Fact that he no longer. Nineteen seventy eight. To nineteen ninety nine i served as an execution. Opera form sixty next years in the seventeen years. For that recommend the Death Penalty. In theory the judge if they had performed the execution i think that. In light a different story on given a definite it when. The United States is the last country in the developed west to execute criminals. About fifty percent of americans are for the Death Penalty and fifty percent against it. Our Capital Punishment system is flawed this is not a matter of vengeance its a matter of just the best that we believe serves as a deterrent Capital Punishment is tainted by Racial Disparity having my fathers killers executed did not bring me a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it an issue if you tickle why should your life be taken justice is about us as a society. Nine hundred eighty two was my first execution. I was a correctional officer. One of my main jobs were to save lives so when it came down to execution i had to transform myself into a person that would take a life. Jerry 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. Shocked by paul my. I want to being quite a young lady because she was innocent. I was. Told if. My thing is that if a person take a life of about a person in that persons life should be taken and thats what i believe. Jerry received training to operate the electric chair and later to administer lethal injections. He became chief executioner in one thousand nine hundred two. I would say my team members take pride in their work their preparations. Getting this person and ready for his next step in life prepare him just to see is he its for the last time or. A last kiss of his mother sister of amys 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 were keeping. Secret and i kept it a secret from my my family. Since one thousand nine hundred seventy seven other executioners across the United States have put over a thousand four hundred sixty people to death its a punishment supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. It was a gorgeous day it was a beautiful morning we met some friends in boston and. Twenty three thousand runners and half a million spectators gathered for the boston marathon. Karen brossard her husband and daughter which cheering a friend over the finish line. We were there for maybe ten or fifteen minutes all excited with the crowd watching everybody come through and the suddenly it was this incredibly loud. Explosion. Seven of us there six of us were injured. One of their friends lost both of my legs that. I knew that my husband was pretty badly injured. My daughter had shrapnel from her hips. And i had trapped both my legs. The two blasts injured over two hundred sixty people and killed three including krystal campbell. And eight year old martin richard. Police pursuit two brothers in a dramatic manhunt. Twenty six year old tamar alonzo meyer was killed in a shoot a. Day later police captured the younger brother dzhokhar alive. Over the next few months karen braun and their daughter like many of the bombing victims had to undergo multiple surgeries. Im going to try to not let this change who i am im not going to let this prevent me from living a life that i want to live. Im not going to be afraid. Later that summer karen traveled from a home in New Hampshire to boston. Meant at the federal court. We were all seated together and he walked out he didnt look at any of us but his hand was obviously entered and my Immediate Response was i hope that her i hope its painful. Not like me. And the recognition of that about me was scared because that isnt who i am. Pled not guilty to all thirty counts seventeen punishable by death. The federal prosecutor asked victims if the us should seek the Death Penalty. I dont know. I dont know. I. Dont know what justice is. Terrorist acts are rare much more common are the murders and other violent acts that happen every day across the United States. In philadelphia Shannon Schieber was finishing her first year of graduate school. She had been up studying it was early thursday morning her for i would say it was friday morning. About two oclock in the morning she was preparing to take a bath. The assailant who who attacked her he pried open her sliding door. She screamed for help as she was being attacked. The next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. He told him that he heard his neighbor. Scream for help and he heard like the choking he said. The Police Arrived within twenty minutes they knocked on the door but no one answered. The next day when shannon didnt show up for a lunch date with her brother shawn he drove to her Apartment Building. Or lucy and its neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said im trying to reach my sister i cant reach your. The guy just would pale so my god i called the Police Last Night they were running up the steps they broke open her door and she was laying naked on her bed. By the time we got voted off even though the police were swarming around the Apartment Building and they let us know immediately that she had been attacked and that she had been murdered. We were beginning to face the fact that part of us had died and i mean it hit us very quickly. I just remember the prince that wed be able to gather to get through this. That weekend they attended mass. When we got to the lords prayer. Say the lords prayer out loud was a real confrontation. Forgive us our trespasses as we were those who trespass against him. I had to abandon something i had been saying. Often probably thoughtlessly thousands of times over my over or. And if anyone would have asked us what would you want to do if you if you ever found who did this i didnt i just why be so angry i want i want him dead to maybe i dont know i never had this happen it was just so painful. Eight days later she burst buried their twenty three year old daughter. Ive been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us of the rich one trillion dollars in debt more than ten White Collar Crime stamping each dish. Eighty five percent of Global Wealth you want to the old for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. China is building a two point one billion dollar a i Industrial Park but dont let the numbers overwhelm. The only numbers you need remember in one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only. The ones in the United States is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. Crossing the most just as they would a simple they want to take on lost and i won the last post on this but i have many of them look for refuge in the socalled sentry sides of the refuse to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities best person as bank of mom. Most you know know. That at best i get them in a lot of class and they want that. They can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all of the political rivals. Both of you what is the who beat up to the dome of the old a said sit struggles of many couples wont. Kill the chance of putting food impulse response both of you up of up to the fault of the. What politicians do. They put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to express. More somehow a lot of us. Had to drive the bus as a white woman for freedom cant be good. Im interested always in the waters and last. Question. What does society do when someone commits a horrific act of violence. For centuries seeking justice was a community affair. And disproportionate blame fell on the poor mentally disabled and people of color. In the eight hundred hundreds some capital offenses were targeted specifically at slaves the stablish in a racial bias that continues today. Executions reached a historic peak in the one nine hundred thirty s. Averaging one hundred sixty seven per year but