tv [untitled] March 6, 2012 8:30am-9:00am EST
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how fast the hour and now here with our current hour and a day of calming miles after a night out election results reaction to tens of thousands rallying for and against with the police having to throw the book at some overzealous protester it's. a leading us politician calls for air strikes on syria as the international pressure intensifies we take a closer look at the political changes underway in the country. u.n. nuclear inspectors get the green line to visit
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a secret iranian military facility and club president obama on defense israel despite its threats to launch an attack on islam republic. and i will bring you more news in about a half an hour's time up next the second part of our special report on capital punishment in the united states and the effect it has on american society. they recruit we were you know. we sort we were. you know we go right. away.
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harder harder for her true. she sure she. it was the biggest. you know there's fresh my for me to. mom said i was following dad around like a puppy right. what you doing when you go in and then he would ask me if i wanted to go to the stores and i didn't notice i was doing this but he they said that when i would go through like go to the store with dad just get milk or something. i would walk up to the front door and just stand there. and because i still had developed a redeveloped a habit of reaching out open a door i spent the entire team i don't life walking up the doors and stopping and wait no somebody else open the door and i didn't realize i was still doing it he'd
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be like standing behind me like you know or not in that scene looking so i'd step out of the way and let him open the door until they called it to my attention i realized how stupid that was in are not stupid but just weird so i had to make a conscious effort to say ok i'm going to open the door today and be aware that i could do that i can open the door walk outside sit down walk in the grass with my bare feet and. look at the moonrise and all those things that. that we all take for granted you know being able to sit down with your mother and put your arm around her and break bread you know with your family and it's like i say that's a good example of walking barefoot in the grass i didn't see grass for. twenty three years something like this when he first got out it was rather a driveway and. one
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that had a side over here next door a nation for cop cars over there who he panicked he went around locked all the doors. so i. don't know i don't unlock the door he was scared that he would drive a car right in the side of oklahoma. because he's right there are plants. and getting you know person drugs that save lives. you know they were going over. here rather nebraska kansas or. here i don't like a levee over there in that sale for twenty years. robert mccain longtime death row inmate i met him when i first got there he was
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a good guy that made him an orderly they trusted him he. was a good guy he didn't give the inmates any trouble even give the staff any trouble until the day died until he was scheduled to be executed robert had. results not to let the state of oklahoma kill him so he purchased and stored enough narcotics to kill himself several times over. in defiance of. or despite the rules and procedures that are put in place to prevent such a thing on the afternoon of robert's execution he took enough drugs to killing self several times over when he was discovered the the agents for the state of oklahoma instead of letting that man die which was their objective that day is that he leave this earth he did it for them instead of allowing his death in this peaceful manner that he chose by drug overdose they rushed him to the hospital come to
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stomach gave him the drugs to counter act the narcotics took him back to prison in two hours later they executed him they strapped him to a table stuck a needle in his arm and took his life it is the most bizarre and frightening thing that happened to me when i was on death row and of all of the horrors that i had to witness for two decades it was the one thing that i can't let go of the fact that they saved a man's life at the last minute so that they could kill him. fee . back. through. me.
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the supreme court turned him down. a notch or. so. so. two hundred twenty second execution under rick perry therefore under. way sixty first execution in texas is about to take place. all over the state of texas and even that washington they see people like rochester just texas tech secure share. all our good god but god only was. all that was so why. bring our beloved nation of god of our god around like. a proper crackpot. congress
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about us. so. that. lethal injection was used in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight and one nine hundred thirty nine it was started by hitler's personal physician carl brandt ten thousand defect to the children were eliminated with lethal injections in the right in thirty eight and thirty nine the same mentality that they use then we use today we call it humane to make it easier on those who do the killing rather than on those who are killed
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zajac long be it was responsible for the deaths of millions of people in death chambers across poland and yet in twenty ten in the united states arizona and mississippi use zite be gas pellets to liquidate people in gas chambers nobody wants to be linked to the nazis we can all agree that was among the worst regimes that ever existed in humanity and it's easy to point the finger at the nazis and say how terrible they were but the historical and to scenes of the american death penalty today come in large part from the nazis who is coral branch no american knows hitler's personal physician but he gave us the idiology of using a needle to kill people in the name of the law because it was easier for those who
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didn't who put the needle in the arm this is america. if we're going to say how great lethal injection is then let's give credit to where credit is due and give credit to karl brandt and the nazis for coming up with that idea well i don't see that it's categorically more violent than forcibly dragging a person off to be locked in a cage forever. you know it's not the kind of thing that i think of when i think of the word violence i think of. far more bloody and painful punishments than than a procedure that is basically is similar to what is done for a medical procedure except that the person doesn't wake up. that that is what strikes me is it's is what the term violence refers to.
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a last visit with your family state of texas don't you get your last visit but it's still perplexing why we keep making jokes about getting real friendly with regards to me and my mother in law so we can just reach our hand through the window one time and just pop in a couple slapped across space to write him out you know they had a letter she had under my mother in law thinks she can convince them. mobile home. cabin. their. goal is to fit me up in business with
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a big story about this the first time tony made this piece. to hand. to life line. they literally took it away from him took down his entire sail. took the hand again everything he had with it. told him the hand was made for an escape attempt. that my son anyone would even think about misstatements him to be on it just wouldn't happen. so i don't work you think about it ok i feel like it's been concentrating. on native american stuff even the african man. my unicorn. pretty. to me that's what i want him working on but he laughs at me.
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everybody. tony shouldn't be there so he's got an excellent case to be able to get relief and be out there to be able to literally walk free from death row but always people that keep telling us i mean there were no we're not being shown anything nobody we're not one step closer now than we were fourteen years ago to actually seeing him walk out the door and because we deal with it every week when we go to visit whether we talk about it when we put our hands up. saying love you take care the chances are really very good. and now it's getting to the point where they've executed more and more of his friends most of the ones that i knew when i first
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started seeing him and i've met some of them at some of their handling gotten to know most of those have been executed already probably like two or three left that are still alive that i knew before and he was losing. to him are you the last of his friends and he says every time there's another execution things like he dies a little bit more and. i don't see the justice and i guarantee you that all of the people that say it brings closure i think they're going to be very disappointed i don't think it's going to bring any closure to anybody
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personally i can't understand why anybody would want to witness that. i won't be there i will not witnessed him killing my son. i'll be there in huntsville but i will be far away you'll know i'm there my heart. but it is he that either. his dad will go. and probably his cousin oh they'll be there to be supportive for him. so he'll know he's not alone. no matter what they did. are do i hate that i can't be there. yeah. he's my only son quickly.
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but i would not handle it better well. i've got to do it. to be sitting in a room with him laying there brats down in that gurney. knowing that it's last minute. and they're going to ask him if he's got any last words what's he supposed to say. he's told them all he didn't do it. but they don't want to believe anything and.
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we are sitting here and we can look back on an america that used to have slavery and shake our heads and disbelief that how could this country have slavery for two hundred forty six years and think it was ok but during that time those people thought it was ok it was a norm for them the way the death penalty is a norm for us so things change in society society grows it becomes better it just does it at a very slow and frustrating pace and that's what will happen in this country with
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