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To let me die its hard to find. Yourself when you know you have no human contact so that anybody gets convicted of something its outrageous or it automatically. Away from that person to stop or talk at all because you dont want to be associated and theres a kind somebody to live the dream and not much to mention reporting. To look out and develop and then let it go. By democracy when youre in town we have to wrap this up now we have to get oh ok well thank you so much. Thank you great and good luck on not thank you. Thank you. Like many women on death row china for no longer has contact with her family. Her brothers and sisters one nothing to do with her and even her own mother to. To fight against her child. In 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. The only one who continues to write her as her daughter jasmine. She was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced to death. Events of her any sense 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 about her. 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 ended up. 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 how the stock. 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 in state. They said that it was my fault. That i shouldnt be here and that i should be dead. I hated america. As still do. Not love my country but i hate the people. You sometimes hear. The phone call that would tell you that your mom might be executed yes. But if it 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. In a. Jail which may feel rest well i phone 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. Lawyers can fight 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. And spent 14 years on death row 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. This 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 a system. Where they say yesterday every night. No cancer in the. Longer they had a miscarriage or for a while. Id like to go you know do some traveling a you never think. Right now you know the thing is about saving money putting you away you know. In this place is help me do that. If it wasnt for this place. I would be living under a bridge. Well you have had a lot of fires here you got your 1st cell phone yes but 1st very very cell 9 we got to be a part of the 1st text and found calls that later by. Now youre. A teaching myself here. Michelle byron receives a retirement pension of 600. 00 a month and less than a year shell be forced to leave the home and will be on her own she will have to start all over again with no compensation from the state. All this after being wrongfully noting i dont even get the money that you get when you leave prison i mean you can get ahead. And you are i didnt think you were you know. So now youre on your own and so i dont know. How come through too many obstacles. So let it get me down. Michelle byron went through is unconceivable. After 14 years on death row she was suddenly released just a few hours before being executed. You know 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 and the 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. 6 to be executed in 8 hours her sentence was overturned. 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. 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 it. And what did you want to do then they said take the plea play take the no contest take no contest and then a month later i figured out why they wanted me to take no countess because i had cancer i found out a month after i was finally released that i had 3rd stage Breast Cancer. And they said that i have had it for years at the stage it was ian and they had taken a mammogram and prison so they knew i had it. What does it mean. For you to be 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. 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. 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. The wasted life and a deep sense of injustice. This is also what a judge at the mississippi Supreme Court thought. Was one of the 7 judges. Proceeding. 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. 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. Now retired has never forgotten me. Which remains his greatest regret. 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. On it will survive until they say that theyre. Only going to take it easy this is essential public support this kind of problem right now they stopped it. And were going to fulfill it. This is probably for the people. You know weve all pots. That you want to. Know. Once the sentence is pronounced it is almost impossible to reverse it. Once somebody is convicted once theres a conviction in place the state very rarely ever backs off i mean they they will proceed as though you are completely guilty from that point on the state will not back off its 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 a 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 in place why risk overturning that conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. Technically she is guilty. But. In exchange the state has said she served all the time that she needs to serve but means that she can sue the script so hot. 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. It was and. 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. I dont believe it was. 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. Had only one bone in her body i mean she never disciplined these kids so i remember her yelling you know but i mean i said to spank her kids. You know. Ive never known the senators and i wish you would if. You could all of these kids theyve been through a lot richard try 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 a release a loose 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 a danger 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 you can sell everything and we still dont have that many do you feel that her attorneys for the trial nope not at all. Sister believes that the lawyers assigned to the case botched the trial. They never interrogated her family or any of her children. Says. This is where she lives. Nor did they investigate an accident that mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. We. Could have been the cause of her head trauma. From here they were moving and in between that time that accident 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. 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 didnt know how to. Roll 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 to come to a concussion to the head. Right there. Which was witnessed by a. 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. Have all failed. 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. You welcome so tell me how long have you been. Since. On death row 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 you stood a chance when the struggle the trial the no you know now. 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 me and by me. You know. Murdering my daughter. And how many of your appeals have been annoying to. I have one 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 thats. Whats your biggest regret. Oh. Im not being the mother that i should have been to my children. Being. A drug addict. Put my drugs before patil great. I think thats my biggest regret. You know everybody you know they they hear about that role when they won a you know put a tag on a scent and that were the worst of the worst and were not you know some of us deadly lead apu lives out there but were not the person that theyre accusing us of being in if there is if there are some women on that road that are guilty of the charge. You know. Something was going on with the muck and 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 what. Is the next woman on the list of those to be executed in texas. When the. Elderly 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 says sonny on tape yeah sure. Growing up which was kind of like my savior more mom on the older. Maybe a little monster which is not sure where she ever froze mosharraf roll she heard her say she was a little bit but. It wasnt enough. To be a nerd. It was just. Im just scared. This. Trip. Think about it because i can see how can i become you how can i. Have a life and she. I have a letter that im using it i dont know. Im scared to send if you know. How kids know we dont see why i dont want to be counted because im scared to eat i. Do assume you still feel youre not open. Up says she does no good google is here that. There is still hope. And hes able to say. If she was and he did maybe your future would you go. What would it go. Over the students who go but i would 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 innocence. Humanity is on the edge of the precipice thanks to continuing destruction of the natural world. Who just seem laid out a lot of bills also received at losing a larger one later if you. Take. Less than nothing you can hold up. For the new. I think that all of the war. There or the. Only dealing in the muslim world just as i am will book you sit around and stuff it and shit then see that disables the middle. Of human activity has brought us to the brink of the worlds 6th major extinction event and the people in this film just come take it anymore. The outbreak of the corona virus has become a black swan event for the Global Economy is no longer whether the u. S. And other economies will slip into recession the question now is how long the recession will last its going to get worse before it gets better. I am max kaiser this is the kaiser report so much that we really need thats what this all locked down is teaching so many millions of people that most of their lives are wasted on stuff thats unnecessary costly redundant and doesnt promote social good at all. And basically m. S. M. Basically c. N. N. Suckers. Dont forget theres only one way i digress