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In 2016 the state of georgia broke the record for the most executions in the United States. Each time anti Death Penalty associations demonstrate for hours trying to stop the execution. Come down every time theres an execution to. Have a presence here to say i dont think its right and the state shouldnt be taking laws of anybody no matter what the circumstances are and so i feel responsible 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 are locks for latinos for people in general mostly men but also women. The last 2 women executed was kelly. She was the 55th woman to be put to death since the start of the 20th century. And. 46 year old kelly renee just some downer is such a diet 7 pm by lethal injection she was convicted of murder for the 1997 stabbing over 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 yall 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 hopefully that stuff as were going to see her again this weekend saturday. Even pope francis putting her case. Down or was it hard. Or final words were broadcast on t. V. And on the radio. And when she. Says why. Should you. Just. Go. And have to. Go out. On september 30th 2016 at 12 21 am. That 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. Some have been on death row for over 15 years. In the county shawna forde and millicent looser have 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 uncommon 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 denounced these terrible conditions. The lawyers fight day and night to delay their executions in the distance from this is the police the some are convinced of their innocence. That showed 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 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. 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. 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 beat and. The men searched the house from top to bottom. Linda carty 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 joanna rodrigue as was found dead in the trunk of a car the infants was safe and sound. The car belongs to linda carter. 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 the world that you get the baby you deserve if you told anyone. Tell you about him getting a baby and not 7 days you havent told anybody that. You know i said i should have been having a baby i didnt say im in love baby life by in a baby i feel in a baby thats not what i thought and involved i can have a baby if i want to have a baby that ive been a 5 big deal you. I dont even got me a favor from adam now im getting fat all everybody is trying to put the mater on maybe quote the body was in my car ha ha ha theyve got the guy. 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. For the. United 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 from the truth. 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. Hes trying to prove that prosecutors tempered with evidence and. As a. District attorneys that handled this case they withheld evidence the witnesses reported. Were bullied into saying certain things and not saying certain things and when 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 card he sentenced to death in a border for the prosecutors to win elections. Are the only thing. No no the ones that admitted doing this the ones that had mid 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. As 60 minute interview with a woman considered to be one of the most dangerous in the United States. So. How worried are you. Thank you for accepting. This script to be home how is 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 you could see 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 on my daughter and my friends helping me to clear my name that i wont become a burden for anyone either for the rest of my life. Oh. So much of them we really dont need thats what this all walk down is teaching so many millions of people but most of their lives are all wasted on stuff thats unnecessary costly redundant and doesnt promote social good at all. Are the times where you cant eat it 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 and youre going to 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 were not allowed to have the visits with even your old sabzi. Just 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 family was a mental and emotional torture that also affects their children and grandchildren. Develop carty lindas 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 their christmas the. Mom gets copies of all of these photos and we try to send as many as possible the boys. 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. 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 kids ask 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 house theyre doing was last time we talked to nana are we when are we going to be able to go see 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. 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. 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. A place in the middle of the desert close to the mexican border. Communities 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. Now sentenced to death for executing a mexican family suspected of trafficking drugs. Her friend lane wallace has also 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 in 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 for his 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. You can see like to praise the merits of her militant actions 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 order. Of i dont have enough i have one gun on me and. Were not getting people trying to pin 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. Plane 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 arab docket 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 and the husband were. Shannon 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 floor 9 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 they got in the head in the head theyre the people who are there that shot him. The cover back there. On the phone the 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 into our news for you is real 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 sana for his lawyer believe there is no evidence that his client was present at the scene of the kind. Which he claims proves shawn 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 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 there were 357. 00 caliber revolver. And 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. Not president of at the florist she is simply wasnt there. This is also what shawna forde has been claiming since she was arrested 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. Interview yes. Ok thank you. Because the slowness of the bhutto them slow moving. Good news hoover local was before. Much of those who heard its a preview of the most you ever seen him we will. We will we will. Move. Move. Move show you the snooper you of the liberal media look very good or. More just like most of these girls will give you films for go go go. Go go to shows look why do you distribute belonging to show the story of the you should go. 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