going to get the rest of them out if this area becomes flooded. how tough is it to evacuate and get people displaced in a place like this? >> our plan is to run up on the levee. the thing about evacuating m manhatt manhattan, boom. not as many people. still we have to get them on the levees. we don't know where the breach is if it's at night. we just know we're filling up with water. >> reporter: so they're working to shore this up. we're told by one prison official, fredricka, if this levee breaches, the 18,000 acres that make up this prison could be flooded in about four to six hours. very low lying area. they're kind of up against it right now because the river that's surrounding them on three sides is now cresting. >> brian, you know, the neighboring communities there to angola, are most people relatively happy that the inmates there are being able -- being released temporarily to help?

by saying i have had the opportunity to view this issue from every point of view, having been the warden at san quentin state prison. i am absolutely impassioned about the fact that it is time to end the death penalty in this state. life without possibility of parole is the real sentence. hold people accountable and gives them the opportunity to change within the prison system, and they can give back by working within the prison system, giving restitution to family members and working on behalf of the state of california on a variety of projects that go on inside prisons. i also want to echo what the process said -- please join, please help -- i also want to echo what natasha said. talk to 10 of your friends, send e-mails, send letters. thank you. [applause] >> 1985, when i was sentenced to death for a crime i did not commit, i thought right away that this would be rectified. i was convicted of two different crimes. it took 18 years. it took me seven execution dates. i watched 12 then be executed while i was there -- i watched 12 and then be executed while i was there. i'm not in a posit

suit names the current governor, jerry brown, the director of the state department of corrections, a warden nunez. >> the last-minute come mutation made without all the facts or input from the parties only fueled the public's mistrust of government and greatly diminished justice. >> the san diego da's office says the lawsuit is believed attorney the first of its kind in the nation. >>> a dogfight brewing tonight after santa clara county now decides to hold owners of pit bulls and other dangerous dogs accountable for the dog's actions. the board of supervisors approved a measure that gives more authority to animal care and control to label dogs as potentially dangerous. the law also requires anyone walking these dogs to be over 18, capable of controlling the dog, and have increased liability insurance. critics say the board should not have targeted a particular type of breed, but instead increased education and training. >>> a tough new vehicle emissions standards are being drawn up by the state air resources board. these new standards could save california billions of dollars and improve ai

collected off the roof of the school, held in sis alternatives, comes down a pipe system and is used to warden the gardens, -- wattwater the gardens, one of those that i was amazed and pleased we were able to do at all, gibbon the neighborhood and the size of the school yards. so it was really quite extraordinary and a mural describing the sistern and water collection system. this is a project, one of our green school yard partners, but it's a living library project. and it was rling amazing and there were a lot of people there and i think we do a lot of wonderful projects just of this nature except what's unique about this is that it was funded by the p.u.c. this is about managing groundwater, diverting water, even in, again, the most densely populated neighborhood in san francisco and according to board of supervisors, president david chiu, who was present, the second most densely popularitied in the country second to china toub in -- chinatown in new york. it was quite wonderful and i wanted to refer to that and to really give kudos to the people involved in it. but more to the model that w

san quentin's new warden they -- executions have been hold since they said the system causes unusual pain in zblugsz a rare violin that was stolen at conservatory of music. the thief was caught on camera. john alston reports. ♪ >> emily cox can still make beautiful music but it's not same with the violin she had to borrow. >> her violin the one she played for 11 years was stolen. its one of a kind violin made in the 1920 and worth $23,000. >> i'm sad. for me to think in the hands of somebody else. >> last tuesday afternoon she left it in a classroom on the fifth floor of the san francisco conservatory of music to check her e-mail. >> in between the time i was gone the suspect came in and grabbed the violin and fled the building. >> as the suspect left the conservatory on oak street, a classmate followed him to the muni stop where he got on a train and bingo. >> that is our boy. >> a camera on the muni train captured a clear shot of the suspect getting on board with what appears to be emily's violin case strapped to his back. he traveled about four minutes and got off at powell street

we also have a former warden at san quentin who surprised the last three executions, and she is now the head of death penalty focus which is an anti-death penalty group. we have somebody, though, who really symbolizes everything that's wrong with the death penalty. in 1983 he was arrested and within 120 days was convicted in two trials which resulted in the death penalty. he was sentenced to angola in louisiana, death row, where they were executing people left and right. he spent 14 years. he had nearly half a dozen execution dates. and yet he survived and he's here today. and actually -- i know you are on the third panel. come on up. come on up. this is james "j.t." thompson. he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mo

the president or the warden friendly of this country is huge you will. go to a u.s. journalist and get a search warrant the other possibility is that a facebook as the dude is who sees. her for the bank right as far as i know the servers are just in the u.s. i want to thank you so much for bringing us your perspective on this latest comments i was declan mccullagh correspondent for seen at news and that is going to for now for more on the stories we've covered r.t. dot com slash usa check out our you tube page youtube dot com slash r.t.m. america and follow me on twitter at lauren lyster i'll see you right back here at five. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothing. our sons wounded. to suffer because it. was the first but probably not the last military uses of this weapon. many more will make. carmageddon in the future. download the official anti ugly cation show i phone i pod touch from the i.q. saps to. john sheesh life on the go. video on demand on cheese minefield comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the pott

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