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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. By come down every time theres an execution to. Have a presence here to say i dont think its right and states shouldnt be taking laws of anybody no matter what the circumstances and so i feel responsible but obviously you know and 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 or people in general mostly men but also women. The last 2 women execute. It 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 him down or is set to die and 7 pm by lethal injection she was convicted of murder for the 1997 stabbing over 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. This weekend that they. Even pope francis putting the case. Against him down or was it hard to. Final words were broadcast on t. V. And on the radio. And the you know. You. Just should. Go. And that is how shes going to. Go on september 30th 2015 at 12 21 am. 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. Who 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. The plane 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 some are convinced of their innocence. They showed up for what is not. Botched trials Court Appointed lawyers and scripture judges and prosecutors the families believe that the deck was stacked against that anybody that sat in that trial knows that my sisters trial was a circus it 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 joanna has. 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. 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 was found dead in the trunk of a car the infants was safe and sound. The car belonged 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 that baby and not 7 days you havent told anybody that. You know i said i should be having a baby i didnt say im in love baby a life of buying a baby feeling a baby thats not what i thought and involved i can have a baby if i want to have a baby identify big new. Am. I dont even know the fate of my mad oh now im getting fat all everybody 5 the mother im a big quote the body was in my car i love this guy the guy you have me is jeff your favorite i got you. Evidence was overwhelming. Linda carty was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder. In texas linda carter would have been executed if his lawyer had not been fighting for years to get her a new trial. Michael goldberg words for the oldest law firm in. The United States. For 16 years. More than 4000000. 00 trying to. Hold. The 3. So this would have been the original police. Became one of the biggest pieces of evidence we had in the. Morning because this was the police report. The video of the 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. This case they withheld evidence in the witnesses reported how they were bullied into saying certain things. Certain things and we started hearing this independently independently the same story. And it all came into focus the jury was misled by the district attorneys and there was no fear. The prosecution. When considering the. Life in texas especially. To win elections you have to be seen as being someone strong strong is important and so if you have a judge that lets. The opponents will. Come in and say this judge is weak on crime and they lose linda carter sentenced to death in a border for the prosecutors to win election. 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 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. Im. Very worried here. Thank you for accepting. This script to be how does 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. 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 and my friends helping me to clear my name that i wont become a burden for anyone for the rest of my life. In. City you know. How. When i dont bring in visitors no you sunk in something that you dont want 100 might have to guess i mean dog. Was learning the. Moment because weve got 2 weeks time ill meet. Some. Very uncertain. Woke up and the baby had 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 2 grandsons and you havent met them have 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 are not allowed to have the visits with even your old sabc. Family members who are kids so no i dont get. Into them 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. 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. Awakened every morning at 3 am 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. When this 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. 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 as they possibly can and. They write letters. To keep in contact. Dated on whats going on our family gossip and if you go. Children who have never seen the grandmother that they hear about all the time and who will one day learn the truth about her crime. I usually have my mom with the newest announcement here anything thats new its cool everything like that picture will be the one that announcement next to it. Thats. Yes. Shes always included and the kids ask all the time. All the time mothers day was always pretty difficult. Part of the questions what kind of questions were is 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 rules to val 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 of the 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 to. Me hes 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. This 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 scent like in a 47 or an 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 claimed 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 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. But i dont have the numbers 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 theres 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 arca 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 at 9 and her father role florus died on the spot with a bullet in the head only survivor of the massacre Gina Gonzales brasenose 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 there the people who were there at that shot of. The cover back there. On the phone the assailants 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 there with that 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. 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 saana 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 is. A heavyset 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. Not president of the floors 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. Im going to get it to you yes. Ok thank you. For the coronavirus now officially declared a pandemic the world faces the additional burden of an Oil Market Collapse this comes at a time when demand for crude was already flown some are calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all. Plays against. She manatee is on the edge of a precipice thanks to a continuing destruction of the natural world. You just seem laid out a lot of bills also. Losing much of a later period. Where you have the people who need it. Less than nothing you can hold up. The. I think. The war. Or the. Only dealing in the muslim world as a global. You sit around and stuff it and shit them see that is the. Human activity has brought us to the brink of the worlds 6th major extinction of it and the people in this film just come take it and. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics Small Business im show business ill see you then. Greetings and salad you take issue with another we could down another about to begin we have to step step back and ask ourselves where do where do it where does everything stand auk watchers this week saw the end of the Bernie Sanders campaign for president of the United States after the man himself took to the airwaves wednesday to announce he was suspending his campaign and in a final showing of heart and true to the character of the remount sen 5 secure Sanders Campaign manager also announced this week that Campaign Workers would remain on the campaigns Health Care Plan through october and if you think thats not really