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Capital, as formerly issued a subpoena to former president donald trump, that demanding he testified mid november. The january 6th panel says trump personally orchestrated the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and one of trumps most prominent allies has been sentenced to 4 months in prison. Steve bannon was found guilty in july of failing to comply with investigation into the january 6th attack. A sentence is suspended until banum files and appeals. Pakistans, former Prime Minister inman carne has proven his supporters to stop protesting, following an order barring him from Holding Public office for 5 years. Election Commission Rule that con, unlawfully sole gifts given by foreign leaders, and also concealed his assets. Con says hell appeal the order and court. The gifts allegedly included watches, jewelry, and design, a hand bags. He was forced out as Prime Minister in april. Off he lost a confidence vote. Map decided to protest as about his mouth. 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World come, come to cats are seeing it all come to life has been an incredible experience. Having the biggest football tournaments in the world in your own backyard was such a special time to be living here. The us state of oklahoma is set to execute 24 people by december 2024. Thats nearly one person a month for the next 2 years. Is were going to take a closer look at the criminal legal structure in the us. We ask why the Death Penalty is still legal and explore the flaws in the system that lead to thousands of Wrongful Conviction. The, with 2400 people on death row and execution up in the last year. The debate on whether the Death Penalty should still exist in the United States in the 21st century is back in the spotlight. Supporters of the Death Penalty argue that it is the only way to deliver justice against those who commit the most heinous crimes and can be carried out in a humane way. Opponents say that it is unfairly applied and that it cannot be carried out without violating the constitutions ban on cruel and unusual punishment. So can the Death Penalty ever be justified . And is there really a way to execute someone in a humane way . Joining us to discuss this is sister helen, pre john anti Death Penalty activists, catholic nun and spiritual advisor to those on death row. Shes the author of the books dead man walking the death of innocence and river of fire. Sister helen, thank you so much for joining us on. Upfront 11 people have been executed in the United States so far in the year 2022 this year with at least another 8 scheduled to die. Before the end of the year, you spent more than 3 decades counseling people sentence to die. Youve accompany people to their executions and your view, what determines who is put to death by our criminal legal system. When you look at it, look at the deaths in 2021, its solely up to a prosecutor to an attorney general or even to the president in the United States. Thats what basically fundamentally broken in the way the Supreme Court set up the Death Penalty in the greg decision in 1976. They said were going to set the criteria to kill people that the government can take their lives. That is the worst of the worst murder, which has been impossible to know, who knows the difference between a quote, ordinary murder and the worse to the worse. And it was coupled with complete discretionary power to prosecutors to see death from square one. So when any crime is committed, when any murder a prosecutor is never hashed to seek death and then along the way during the appeals, it is up to them to see it through and to see that the person dies. Its a fundamental flaw in the way the Supreme Court said the Death Penalty and that when we look now, most of the United States has shut down the Death Penalty bound state, louisiana. That in the eightys killed 8 people in 8 and a half weeks had had an execution in 20 years. Were shutting it down, but there are pockets where we see killings like in texas because of discretions up to the prosecutor. And then when you, when you look in those states where theres louisiana, texas, mississippi, alabama, its not just the state, its who in those states is being executed. Its whose death is being a greenlit through the discretion of the prosecutors, im thinking specifically about poor people and things specifically about black and brown population. This isnt a universal death felony crisis. Seems to be one of particular populations. Why, i mean, the legacy of slavery is with us. Its written in every institution. We have more, but definitely in the criminal Justice System. And when you look at the over 1500 people have been executed in this country, 8 out of every 10 of them were killed because of the killing of a white person. A victim has to have some status in society and it plays out and race big time, and black on black murder, hard to gives a blimp on the, on the prosecutors radar screen. Because race matters who you care about and whose death you care about matters in this country, most of all will never actually witness an execution in their own life with their own eyes. Executions are carried out quietly. Theres Little Information about the process itself that is made public. Some states limit the number of witnesses