then in one thousand thirty six. A gruesome execution caught the attention of the media. On aug fourteenth in owensboro kentucky raney of the thea was publicly hanged by a white sheriff many thought but dia was innocent. One New York Times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring anothers best of saw prayerful black men put to death today and davies countys piton gallus. The outcry over rainy bothy is hanging did not put an end to Capital Punishment instead it drove executions behind prison walls out of public view. State officials built death houses and institutionalized the practice. Its a death by far its a scripted death in the beginning it was hanging it was not only hanging but it was. Public and so you see the crowds come in and bring a picnic lunch and celebrating then we move from hanging to the electric chair and then we began to hammer the Horror Stories that happened out of the electric chair. And then there has been a move to lethal injection and lethal injection is likely going medicinal so that well just be putting them to sleep. But not everyone agrees. The idea that they should go out in an opiate haze that it should be a pleasant that is absolutely perverse. The debate about the Death Penalty has become increasingly polarized and politicized we want a system that they are we want a system that respects the dignity of human beings the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying and there was just no way that we hadnt and that we were some people kill with an attitude so callous heinous sadistic that they have forfeited their right to live i believe in a turn of one and that is when we execute this person we know he will never kill again why is it. That the Death Penalty really comes down to in many cases just where you live who your d. N. A. Is we cannot recognize injustice when we see it at people not being treated fairly and people not getting a fair shot you can be critical because you can be critical of the idea that the government has the right to kill and also hold passion and concern for victims maybe in some books of justice the person for this act is serves to die but do we as a society deserve to kill them. Today Capital Punishment largely falls to the state in which the crime was committed. And laws and methods vary widely. Most states use lethal injection. But some still use gas chambers. The electric chair. Hanging and firing squad. Carrying out the Death Penalty is intrusted to specially trained guards like jerry givens. Of the sixty two executions the jerries conducted thirty seven were by electrocution and twenty five by lethal injection. Lethal injection is considered the more humane form but for jerry it made the job of killing another person a lot tougher. When you talk about execution and electrocution is a button you push and washing push the button because it flows in the car and the current comes out. And thats all i had to do was push a button but when it come down to death by lethal injection you have seven to. A chemicals you have four flushes and three deadly chemicals that is inserted into this man and my self as an execution i am at the end of each syringe. Pushing the poison. Down to tune into the body so are more attach to this person then it is pushing a button then release and then they let the current for a wide self. Fifteen days prior to an execution the condemned would be moved to the Death Chamber where gerry and his team worked. All nine of us were executions and we put that on good execution that what we stood by. The preparation was mental as well as physical we practice and practice and practice prior to execution. Each of us knew our jobs out sign it and we never allow ourselves to get that close to anyone you know we train for that we train this way you dont get that close to. The day of the execution. Twenty four hours prior to that we we have a call a duck watch. A guy will act differently because he knew that this is the last everything. This is this a a way to condemn sperrys. This is where the warden readers dont want these clergy person to sit with him. Doing this course and then they condemn is given a shower his last meal is less visitations. By six oclock hour preparations in the stocks and to the inmate is placed today. At home in New Hampshire karen in her family were slowly recovering from their injuries. Not some much for wasm physical abilities things like. Specially for me my rose colored glasses you know. Just the reality. People are Different Things are not the same. When even with one and i. Are friends who are. Working through things and im working through things that. It had been six months since the bombing and karen had not yet seen her good friend celeste who was with them at the finish line and lost both her legs. In the planning. Initially i i couldnt bring myself. To believe that. Because i dealt. With. Celeste and sixteen others lost limbs that day ron was one of the lucky ones doctors were able to save his leg but the trauma and pain still lingered. Were going to have to work for a long time to get to buy a new normal whatever thats going to be. After months of deliberation attorney general eric holder announced the u. S. Would seek the Death Penalty. The defense will argue that zocor was pressured into it by his older brother that he was a popular well liked college kid led astray. You know its going to be held responsible and i agree and i and i am to believe that. But i also thank you. Just cant stoop and. Karen son was the same age as the car. Didnt seem like such a hard decision when it was abstract. You know ive got family and friends who are very religious and dont believe there that i have others who just say. Its the right thing to do theyre so sure. I dont know that its right for me to make that decision to take someone elses life. In philadelphia shannons killer was still on the loose. The shivers pressed france or but the police had none. Its just like youre in a coma you mean youre just like walking through something but you you dont know exactly how youre going to deal with them how am i ever ever going to get through this. This is tremendous its a lot. And you know for some time i could visualize shayla or walking through a door squawking in the house and walking through a door saying aadhaar and she told me. She was so kind and generous and loving and helpful and she always come to us and say mom dad i have to make a difference. Shannon was. Really many things but she had a tremendous appetite for learning everybody loved shannon everybody loved her she was an extremely loving daughter. In their grief vicki and still turn to each other and reached out for support. It just takes time and doesnt you know everybody goes down a different path in a different time line to this journey toward healing they begin attending support meetings for families of murder victims. There they saw the devastating toll of sorrow and anger. The father of one of the murdered daughters we know well took a first drink and he never stopped for a year and she lost his job in a marriage. But well just daughter was one of one hundred sixty six People Killed in the Timothy Mcveigh bombing of oklahoma city. One night about a year later he woke up in the morning and he had this dream and his daughter julie was there telling him dad dad he murdered me are you going to let him murder whole family. Also saw the high price people paid for putting their lives on hold as they waited for an execution. We start finding out what murder victims families go through if you decide to say look i want that man executed it would take fifteen twenty years as much longer for it actually to happen and we just saw the effects that this had on these family members we saw it destroying their lives. 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