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But i need to be, you know, and make a stand until it stops. Since 977, there has been 1460 executions in the us. A large majority of those executed its blacks or latinos, or people in general, mostly men, but also women. The last woman executed was kelly gibson, after she was the 55th woman to be put to death since the start of the 20th century. 46 year old kelly renee, just some downer, is set to die. Its 7 pm by lethal injection. She was convicted of murder for the 1997 stabbing of her husband. Prosecutors say she plotted his death with her boyfriend demonstrations to prevent her execution were organized. Her children did everything they could to save them and we want you also know that were still fighting to dilute your faith. This is not no, we didnt get that update. Even pope francis final words were broadcast on t. V. And on the radio. And on the way you just have to go out on september 30th, 2015 at 12, 21 am or was executed. She was 47 years old. In the United States, out of the 2843 inmates on death row, 54 are women. They are incarcerated in 16 different states across the country were granted permission to interview 3 of them have been on death row for over 15 years. In the shawna forde has been charged with the most unspeakable crimes violent acts that resulted in the claimed, the life of a young girl and her father, black, white, or hispanic. They all have a troubled past and a common mix with drugs, sexual abuse, and extreme violence. These 3 prisoners are considered among the most dangerous in the country. They live in solitary confinement, contact with their fellow prisoners as for their families, these terrible conditions, the lawyers fight, day and night to delay their situations in which this is from. This is the police are convinced of their innocence. I believe that shut up or was not on their rights or curt botched chiles. Court appointed lawyers and scripture judges and prosecutors. The families believe that the deck was stacked against that. Anybody that set that trial, that my sisters trial was a circus that was just awful, even when theyre proven and a sentence in nightmare continues to. This is the unknown world of 4 men on death row used in texas. The city was the scene of a strange and atrocious crime of child kidnapping and homicide. That led to the arrest of this 43 year old woman lived in a poor neighborhood known for drug trafficking, her neighbors, Joanna Rodrigue s. , and had just moved to the United States from mexico. They just had a baby 2 days earlier. Linda carter is believed to have devised the plot to steal their baby. On may 16th, 2001, and the middle of the night, the couples home was stormed by 3 armed men. A young parents were gagged and the men searched the house from top to bottom. Had made them believe that a large amount of drugs were in the couples home. In exchange, they had to deliver the mother and the newborn 40 hours later was found dead in the trunk of a car. The infants was safe and sound. The car belongs, lend the card, her hotel room. She had even made her neighbors believe she did everything to the police. And if you told the world, if you told anyone, can you buy them get in a baby and most days you havent told anybody that you know, i said i should have been having a baby. I didnt say im buying a baby. I feel im a baby. What i thought and involved. I can have a baby if i want to have a baby. I have been a cry baby you and i dont even bother me if im mad. Oh, now im getting fat all. Everybodys trying. The model im a big body was in my car guy, the guy youre deaf and i got your evidence was overwhelming. Was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder in texas. And then they would have been executed. Lawyer had not been fighting for years to get her a new trial for the United States. For 16 years, they spent more than 4000000. 00 trying to prove she did not receive a hold so this would have been the ritual police which became one of the biggest pieces of evidence we had when the truth. Because this was the police report. The video of the, the key guy, the one who did it all being interviewed by the police when he was 1st and telling the story completely different than what he told at trial. And so this we never have and hes trying to prove that prosecutors tempered with evidence and encourage fake testimony as a result in the cardio a sense of that district attorneys that handled this case. They withheld evidence. The witnesses reported how they were bullied into saying certain things and not saying certain things. And then we started hearing this independently, the witnesses independently with the same story. It all came into focus. The jury was misled by the district attorneys and there was no fair trial. Why was the prosecution in seeking the Death Penalty when considering the evidence in the car, he would have certainly been sentenced to life in texas, especially to win elections. You have to be seen as being someone strong, someone strong on crime is important. And so if you have a judge that lets criminals loose or criminals, when the opponents will come in and say, this judge is weak on crime. And they lose the border for the prosecutor to win the election. No, no. The ones that admitted doing this, the ones that admitted putting your in the truck, the ones today admitted leaving her in the trunk for 8 hours in the texas heat. They all struck deals that the d. A. s went to them and told them, you either testify this way or youll get the Death Penalty. The men got sentences ranging from 15 to 45 years in prison, continues to deny any involvement. Her only hope is to get a new trial, but all of her appeals have been systematically rejected. For 16 years, she has been on death row in gainesville, a city lost in the countryside, surrounded by 6 prisons for women. Nearly 7700, detainees are locked up here among them 6 on death row. We were granted permission to