that can be present at executions. And even they are typically shielded from a large part of the lethal injection process with an actual curtain that they put up to prevent people from seeing it. What can you, youve been there . What can you tell us about what is like a company, someone to their death torture in the United Nations convention against torture is defined as a mental or physical assault on someone rendered defenseless. And thats a really big thing about when youre going to be executed. That youre rendered completely defenseless. And imagine these are human beings, imaginative, conscious. Human beings, when you have consciousness and imagination, you anticipate dying, you die in your dreams and nightmares a 1000 times before you drive because you anticipate it. There is no way the killing of conscious imaginative human beings can ever be humane. Yes, ive been there. Ive been down with 6 human beings have been killed about 3 electrocuted 3 lethal injection. Lethal injection is every bit as terrible as electrocution because theyre the Supreme Court allowing states to experiment with ways to kill people. Oklahoma right now with the people they are blind up, one is richard glosson. He said 3 last meals and almost killed 3. Tom snatched away from death. That too is torture. There is no way you can say youre doing this humanely. My big thing and being with human beings who were killed in front of my eyes, was to tell them, look at my face. You have a dignity, no one can take from you. I will be the face of dignity and love for you. Look at me. When they do this, but mark, its such a helpless feel and theres nothing you could do. So thats why im a voice out there. Yeah. And it appears that part of why so much of this is shrouded in mystery, is so that people cant see the brutality of it. They cant see the torture because they are proponents of the definitely who would say, well, the reason is not torture is because this can be carried out humanely. They say that a person of being executed does not need to endure needless pain and suffering while being killed. Now again, youve been an execution witness for 3 decades. You are very familiar, intimately familiar with the u. S. Execution process. Is there a humane way to execute somebody . Absolutely not. Its always going to be torture. And i gotta tell you more. This was the talking point i had in my dialogue with the catholic church, specifically with pope john paul, the 2nd who came before frank pope francis. Then i took him there. I said, when im working with a man to execution, any shackled hand and foot surrounded by 6 guards, who can walk 30 steps, be strapped down to be killed. And he whispers to me, please pray. God holds up my legs. Where is there any in viable dignity to the human person being rendered defenceless and kill . It was a telling point i was part of a discussion on one the only one that influence the catholic church. But when pope princes and 2018 changed the teaching of the church about the Death Penalty, it was precisely the point of the invite of the dignity of all life, even those guilty of crimes. And we can never and trust over the governments that right to think they have the wisdom to be able to decide who should dot, which now aligns the catholic church. Right with the United Nations universal declaration of human rights. Article 3, d. An alien bull. Right to life of every human person because they are a human person, you can never take their life for me. That is political rhetoric spinning that or yeah, its the only just punishment to look at with the victims of saw that completed a park or see about victims. Theyre going to wait 17 years on average to watch a person be killed their eyes and that supposed to bring him peace. That political rhetoric thats not to reality. 19 out of 27. 00 death penalties, faith, have secrets the statutes on the books, and many concealed the sources of their lethal injection drugs. Most states prevent witnesses from viewing at least some part of the execution. How is the secrecy legal . How can you have an accountability if you have any accountability . In fact, if everything is so pate, that is by design that id secret. They are bend at least to court cases, try to make executions, public, and they have all been defeated. The, the basic secrecy is its done behind prison walls with only a few witnesses. They keep the curtain drawn like poor, dont be jealous. Williams, he had a 9 q a 653 years after he was executed, the Supreme Court decided in atkins. You cant kill mentally challenged people yell fine. It came to late adobe, but they couldnt find a vein he was scared of needles. I couldnt be with him. I was on the other side of that curtain and he was taking too long to keep waiting, waiting. They tried to find it in one arm. Okay. They got they even have it that you can have it to science because they dont want to glitch. They couldnt find it. In the 2nd arm, they tried his leg, then they finally put the needle in his neck. And finally then, and it took about what 2530 minutes poor dont be there on the table waiting to be killed. So we got to bring it close to the people, we have to bring it to the p. And thats what my next workers going to be about. How we, the people are shutting down the deaf education, education, education, let the witnesses