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metro p.c.s. employee was murdered on the job saturday evening police say they have caught the man who did it the sheriff's office says he goes by the nickname. twenty one year old james rhodes is charged with the murder of twenty year old shelby farah. still don't know if that means she's in the. right here in the chair in the wrist in the thigh with a forty caliber glock and every bullet exiting. there shows her standing then she collapsed to her knees she was reaching for the. she fought for. twenty minutes before she died. i think about that every day where she reaches for the. joy struggle to take even
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a few steps towards her daughter's vigil she says tonight the pain of shelby's loss is real i'm going to make sure if it takes her last breath that he needs to get the death penalty. we begin today show with a look at the chaos surrounding executions in the united states now that many of the drugs use release the injections are no longer available the execution drugs scarcity stems from the receipt of manufacturers in europe and united states to live to be used to people to death. i think the job of defending. the most unpopular amongst our society is absolutely indispensable part of our society. all of my clients have already been tried convicted and sentenced to. state court system.
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basically every execution has been scheduled is going back to june third of two thousand and nine really slagle he ended up committing suicide three days before the execution very midst on september twenty fifth was executed wrong phillips was next on nov fourteenth two thousand and thirteen he was. but his mother. all the attorneys for an ohio inmate scheduled to die through an experimental execution method say their client will suffer a terrifying and agonizing death according to his lawyers the untested injection method it will not properly statement wire which will cause him to feel the pain of suffocation before he dies and his mcquire is on death row for the one nine hundred eighty nine rape and murder of pregnant woman joy stewart. the state is planning to inject him with a two drug mix that's never been used in the next occasion before. we presented our
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case to the judge to stop the execution. and we argue that dennis is going to essentially feel well be consciously aware of feeling like he is going to suffocate like he is suffocating because he is suffocating because of the way the two arms were. so now we sit and wait expecting a decision any time today. is. really. hurts going to. find you know as we. know it right here. this is alan barnard from the federal public defender the office. oh it is.
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not that i'm aware of. for the second a record number of people convicted of crimes have been exonerated in the united states according to a new report by the national registry of exonerations one hundred forty nine people falsely convicted of crimes were treated twenty fifteen nearly forty percent of those cases were charged. thing. it's just. after spending fifteen years against president jefferson parish mayor is free d.n.a. evidence exonerated david who is on death row at angola serving
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a sentence for the rape and murder of his fourteen year old cousin his attorneys are speaking right now in the seventh ward. you dream of it every day but it's not it's not the same as actually going through it it's. just a serial walk this. is not something you can prepare yourself because you've been living in those conditions for so long. i think. damon tippett oh the man right there in the center of your screen free today he spent twenty three hours a day in solitary confinement during his fifteen years at angola now thirty eight years old he went to jail when he was twenty three. if i had just gone off and done something else. running through my head.
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every day for fifteen years every day that's what i think about. eleanor i. actually make it. a point ever on the floor over. your. head come up yes i'm. a muslim. she went to the store and now when. they came they meant to take him in. and after that. they.
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beat down the oldest daughter under the. authority believe. the. parent anguished cry his fourteen year old daughter is dead brutally murdered if that reality isn't horrible enough the family. twenty two year old. they walked in made it sound like i just walked into this.
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believes someone will never confessed to. the stairs to the street straight face tells them. it's time for each of you is going to listen to this he's a. to the state. on this average to see them all to the rear. of. the.
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car and you can. see we here are incomplete at sea for. one can. see he said and just minding smiling like it ain't nothing we'd all slop because all things would be thinking see these things. it takes a lot out of me when i see him you saw what happened today. and before the court hearings was a month apart or too much apart we was in court every week for months. we've been
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to court so many times in the past few months i haven't even had time to really green over my daughter's death. and. you know that too same league goes through a terrible ordeal and most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty. there are some people that because of what they did have given up the right to live among us and that is our florals the. you know i've been doing this long time i think my first death penalty case was nine hundred eighty eight and none of those people ever been executed. that's the unfortunate thing in our system that it takes too long. i don't think there's enough focus on victim's family you know in terms of closure. at some point death family deserves closure don't. as the state of ohio prepare to use a new two truck method of lethal injection for the first time for dennis mcguire
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six accused and his attorneys argued this week that he would suffer from a condition known as air hunger mcguire's attorney unsuccessfully challenge the two drug protocol in federal court this week. what. he's going to start to obstruct right away looking for his head coming up. there may be vomiting he's not going to agree he's we trying to move he's going to try to clear the obstruction let me see yours is one of the things that i don't remember if there's a strap across the head you should be able to see the muscles tense in that you know you release intensity releasing you know it's more than one doctor who thinks it's quite possible that he still could be alive that five minutes for.
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my thought it would be this that i will accept the idea of course this would be or should he would be out by listening to. six to seven with those about as it's got to go or we are going to be slipping i underline the snipping and go once they feel it i underline which means that we would be living in a difficult one this did situation and therefore is lighter with a fine good set of knives out of your wish as they claim you know to get woken up because they're clear. i didn't think the. numbers mean something they've mattered the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent employment market thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per
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second per second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember in one one business show you know board the mid one and only boom box. shows same wrong but all rolls just don't all. get to shape out these days to come to educate and gain from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.
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it's a job that is very thankless and it's not very popular and i and i know how many hours he said to not be very popular i. when there's an execution it's toxic i worry about him i support the important job that he's doing and i know he puts his whole heart and soul into it and. i don't know that i want him in it for the rest of our lives. because of the stress of the toll that it takes on him and us. so i honestly i if tomorrow it could be abolished in ohio that would be the best thing possible because then he would have to choose it would just be taken away.