meet lynda carter with a strict agreement with her lawyer not to speak about her case. 60 minute interview with a woman considered to be one of the most dangerous in the United States. So im very worried here. Thank you, for example, want to describe to be home, hows your life, your moments, your up and down. And it depends on the status of your appeal because you could be quite euphoric at some times. And then all of a sudden you could be in that valley. You know, when that case is denied. Every time i talk about that i want to cry because its difficult shouldering. Its for me in particular, if i had done the crime, i would have accepted my fate. But because i know that im not guilty, its hard. Its hard dealing with it and i try, i try to put it on the back, but im not think about it because i dont want to be another step to stick for the Mental Health department. And i need to be able to stay strong so that in the process of having my investigators and my attorneys and my daughter and my friends helping me to clear my name, that i wont become a burden for anyone. For the rest of my life was a pandemic. No, certainly no borders. Im just blind to nationalities because sometimes we dont look like each to judge and commentary. Crisis like this, mr. Intent we can do better. We should be doing better. Everyone is contributing way. But we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. The challenges create the response, has been so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. World is driven by shaped by the day or thinks we dare to ask during the vietnam war, us forces also bombed to neighboring laos. It was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know until our thelma is officially miles, heavily bombed country per capita in all of human history. Millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country. Jordyn. We dont know how its happening there. Even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. Is the us making amends for that tragedy. And what help do the people need in that little land of mines . So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have. Its crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development. Only personally, im going to exist. I dont see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk are the times where you cant do shit anymore. I have a daughter that i went to where the law i truly love and its this place is enough of a bargain for her soul. For me to try to commit suicide or to give up or anything. I feel as though i would fail my child. She said she has 2 boys. I have 2 grandsons. I didnt have met one, you know, because were not allowed to have visits with all kids. Because the state says that if you have a crime against a child that you are not allowed to have the visits with even your old sadly the family members who are kids. So no, i dont get to see them other than pictures. Talk into them on the fall every 90 days. Like all women on death row. Linda carter who has no physical contact with her family visits are always behind the bulletproof glass. The special inmates are separated from the rest of the prison population. They are in total isolation locked in tiny cells. Theyre not allowed to have personal belongings or photos on the wall. Awakened every morning at 3. Their lives revolve around meals and inspections. Every 2 hours alone, 24 hours a day. They are waiting to be executed. These imprisonment conditions are deemed inhumane by the prisoners, families, a mental and emotional torture that also affects their children and grandchildren. When this daughter tries her best to maintain family ties with her mom whose life is on hold. Its a challenge to make her exist spiritually to her children, to maintain a semblance of normality. This isnt their 1st christmas, but this is one of the mom gets copies of all of these photos. And we try to send as many as possible, the boys try to send as many cards as they possibly can. So they write letters to keep in contact dated on whats going on. Family grandchildren who have never seen the grandmother that they hear about all the time. And who will one day learn the truth about her crime . I usually have my mom with the newest announcement here. Anything thats new, its cool. Everything like that. Picture will be the one that got the News Announcement next to it, but yes, shes always included. And you think all the time all the time, mothers day was always pretty difficult. One of the questions, what kind of questions with the normal questions . You know, how soon they are doing was last time we talked to nana are we, when are we going to be able to go . You know, how come we cant go and the best we can do is to just explain it to them. These are the rules that they have set up and we cant change their juval only has one picture of her mother taken by a guard from the other side of the visiting room with a jacket to hide her prisoners clothes. Shes always alone. Contact with other death, row prisoners is not allowed. Shes in a cell all day, all 23 hours of the day nonstop. And the one hour that she gets to come out of this hole were she is all by herself. She still doesnt get to have interaction with everyone else. She still by herself. Tell me that its not punishment. Tell me that its not enough punishment. Im worried about, you know, is she going to be sane . Because how long can you maintain being by yourself for year after year after year with no one to talk to . Where does your stand if you go . Not surprisingly, many who are condemned to death. Long before being executed. Arizona, a place in the middle of the desert, close to the mexican border. This community of only 30000 people is a mixture of newcomers. And vigilante groups trying to prevent migrants crossing the border. When militia was responsible for the biggest slaughter in the region, led by 42 year old shawna forde. Now sentenced to death for executing a mexican family suspected of trafficking