00:00I'm not asking for her to be out of jail.
00:03I understand what she's done was horrific.
00:14But as a sister,
00:18as a sister, I want her here.
00:30As it stands, I think she will be the first person that they try to execute in 2021.
00:39And that in and of itself, I think, is symbolic of a degree of barbarity and cruelty
00:47that seems to harken back to a much more,
00:56a much more primitive era in human existence.
01:16When the abuse started, I stepped in to take the abuse so that she wouldn't have to endure it.
01:33And I ended up getting taken away about eight and a half by the state of Kansas.
01:40But Lisa never had that.
01:42So when I left at age eight and a half, it went to her.
01:48So the abuse continued on for her all the way into adulthood, into her first marriage,
01:57whom he perpetuated all the abuse that she had endured during her childhood.
02:06Though as a child, she was sex trafficked by her mother.
02:10She was raped over a period of years by her stepfather,
02:14who built a special room for her on the side of their trailer
02:19so that he and his friends could go in and rape her without anyone else noticing.
02:26So she now is somebody who, because of this repeated trauma,
02:31has a psychotic disorder that prevents her from maintaining contact with reality
02:38unless she has very heavy psychotropic medication.
02:43There's nobody else on death row who presents with that history of trauma.
02:57My heart definitely goes out to the family.
03:11I know that they were hurting then.
03:14They are hurting now.
03:17There are two families that have been destroyed by this,
03:22and their family has definitely been destroyed by this.
03:26And I completely understand.
03:30But the thing is, is that she has mental illness.
03:37And you add mental illness, and then you add the sexual abuse, the mental abuse,
03:43the gang rapes that continued on and on, the physical abuse.
03:50She broke.
03:52She literally broke.
03:54She is now on the right kind of medication before she was not.
04:06And now she is realizing the depth of what has happened.
04:14She has great remorse over it.
04:18I just don't feel like putting her to death is justice.
04:24So
04:44we know that this government is in favor of the death penalty.
04:48We know that they are executing more people than any government before them
04:54for the last 130 years.
04:58But we still never believed they would try to execute Ms. Montgomery.
05:02And that is because her case presents such a powerful, compelling story for clemency.
05:19So
05:29why did they schedule her execution out of out of all the other people?
05:38So the ask of President Trump, it's a very small ask.
05:48It's not saying, you know, pardon Lisa Montgomery the way other people have been pardoned.
05:54It's not saying, you know, release her.
05:57It's saying, let her live the rest of her life in prison.
06:00I'm begging you as a sister, but as a survivor, also,
06:05I'm begging you to look at the torture that she had lived and to grant her clemency
06:14and to let her live her life out.
06:16I'm not asking you to release her.
06:19Just give her life.
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