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China for no longer has contact with her family. Her brothers and sisters want nothing to do with her. And even her own mother testified against her child. In 6 years, she has not had one single visit from her family. The only one who continues to raise 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 your name and moved out of state. You often think of her mother all the time. Theres no day that goes by, i dont think i wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time and tire. Put her in my closet. None of this would happen that she wanted to end it. Oh. Over there when she got framed for she did i was a kid. I had a pretty decent to nothing to lower than nothing. You were 17 at the time youre a student. What happened to that dropped out. C 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 and still they say that it was my 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 youre 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 are less of a miniature of my dead, which me for the rest. Well, i believe 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. And until the last minute, they are almost never able to overturn a decision. Since 976 only 6 women have been released, one of them and nashville, tennessee convicted for plotting the murder of her husband who beat her. She was released in 2015 and in 2019 she lived in a home for battered women. This was the only place that would accept this woman who was poor and seriously ill after Breast Cancer contracted in prison and several pneumonias to me and lived with what they say yesterday. No cancer in the head 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, i would be living under a bridge. While you have had a lot of here, you got your 1st. Yes. But 1st, very well, you got to be a part of the 1st calls that now youre teaching myself. 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. I dont even get the money that you get when you leave. I mean, you can get ahead and you are. I didnt think you would know. So now youre on your own, and so i dont know 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 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 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 that you know, i did, 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 to. And what they do want to do that. 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 c. N. N. And they had taken a mammogram and prison, so they knew i had it. What does it mean for you taking 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 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 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 to michele 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 oliver diaz, now retired has never forgotten. Michel, which remains his greatest regret. Since then, 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 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 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. During the vietnam war there was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know country per capita. Millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country. Even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. Is the us making amends for that tragedy and help to the people need in that little it is almost impossible to 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. 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 more than a 1000000. 00, not counting medical expenses, but how can you defend yourself when youre poor and about to be executed. 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 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 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. I remember her yelling, you know, but i mean the kids no, i never know the senators and i wish you would if you could all 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 wrong. One of their mom can imagine going from foster care to foster care and somebody elses you need your mom. My sister was a good mother. Following the arrest of millys 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. 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 150008 star or do we come up with that money . You 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. Sister believes that the lawyers assigned to the case botched the trial. They never interrogated her family or any of her children since this is where she live. Nor did they investigate and 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 whatever she had time to abuse. The younger boys are the ones that dated. It was just coming from the smaller children, imo, i have fallen down the stairs. I mean a baby. I mean, 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 concussion to the head right there. Which was witnessed by i was never taken into account by the 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 her last job is to appeal to the u. S. Supreme court shes on gainesville death row. This is the 1st time shes been interviewed about this crime. She has always maintained her innocence. And the thing before you welcome. So 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, you do feel that used to the chance when the struggle, the trial, the now you know. Now why is that . Because the i think the jury, when the jury walked in and they saw they saw these pictures of my daughter, and 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 benaud, murdering my daughter. And how many of your appeals have been the one to i would 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 who not being the mother that i should have been to my children being a drug that it put my drugs before i children i think thats 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 this and, and that were the worst of the worst. And were not, you know, some of us deadly lead awful 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 them out in 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 much. 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 is something you can count on when you play the yeah, youre growing up. This is kind of like my savior. More in my mind that i want to hold on to her and be a little monster. Which is not sure where she ever flows. Mosharraf rose, she heard her say she was a liberal, but it wasnt. You know, to be murdered. This is im just scared. Its its its tragic, i think about it because i said, how can i be happy . How can i have a life . And she i have a love letter that im giving to. I dont know the status of you know how it is and then we dont see why i dont want to be counted because im scared to leave you to see you still feel internet open process. She has no political voice. You hear that there is no hope and is able to say if she was a heated new year she chose you go go. Nova students who 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 on election night, you may know whether the margin for the winner is so large that it is impossible for the defeated candidate to catch up. So there may still be 10000 votes that count by the margin is 80000 votes. It doesnt matter if all 10000 votes went for the defeated candidate, they cannot possibly catch up and thats where we are today. Joe bidens margin is so large in all of the states that are being contested, that even though some of the states have not finished county, they still know who won. And joe biden won a majority of the Electoral College votes. He has the one which will give those will suit wolf. Theres the door, but the truth to the probable cause, if youre sure i care for it doesnt actually matter the age that would have been murdered by you could go with us because all of those who do use that word because those dont get me again. 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, come on and it is the of the 20th century was doing in a year 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 among the stories that shape the week are historic peace deal brokered by moscow, by armenia and azerbaijan, and the almost 2 Russian Military personnel are in the region to uphold the truce. Armenians however have been taking to the streets like using the countrys Prime Minister to trail the truth in a