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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 her life we want to know that were still fighting 2. 00 your face this is not over theres a reason that we didnt get to see her today and help me that such as were going to see her again this weekend that they. Even pope francis putting her case. Against him down or was it hard. Or final words were broadcast on t. V. And on the radio. Hosts like. This should. Go. Unnoticed so shes going to. On september 30th 2015 at 12 21 am. Or was executed she was 47 years old. And 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 county 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 for better and. Their families denounce these terrible conditions. Lawyers fight day and night to delay their executions in the distance from police this is the police the some are convinced of their innocence i. Did shut up for what is not. Botched trials Court Appointed lawyers and scripture has judges and prosecutors the families believe that the deck was stacked against that anybody that set that trial knows that my sisters trial was a circus that was just awful even when theyre proven and it sends the nightmare continues. That. 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. A child kidnapping and homicide that led to the arrest of linda. This 43 year old woman lived in a poor neighborhood known for Drug Trafficking her neighbors joanna. And her mom. Had just moved to the United States from mexico. They just had a baby 2 days earlier. Is believed to have devised the plot to steal their baby. On may 16th 2001 in the middle of the night the couples home was stormed by 3 armed men the 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. And friends was safe and sound. The car belonged. In her hotel room baby items were found. She had even made her neighbors believe she was pregnant she denied everything to the police. And if you told him. If you told anyone. Tell you about him getting the baby and not 7 days you havent told anybody that. I said i have been having a baby i didnt say im. Buying a baby i feel im a baby thats not what i thought and involved i can have a baby if i want to have a baby that are going to cry big you. May. I dont even got me a favor from adam now im getting fat all everybody 5 put the model. The body was in my car. Theyve got the guy. And theyve got you. The evidence was overwhelming. For a kidnapping and murder. In texas. Would have been executed. Had not been fighting for years to get her a new trial. States. For 16 years. They spent more than 4000000. 00 trying to. Hold. Her. So this would have been the original police. Became one of the biggest pieces of evidence we had. Because this was the police report. The video of the key one who did it all being interviewed by the police when he was 1st and telling the story completely different than what he told and so this. Is trying to prove that prosecutors tempered with evidence and. As a. District attorneys that handled this case they withheld evidence the witnesses reported they were bullied into saying certain. 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 and 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. That carty sentenced to death in a border for the prosecutor to win elections. Are the only thing. 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 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. As 60 minute interview with a woman considered to be one of the most dangerous in the United States. So. I learned her you. Thank you for accepting. This script to be how has your life your. Moments you know 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 youre caught in that valley. You know whenever a 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 by 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 my friends helping me to clear my name and that i wont become a burden for anyone. For the rest of my life. So much. We really dont need thats what this whole walk down there is teaching so many millions of people but most of their lives were wasted on. Unnecessary costs. And doesnt promote good at all. Said you know. How. When i dont been in this is knowing sunk in something that you dont want at one time i have to guess i mean dog. Was learning the. Moment because we dont drink this time ill tell me. Something. Thats. Very uncertain. Woke up and the baby had a fever of 38 so point 30 were hoping that. That it will all be ok. Our lead times were you cant eat it any more. Than i have a daughter at that i went to where the law i truly love and its this place is enough of a bible for hot sauce for me to try to commit suicide or to give up or anything. I feel as though i would fail my child shes my kids she has 2 boys i have to wait and see them and then ive met one you know because were not allowed to have visits with our kids. Because the state says that if you have a. Crime against a child that you were not allowed to have the visits with even your old sadly. Family members who are kids. Into them every 90 days like all women on death row linda carter has no physical contact with her family visits are always behind the bulletproof glass. These 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. Awakens 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. 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. So. They write letters. Trying to keep in contact. David on whats going on. Children who have never seen the grandmother that they hear about all the time and who will one day learn the truth about her. 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 the kids ask all the time. All the time mothers day was always pretty difficult at our house. 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 see them 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 off 23 hours a day. Nonstop. And the one hour that she gets to come out of this cell 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 sanity go. Not surprisingly many who are condemned to death madness long before being executed. Arizona a place in the middle of the desert close to the mexican border. Community of only 30000 people is a mixture of newcomers. And vigilante groups who tried 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 educated 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 a and a r 15 you really shouldnt go out to places where theres drug smugglers to not carry along. You made something. Seana for his organization was a nationalist militia which claim 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 actions and she knew are of like the back of her hands. There is an extremely dangerous paragraphs matter of fact so dangerous that im revealing to bring order. As i dont have enough i have one gun on me and. Were not getting people trying to spin lawyers and doctors here ok for 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 theres 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 scapegoat 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 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 in the husband were. China 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. Resign your florists line and her father role florus died on the spot with a bullet in the head 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 to where were they. In the head in the head theyre the people who were there that shot him. The cover 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. How many people were there i dont know. Like males are talking there with a male in the. Woman. Ok now the woman let it. Take me. Home and. Taking leave is just coming in to join us for newsroom 3 people have been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion. Your 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 sana for his lawyer believe there is no evidence that his client was present at the scene of the kind. Which he claims prove sean affords innocence. We see a mysterious woman carrying a weapon similar to the one found at the scene of the kind. This womans identity is still unknown today. In the 1st place Gina Gonzalez 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 differently 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. 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