tv Documentary RT February 26, 2019 12:30am-1:00am EST
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we're learning new details about the killing of a metro p.c.s. employee who 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 farrow. you still don't know if. she's in the news right here in the chair in the wrist in the thigh with a forty caliber glock and every bullet exiting. the video shows her standing and then she collapsed to her knees she was reaching for the. she fought for over twenty minutes before she died.
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i think about that every day where she reaches for the. struggle to take even 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 the last breath that he needs to get the death penalty. we begin today's 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 today. i think the job of defending. the most on. popular amongst our society is absolutely
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indispensable part of our society. all of my clients have already been tried convicted and sentenced to death in ohio state court system. basically every execution has been scheduled 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. and. that is where. 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 which will cause him to feel the pain of suffocation before he dies and his mcquire is on death row for the nine hundred
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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 an execution before. we presented our case to the judge to stop the execution. and we argue that dennis is going to essentially feel to be consciously aware of feeling like he is going to suffocate like he is suffocating because he is suffocating because of the way the drugs work . so now we sit and wait expecting a decision any time today. or use the really. hard it's going to. find you know as.
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right here right here this is alan bernard from the federal public defender is office. is. saying what are you going to buy today. you know that i'm aware of. everything else. for the second year in a row 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 freed in twenty fifteen nearly forty percent of those cases were charged as. a thing. just. to see after spending fifteen years against president jefferson
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parish mayor and these three d.n.a. evidence exonerated david tippett oh who is on death row at angola serving 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 you are now free. i. mean. damien to video 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 rather twenty three. if i had just gone off
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i used to be one of those people who believed that someone would never confess to something they did do. and society as a whole believes that. but you didn't. go over. the street to just shoot straight face tells. us it's time for each of you to listen to he's going to the stage. on this i'm sure to see them being able to refer. to.
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our. team when here are in full twenty feet. from can. see you sit there and just smugly smile and lie it ain't nothing we've all seen it all all since you think we'll see. 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 two months apart we was in court every week for mine. 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 family go 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 a 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 the victim's family you know in terms of closure. at some point death family deserves closure don't they. as the state of ohio prepared to use. lethal injection for the first time for dennis mcguire six accused in his attorneys
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argued this week that he would suffer from a condition known as air hunger. attorney unsuccessfully challenge the two drug protocol in federal court this week. 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. calm.
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it's a job that is very thankless and it's not very popular. and i know how many hours he spends to not be very popular. 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 it's. 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 if tomorrow it could be. that would be the best thing possible 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. somebody sure. 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
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no idea other than the one from death row. group of people. i became absolutely convinced seems innocence down for about four hours of work on the case. if you read the autopsy report and you knew right away that what damon confessed to was completely false. not a news conference that the afternoon sheriff harry lee said to but oh wasn't a suspect at first because he seemed to have an alibi he was helping crystal harris search for her when she turned up nothing. he was with them when. she wasn't there it was all because she was if you look look at me when we would do in the us.
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i was looking for for thirty six hours. i just lay down and go to sleep and just actors knocked on my door said they wanted to ask me questions about crystal. at first i thought it was just a routine. relationship like a show or. when jefferson parish deputies made the discovery and it turned out the man they would accuse of already being questioned by detectives were all there in the. news. indeed clichy use all the technique it's designed to elicit a confession he ball in a way to aid. in that oh. there they go. they're allowed to manipulate you.
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i was told i failed a polygraph my witnesses one for me he explained in detail how someone is executed there's no proof. after having no sleep for thirty six hours and me getting drug in for a nine hour interrogation like that it's a nightmare the police. will look at these. and when you break you you'll tell them whatever they want here. i would not have told anything they want to because there were. six he's. a. creep. why. 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 dressed. and nobody's ever recognize the wrong that was done to. them through it yourself trust me and death penalty case is a lot different than just a regular murder case i have i'm well i've learned that i mean it's year after year after year 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. sarah 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 change. was wanting to put all four on the table to where he would change a plea of not guilty to guilty for life in prison no eligibility of course. 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 put on the
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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 a crime he committed the murder he needs to suffer the consequences but i don't feel like killing him is just 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. and can damage a problematic shell or has just hours left to lead the execution is 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 us that 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 good. there was. 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. as an experiment by 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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simply not only believe because it's exactly what. i don't know what this means going forward maybe the governor is rightly appalled at what just happened decides and he's going to start a reprieve. or 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. loto know people pretty straight and blows their own in an opinion when i can and i don't want to get all reaction and 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 my date's over them or nineteen the. know what cruel and unusual punishment is when this is. nearly every joy sister says she knows her sister suffered terror in pain and 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 judgement you're going to people that are going to stay so long given the debt. it should be painless. you shouldn't have to go that way she had to be tortured to death. did you ever actually consider it to do you have to. you have to come face to face with your own mortality. and for me it was. facing
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the fact that one day they come to lay me on that table stick and you'll. shut down my organs one by one. you know are survived my first year done quite a bit i'm told trying to. lose control of things i guess. because 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 us prison in the country i had visits from my family maybe five times in the fifteen years i was 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 the 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. realise that. this is not working and we actually do something about it thank you. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development that only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.
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