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Fault. That i shouldnt be here i should be dead. I hated america. Has still do. No love my country but i hate the people. You sometimes your. 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. In a few of 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 pneumonia. To me and lived with. What they say yesterday. No cancer in the. Longer they had a miscarriage or. Id like to go you know do some traveling you know everything. Right now well the 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 live by. Now your yes. Pete. 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 can be wrong you know i think 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 in them you know. So now youre on your own and so are mile. Ive come through too many obstacles. To let it get me down. 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 times now she says its 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 youre innocent was. Your 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 allow her to receive a large financial compensation. Everybody was going to go for a new trial go see a new trial but then i found out that. 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 they do 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 no count 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. N. N. 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. To free in the eyes of the law she was not pardoned she remains 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 even a. 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 that her guilt was unfounded and that she needed to be released in the machine case while i was on the court in 2003 the majority of the judges voted to keep her conviction in place to keep her on death row 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 i wrote my opinion oliver diaz now retired has never forgotten michel case which remains his greatest regret. Since. Hes made a point of speaking in the media about the unfairness of the death penalty. A 2 tier system where the poorest in advance. Rich people generally dont go to death row 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 go to death row support people that cant fight back they dont have the right. Sources if you dont have those resources the chances of you being convicted are go up dramatically at that point. They are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didnt commit i dont even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely from the past actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is. You know those will suit will push sleeves. But. Do w. Clubbable was if you are sure. I can avoid it that doesnt actually matter vegetable would have been murdered by. You got to go with us because all of these to do just about because those stories could be game we will see in the movie it is with the weve seen the most news but its the most severe some of it is in your speech coming off the news the. 20th century was thing in or of revolution the Great Depression and world war the 21st century of mental illness. Those arent my words thats what surfaced some psychiatry to tell us the only question is should we accept it as a fact. The world is driven by shaped by phone person. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. It is almost impossible. Somebody is convicted once theres a conviction in place the state very rarely ever i mean they they will proceed as though you are completely guilty from that point on the state will. Not going to stop until its over ive seen cases where prosecutors say. 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 in place. In that conviction technically today for the state of mississippi. Technically she is guilty. But. In exchange. She needs to serve. Means that she cant sue. Me which. I think its about 100000. 00 a year for each year that you serve. Something around there. Somewhere over a 1000000. 00 probably over 10 years on death row. More than a 1000000. 00 not counting medical expenses but how can you defend yourself when youre poor and about to be executed. Virtually all women on death row. And. Another case. Accused of killing her 2 year old daughter. It was 40 when she was convinced that in 2008 the media barely covered the story the case of a poor drug addicted hispanic woman mother of 13 children generated no interests. Her sister and her daughter in law refused to believe that melissa would have hurt mariah. To go through that it was an accident caused by a. We went to see the body before they brought her out i mean we had that in our head what happened was. They said she had trauma she had trauma to the head. And she had a broken arm. But that could have been from the. Only one i have. A buddy year and a half old. I dont believe it was melissa the 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 the kids. In the home. Ive never known the senators and i wish you would if. You could all these. 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 with. One of them. And imagine going from foster care to foster care. And. Somebody knows. You need your mom. Mr was a good mother. Following the arrest of middle east solution 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 you know to society having 13 children. There just doesnt make any sense that ill. Have anybody that sat through that trial knows that my sisters trial was a 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 100008 star or do we come up with that money we can sell everything and we still dont have that money do you feel that her attorneys for the trial nope 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 an accident that mariah suffered 2 days before the tragedy. We. Fall down the stairs which could have been the cause of her head trauma so from here they were moving and in between that time that accident happened so to me how i mean my sisters moving stuff and whatever she had where would she have time to abuse. The younger boys are the ones that stated that mariah fell i dont even think. Soft. 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. Course 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. State appeals have all failed. Her last job is to appeal to the u. S. Supreme court. 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 theyre saying before. We welcome so tell me how long have you been. 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 you feel that you stupid when the struggle to try to no no no no. 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 guilty of. You know. Murdering my daughter. And how many of your appeals have been and i will. 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. I use 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. Not being the mother that i should have been to my children. Being. A drug get it. Put in my drugs before battle group. I think thats my biggest regret. You know everybody. You know they they hear about that bro 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 any 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 its 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. Public all right thank you only the Supreme Court can save her now. In arlington and 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. 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 role she heard her say she was a liberal but. It wasnt enough. To be a murder and this is. Im just scared. Its. True. Actually think about it because i can see how can i really have to go can i. Have a life. I have a love it or is it isnt it i dont know. Im scared this instead of you know. How kids know we dont see why i dont want to be counted because im scared to eat im. Going to see you youre still sealed youre not open. Process she was no good girl is that. Theres no hope. And settle down so. If she was a few good men here she chose you go. To. Go. Overseas to go but i would go. For the families of those on death row is torture. And unbearable waits and often in comprehensible punishments whether these women are guilty or innocence. By claims victory but what about those who get into trouble when they say now not my president is your facing another wave of terrorism is me a liberal ideology showing signs of exhaustion. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. High salacious for community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Direct. What is truth what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallowest. Seemed wrong why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape out these days to come out ahead and engagement because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. The or tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didnt commit i dont even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and then one that is a. You know personal soup wolf theres. Your. Truth to the lovable was. Sure. I care for it it doesnt actually matter the age to put a gun by. You to go with us because all of these to do just about because those stories could be game we will see in the in the it is with it would seem to most of us but its the most insidious some of put it in your sleeves come on and use the of. The 20th century was thing in order of revolution the Great Depression and world war the 21st is the century of mental illness. Those arent my words thats what surfaced some psychiatry to tell us the only question is should we accept it as a fact. Supporters of President Trump take to the streets across the country refusing to accept the results of the election and theres a role reversal with team trump accusing the democrats of stealing the 20 twentieths vote 4 years after the opposition call them to republican victory. In europe expresses hope of better transatlantic ties under joe biden though not everyone on the continent is convinced. Also this hour azerbaijan captures a strategic town and the disputed province