drugs. Her friend lane wallace has also a dedicated her life to stop Illegal Immigrants and the United States. If youre going to go to a place where theres a lot of trafficking and stuff going on, youre probably going to take set like an a 47 or an a r 15. You really shouldnt go out to places where theres drug smugglers and not carry along. You made something seana. Fores organization was a nationalist militia which claimed to fight cartels at the border. Shawna forde was an early activists, a regular on the media and television. She liked to praise the merits of her militant action and she knew our of like the back of her hands. And theres an extremely dangerous area that matters are so dangerous that im refusing to bring the water as i dont have enough. I have one gun on me and im not going to be were not getting people trying to in lawyers and doctors here. Ok. Were getting the floor of the floor. We know what we need to do to secure these borders. We know what we need to do to secure the sovereignty of this nation, and thats what were going to do and we will win this war. Thats a shot of for a minute. An American Defense lane wallace, like other militia members, doesnt believe shawna. Forde is a murderer. She thinks she was settling scores between opposing cartels and that she was the scapegoats for the murders. This is the house where the air of arka massacre happened at about 12. 45 am. On a friday night, several intruders burst into that house. They. d were supposedly pretending to be Border Patrol and were dressed as Border Patrol and they shot the husband. They shot the wife and they shot the 9 year old daughter. The wife survived, she was shot in the head like the daughter and the husband were seana. Ford was never positively identified by the surviving with this, so there were definitely 2 men there and one woman. And there were additional parties as well. Shes didnt know if there was, she said there might have been 4 or 5 people there, but she couldnt describe them fluoresce 9 and her father drove florence died on the spot with a bullet in the head. The only survivor of the massacre, gina gonzales. Mother shot in the leg, she pretended to be dead during the shooting before calling for help. I dont know where you think they shot them the way they were, they shot him in the head in the head. Though theyre the people who are there that shot him the other back there on the phone. Salems who heard her came back inside the house to eliminate the only survivor. To defend herself. Picked up her husbands weapon and started firing a man who was injured in the leg. You can clearly hear the voice of the woman on the recording. A voice that could belong to shawna forde. Are you ok . How many people were there . I dont know. Like males are talking there with a male in the woman. Ok. Now the woman, what if he look like me making these just coming in to join us for newsroom 3 people have been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion. After a highly publicized trial, he was sentenced to death for the double homicide. Despite the fact that gina gonzales, the only survivor was never able to formally identify her, nor to say exactly how many killers were in the house. Chris ackerley saana for his lawyer. Believe there is no evidence that his client was present at the scene of the kind which he claims prove shauna for its innocence. We see a mysterious woman carrying a weapon, similar to the one found at a scene of the kind. This womans identity is still unknown today in the 1st place, gina guns all as she was uncertain if it was one woman in her house or 2 with them. Because the woman who was initially there went outside, and a few minutes later, a woman came in who was dressed completely differently and had her hair done completely different way. And she identified her as being a heavy set short one with blondish brown hair. Now we can prove that these photographs were taken the night before the flores homicides occurred. The jury never saw those photographs looks to me like a short, heavy set woman with blondish brown hair that is not shown up for we dont know who it is. There is a shotgun there, and 357. 00 caliber revolver. Now, 20 minutes after the homicides occurred. This weapon was found in the forest front yard. This is also 357 handgun, with a finger and intuitions, i believe that shawna forde was not present when these homicides occurred. She was this is we requested an interview, but death row inmates are not allowed interviews in arizona. After months of waiting, we were finally granted permission to talk to her on the phone tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess, to crimes. They didnt commit, i dont even think people in the us really get the person who actually came to believe they were told the case is closed. Nobody really can tell the difference between on election night. You may know whether the margin for the winner is so large that it is impossible for the defeated candidate to catch up. So there may still be 10000 votes to count, but the margin is 80000 votes. It doesnt matter if all 10000 votes went for the defeated candidate, they cannot possibly catch up and thats where we are today. Joe bidens 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 know who won. And joe biden won a majority of the Electoral College votes. New gold rush is underway in thousands of ill equipped work goes off flocking to the gold fields, hoping to strike it. Rich is a good day over the children. A tool in between gold was very poor. I thought that i was doing my best to get back to school, which side will have the strongest appeal in the stories that shaped the way care or not see in the story the peace deal brokered by more sky was signed by a mania. And as a push on ending almost 2 months of bloodshed in the go, no question, minutes have been sent to the region to ensure fighting this not with stuff. 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