Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240713

Thank you good luck to you. And. Like many women on death row china for no longer has contact with her family. Her brothers and sisters want nothing to do with her and even her own mother testified against her child. In 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. The only one who continues to raise her daughter jasmine. She was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced said that. Events of her and since this nightmare haunts for a day and night. After being harassed she had to change her name and moved out of state. You often think of her mother. All the time. Theres no day that goes by i dont think. I wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. And tire and put her in my closet. That none of this would happen that she wanted to end it. Over there when she got framed for she did it. I was a kid i had a pretty decent life. To nothing. To lower than nothing you were 17 at the time youre a student what happened to that. Dropped out. My family turned their back on me. I lived in a tent in the middle of winter time just to survive. People emailing me and said my family should be and still. They say that it was my fault. That i shouldnt be here i should be dead. I hated america. Has still do. And i love my country but i hate the people. You sometimes. The phone call that would tell you that your mom might be executed yes. But if so that i want to be there. I want her to be my face not the people around her that want her dead person that wants her there. One less of. A minute for my dad which me for the rest well i for willing to take that risk. Her mothers execution seems inevitable. Unless she can finally have a new trial. In the United States very few women on death row managed to prove their innocence. Until the last minute but they are almost never able to overturn a decision. Since 976 only 6 women have been released. We met one of them and nashville tennessee. Convicted for plotting the murder of her husband who beat her she was released in 2015 and died in 2019 she lived in a home for battered women. It was the only place that would accept this old woman who was poor and seriously ill. After Breast Cancer contracted in prison and several pneumonias. To me and lived with. What they say yesterday. No cancer in the. Longer they had a miscarriage or. Like to go you know do some traveling you know everything. Right now all this thing is about saving money but you know what you know. In this place. If it wasnt for this place id be living under a bridge. While you have had a lot of here you got your 1st cell phone yes but 1st. We got to be a part of the 1st text and found calls that was by. Now your yes. Teaching myself. Michelle byron receives a retirement pension of 600. 00 a month and less. In a year. Home and will be on her own she will have to over again with no compensation from. The wrong. Thing even get the money they get when you leave. I mean get ahead. And you are going to think you are no. So now youre on your own and so i dont know. Ive come through too many obstacles. To let it get me down. What Michelle Byron went through is inconceivable. After 14 years on death row she was suddenly released just a few hours before being executed. The woman convicted of killing her husband was not executed today the state Supreme Court wants more time to review the case. Michelle byron learned about her release in a surprising way. And the little girl on this for was next door to me she said youre not going to be executed youre free. And you know ive heard that so many. On the news. And on the news and i said. 16 to be executed in 8 hours her sentence was overturned. Michelle byron always claims her innocent was. Own son also charged always insisted that he murdered his father. For 14 years he wrote her letters where he clearly admitted to the murder. Im going to tell you that you know i did and it wasnt for the money it was for the. Letters that were never taken into account by the court this evidence should have cleared Michelle Byrons name and allowing her to receive a large financial compensation. Everybody was going to go for your new trial go see a new trial but then i found out. At the last minute there wasnt going to be a trial. And thats why i couldnt understand why all of us. Everybody turned against. To and what did you want to do that they said take the plea plate take the no contest take no contest and then a month later i figured out why they wanted me to take this because i had cancer i found out a month after i was finally released that i had 3rd stage Breast Cancer. And said that i have had it for years at the stage it was c. M. And they had taken a mammogram at the prison so they knew i had it. What does it mean. For you taking no contest is to save their face so they dont get sick. And they dont have to pay anything. The state should have paid for initial buyers medical expenses but by signing the no contest agreement she gave up her rights. To free in the eyes of the law she was not pardoned she remained guilty consequently she was not able to sue the state or obtain any compensation for her damages they took my life. Taking my life to this day still my life is still being taken away from me my pleasure has been taken away from me. My hopes have been taken away from me. I mean so much as even apology is. Wasted life and a deep sense of injustice. This is also what a judge at the mississippi Supreme Court thought. Oliver diaz was one of the 7 judges who reexamined. Proceedings. He believed from the start. And that she needed to be released. While i was on the court in 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place. Even though i had written an opinion urging the rest of my fellow judges to overturn that conviction because i thought there were problems and i thought it should be overturned she remained in prison and stayed there for i think another 11 years or so after. As. Has never forgotten michel case which remains his greatest. Since. Hes made a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of the death penalty. For the poor and. Rich people generally dont go to. Poor people do. I mean if youve got the resources if youre wealthy if youre rich if youve got your own private attorneys and you can hire investigators and you have witnesses youre not going to get a death row support people that cant fight back they dont have the resources if you dont have those resources the chances of you being convicted. Dramatically at that point. I dont trust medical authority at all ever and there isnt for that as i had this horrible autoimmune disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like diet has nothing to do with out on the inner starters so my suggestion to people who have Health Issues they cant figure out if theyre going to see a medical professional and theyve been going for 10 years and theyre still in the same place they should probably take it upon themselves to Start Testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their own. Once the sentence is pronounced it is almost impossible to reverse it. When somebody is convicted once theres a conviction in place the state very rarely ever mean they they will proceed as though you were completely guilty from that point on the state will. Sort of like the Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator movie is not going to stop until its over ive seen cases where prosecutors have theres newly discovered d. N. A. In the case which will tell you who should have been convicted and prosecutors will fight that they dont want this d. N. A. Tested because they already have a conviction employees why risk overturning the conviction technically today for the state of mississippi is still iffy technically she is guilty. But. In exchange the state has said she served all the time that she needs to. More than a 1000000. 