Debra Milke speaks out — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00two decades on arizona's death row
2. 0:02deborah milke is now free for good and
3. 0:04today for the first time she is breaking
4. 0:06her silence about the murder of her
5. 0:07four-year-old son abc 15's elizabeth
6. 0:10irwin was at today's news conference and
7. 0:11elizabeth it was pretty emotional katie
8. 0:14and steve emotions range from relief to
9. 0:16anger and sadness deborah milke spent
10. 0:18the past 25 years trying to prove she
11. 0:20did not commit the crime that sent her
12. 0:22to death row today she spoke to
13. 0:24reporters about her conviction her time
14. 0:26on death row and her grief over the
15. 0:29death of her son four-year-old
16. 0:30christopher murdered in 1989 shot three
17. 0:33times in the back of the head milkey's
18. 0:35conviction centered around a confession
19. 0:37detective armando saldate said came from
20. 0:40milky just hours after the crime but
21. 0:42from the beginning milky has maintained
22. 0:44her innocence saying that confession
23. 0:46never happened she was sentenced to
24. 0:48death based on that alleged confession a
25. 0:50punishment overturned by the courts when
26. 0:52the detective was found to be unreliable
27. 0:54the case dismissed altogether just
28. 0:56monday we asked milky what's next
29. 1:00my son's gone my mother is gone and
30. 1:04so i just asked a question now what so i
31. 1:07really don't know
32. 1:10i don't know all i can do is take one
33. 1:12day at a time
34. 1:14milky is suing the state the detectives
35. 1:16on her case and maricopa county attorney
36. 1:18bill montgomery she wouldn't talk about
37. 1:20that lawsuit today maricopa county
38. 1:22attorney bill montgomery didn't want to
39. 1:24comment today but he has called the
40. 1:25decision a quote dark day for arizona's
41. 1:28criminal justice system in the past
42. 1:30elizabeth thank you some big