been there, get out there during the 2020 election. President biden promised that if elected, he would quote, work to pass legislation to eliminate the Death Penalty at the federal level and incentivized states to follow the federal government example. Amnesty International Points out that other than a moratorium of federal executions his administration has then very little to make good on this pledge. Given that most executions are carried out in republican state than that any significant Public Policy changes would need to happen through passage from congress. What concrete steps should buy and take to have some progress on these on these promises. Lets come back some slack because hes handling a lot of things. He absolutely, i believe is going to say like, you know, this was the 1st president ial election weve ever and where a president came out against the Death Penalty, even though mama didnt come out again to death. And he said there are some cases which are so terrible that jaffe to allow for the definitely want to allow for that your laundry, everything. And so hes got to take it step by step, i believe is going to do the right thing. But hes got to do it. There are 2 actions are going to happen, federal level and the state level. We got to work at the state level with the people. But i do believe that the president that in the end will do the right thing and the right thing would be before he leaves office to commute all the senses on death row, that people will not be able to be put to death. Well, we will certainly see if that happens style and thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Great jim. From the Death Penalty, we turn now to another issue affecting our legal system. False convictions, that conversation coming up next on upfront. Ah, innocent until proven guilty. Its a fundamental tenant of the u. S. Judicial system and its the backbone of the criminal process. However, at least 5 percent of the car, so population is wrongfully convicted. That means that about one in every 20 judgements puts an innocent person behind bars. More often than not. Its a person of color. There is now some recourse within the system, but exonerations are lengthy, complicated, and Legal Resources are not easily accessible. So what does this say about the u. S. Criminal Justice System . Joining us to discuss is advocate and author anthony hinton. Anthony was released in 2015 after spending 28 years on death row. Falsely convicted for robbery and double murder in 1985. Hes now Community Educator at the equal justice initiative. Anthony, thank you so much for joining us on up front. You were wrongly convicted for to capital murders in birmingham, alabama. Almost 4 decades ago, police force the identified you. They then searched your mothers house. They found your mothers revolver and linked you to the killings without any other physical evidence. As a result, you spent nearly 30 years in prison talk to me about the, the specific factors that you would say influence your arrest and your conviction. Well, let me 1st say thank you for having me, but all the toners often did not fan are gone and my mother house, i am the one who told them that my mother only smith weston handler. And i told him, because i knew that i hadnt committed the crime and now was brought up to always tell the truth. And that day i told the truth in little did i know that they would get to go tell a lie like the gone match. And it would cost me almost my life in this system is a system. They treat you better if you rich and go take a poll to report them. So i didnt have the money to hi, decent defense. And therefore, the system, if you dont have the money, i cannot eat, convict you. But he can eat, come pick 2 more easily. If youre born black in paw and when you have to rely on a state appointed turner, which i had to rely on. And so conviction was very easy for them to obtain incentives me to bear knowing that i was in the suit, they didnt make an honest mistake. They did it on purpose. This system is work in exactly the way it was designed to work. And it was designed to put me in the car behind the prison wall for many people. They can wrap their minds around a mistake. They can even wrap their minds around police, believing that youre guilty and being a little overzealous in closing the case because they noted got the right guy. But in your case, youre saying they just made the stuff up, they lied and its not just your case. We hear about false confessions, ah, we hear about government misconduct planted evidence, this kinds of stuff all the time. Its hard for many americans, though many people around the world to wrap their mind around the idea that these things are happening wilfully, that these arent just hard working. Police officers who sometimes make a mistake. Well, you know, i can tell people that are coming to town. This system have been noonish from the 1800 to the 19 log back in 18. 1900. A white woman could say a black man all looked to him wrong. He was charge. What a crown, no m dash o milam was you mich . No evidence. And so we still have this modern day linton, we just have a different so were starting to see the reports coming out as people look into these exonerating cases. And we find the kind of flaws youre talking about. Now on a positive note, is that w