00 medical expenses. And. Another case. Accused of killing her 2 year old daughter. The media covered the story the case of a poor. Mother. And her daughter in law refused to believe that melissa would have her. It was an accident. We went to see the body before. I mean we had that in our head. They said she had trauma. To the head. And she had a broken arm. And. Told. I dont believe it was melissa they did it. I dont. They were i mean there was a house full of children i mean small kids i mean i dont know i honestly dont believe it was her. I dont mean bone in her body i mean she never disciplined these kids so i remember her yelling you know but i mean i said to her kids. In the home. Ive never known the so never spanked i wish you would if. You could all these kids theyve been through a lot richard trying to hate him so. He tried to hang himself. Using this because of what they want to do harm. One of their mom. And imagine going from foster care to foster care. And somebody elses. You need your mom. Mr was a good mother. Following the arrest of elisa lose show the family was broken apart and the children were placed in homes all over texas. They have never seen their mother again. I dont know why my sister sitting on death row i do go to society having 13 children. There just doesnt make any sense that ill. Have anybody that sat through that trial knows that my sisters child was the circus it was just awful. She stood no chance. She stood no chance we tried to be going everywhere pro bono everybody 150. 00 just started 150002 start or do we come up with that money we could sell everything and we still dont have that many do you feel. Her attorneys for the trial no not at all. Not at all. Believes that the lawyers assigned to the case botched the trial. They never interrogated her family or any of her children. This is. This is where she lives. Nor did they investigate and mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. We. Could have been the cause of her head trauma. From here they were movie and in between that time that. Happened to me how i mean my sister is moving stuff and whatever she had. Time to abuse. The younger boys are the ones that dated. I dont even. Saw. The kids it was just coming from the smaller children m. R. I have fallen down the stairs. 13 stairs. I mean a baby i mean she had she had no. Role or protect herself and she could have been hitting her head as she was falling down and then hit her last. They say she had a concussion to the head. Right there. This accident which was witnessed by my sons was never taken into account by the court even though they had told this to the police when their mother was arrested. Despite the evidence that was never taken into account. State appeals have all failed. Her last job is to appeal to the u. S. Supreme. Meanwhile shes on gainesville death row with slim chance of escaping execution. This is the 1st time shes been interviewed about this crime she has always maintained her innocence. And the thing before. The welcome so tell me how long have you been. In texas. Undead roe ive been here. Going on 9 years on august 12th will be 9 years. Did you ever think that Something Like this would happen. You know. Huge do you feel that used to when this trial the trial of the no no no. Why is that. Because they. I think the jury when the jury walked in and they saw. They saw these pictures of my daughter. Im sure they. They agreed with what the District Attorney was you know trying to convince them that i was guilty so i think they came they came in already thinking that they were going there accused by me. You know. Murdering my daughter. And how many of your appeals have been the one who. I would appeal live so that means my last appeal will go into the u. S. Supreme court so that will be my last resort and if i get the night there then i get an execution date. You see here. I wouldnt say im scared. I just feel for my children now. Not being able to. Say goodbye to them. In this. Whats your biggest regret. Oh. Im not being the mother that i should have been to my children. Being. A drug addict. Putting my drugs before my children. I think thats my biggest regret. You know everybody. You know they they hear about their role when they won a you know put a tag on a sin and that were the worst of the worst and were not. You know some of us did lee lead our whole lives out there but were not. The person that theyre accusing us of been in if there is if there are some women on death row that are guilty of the charge you know. Something was going on with them up in the world that led them to do what they did but. Nobody can nobody should inject anybody because everybody sins every day nobodys perfect we all make mistakes a statement that could be her last words thank you thank you so much what. Is the next woman on the list of those to be executed in texas. When the. Public all right thank you only the Supreme Court can save her now. In arlington in south texas her family is also preparing for the worst. When they meet they remember happy times as if to ward off the misfortune times when Melissa Lucio danced to her brothers music. And. 6 that. That was one of melissas favorite that was the one time voice is something you can count on paper yeah sure. Growing up which was kind of like my savior more than my mom the older. Little monster which is not sure where she ever flows mosharraf wrote she heard her say she was a liberal but moved it wasnt enough. To be a murderer and this is. Why im just scared. To proceed to. The. Trenches think about it because. How can i be happy how can i. Have a life and she. I have a letter that im using to i dont know. Im scared just a few. Packets we dont see why i dont want to be counted because im scared to. Do assume you still feel you are not a. Problem says she does no good google is here. Where. There is still hope. And is able to say. If she was executed near future would you go. To what would go. Nova students who go. For the families of those on death row. Its torture. And unbearable waits and often in comprehensible punishments whether these women are guilty or innocent its. 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