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The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years,

until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

America, y'all better work the hell up.

Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

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I am a very different person now than I was 30 years ago.

In certain ways, I'm still the same.

I'm still a very loving person, a very compassionate person, a very affectionate person,

but I have a mental illness that is treated now.

Over the last 30 years on death row, a lot has changed for Krista, even as much has stayed the same.

She's been medicated for her mental illness.

She's engaged in therapy and undergone brain scans.

She says she spent time trying to understand what she did and why she did it and how she might

become a better person. I feel like I was really misunderstood. I was very loving and wanted to be loved, and I'm still very loving and want to be loved.

But I know what that means now in a healthy way.

And, you know, then I didn't understand what that, what healthy love looks like, and I do now. I feel, I don't know,

I'm stumbling over my words. The idea that Krista can and has changed, even as she sits in

solitary, is at the heart of the final efforts to save her life. But her decades of appeals

focused on the problems at her trial, what the jury heard, but more important, what they didn't

hear about her short life before her arrest. Her attorneys say that she is now someone loving

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