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not just in ohio but all over the country we've got states that are just kind of. i don't know where they're experimenting on our clients the media focus is. you don't torture mike for it if you're going to kill him. it's hard to make sure that when damon came out he spent the first five or six weeks living with my wife and me in minneapolis and went to work doing mail delivery in our office. we helped him deal with getting back on the grid he had no driver's license he had no idea other than the one from death row. group of people. i
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became absolutely convinced dean's innocence four hours of work on the case. that if you read the autopsy report you knew right away that what damon confessed to was completely. different this afternoon. because he seemed to have an alibi he was helping crystal search for her when she turned up friday night. and she wasn't there. because. i was looking for for thirty six hours. i just lay down and go to sleep. and they wanted to ask me questions about crystal. at first i thought it was just
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a routine. relationship and sell her. a one jefferson parish deputies maybe. they would accuse of already being questioned by detectives. and. you. use. the technique it's designed to elicit a confession. all in a way. that oh. you were there. to manipulate you. i was told i failed my witnesses one for me he explained in detail. how someone's executed there's no perfect. people.
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after having no sleep for thirty six hours and getting drug in for an interrogation like that it's a nightmare the police if you will look there is. a time when you break you you can eat you you'll tell them whatever they want here. and i would not have told anything they want to tell. you. why.
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why wasn't a little stronger. why couldn't i just keep telling them look i didn't do it i didn't do it i was their target and that was it you know they found easy target and they got it. you know nobody's ever apologized. and nobody's ever recognize the wrong that was done you know. nobody knows unless you've been through it yourself trust me a death penalty case is a lot different than just a regular murder case. that i mean it's year after year after year. we're going through different appeals why put
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a family through the suffering of having to have to relive that for the next twenty years or fifty years old twenty years from now or be seven am i not even be alive i might not even be alive to see justice served for my daughter. sara says washee appreciates the state's hard work in going for the worst possible punishment she just wants everything to be over. after a court hearing in february the prosecutor and the defense attorney walked up to us and said that chains were. wanting to put all four on the table to where he would change a cli of not guilty to guilty for life in prison no eligibility of karole. they flat out told us we would have one more court hearing it would be done over with when we walked out that's it. if they take his offer that he
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put on the table we won't have to go through all the appeals he would spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. i mean i want justice served he committed the crime he committed the murder he needs to suffer the consequences but i don't feel like killing him is that's not going to bring my daughter back. i just want them to take the offer. so we can try to move on with our life. condemned to problem county jail or has just hours left to live the execute. making national headlines not wire will be put to death by
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a combination of drugs and never before used in the us for this purpose or this new drug combination was originally designed as a backup for cancer which ohio has used and so now a doctor. tells his son the. execution. this. time was. a. convicted killer dennis mcguire spent the final moments of his life gasping for breath as the state of ohio for the first time used an untried two drug method of
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lethal injection he reportedly gas then snorted during the twenty six minutes it took the drugs to kill them. it was the longest execution by lethal injection and u.s. history. long time witnesses to executions were stunned the boy was kind of a rattling. there was. through his no a couple times he definitely choking. at this point it is entirely premature to consider this execution protocol to be anything other than a failed. experiment but the state of ohio the people of the state of ohio should be appalled and what was done here today in their name.
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you know i believe that's exactly what. i don't know what this means going forward maybe the governor is rightly appalled at what just happened just so it's a nice going to start a reprieve. for commuting sentences or you know i don't know. the only failure is you as a lawyer want to buy his a saw so you should perish the same way typical lawyer skill. loto know people pretty straight and blows their own opinion when i can you cannot point to your own reaction the results are in the experiment was a fail and i think we're talking about exactly what we argued dennis mcguire was
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going to suffocate to death and that that was going to be terrifying and horrifying for him to experience. they need terror of watching let it suffer less than more than eighteen. know what cruel and unusual punishment is with this is clearly a very joy sister says she knows her sister suffered terror in pain when she was raped sodomized choked and killed by dennis mcguire she says he was treated more humanely today than her sister was treated and it was time for him to face his judgment you're going to people that are in the states will be put to death it should be famous. you shouldn't have to go that way should it be tortured to death . or did you ever actually consider it to do to you have to. you have to come face to face with your own mortality. for me it was. facing the fact that one day they come to me lately and it will
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stick and you'll. shut down my organs one by one. you know our survived my first year quite a bit i'm told trying to. lose control of things. is everything's happened everything happens quickly. i spent fifteen years locked in a cell for twenty three hours a day in the what was once the bloody use prison in the country i had visits from my family maybe five times in the fifteen years out there every day i would do the same thing it was the same monotonous thing wake up make coffee my bubble prepare for the day same thing saw sunshine three hours when. you sit there in wait to die. after having only been out for just over
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a year sometimes feel like a mad hatter and wonder you know. it's still very much a dream to me at times. i use. on many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society. realize that. this is not working and we actually do something about it thank you. syria when a pullout well doesn't mean a pull out also venezuela how's that regime change going and the botched story you know news breaks it and much much more on this edition of crossfire.
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another round of clashes takes place at colombia border between opposition supporters and police no victims are reported as of yet. the lima group of countries has sent a request to the international criminal court to look at the manager and situation in venezuela that comes as the u.s. vice president pledges an additional fifty six million dollars to support the opposition. iran's foreign minister mohammad. announces his resignation he made the statement on social media on monday the reason for the resignation
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remains unclear so far.

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