tv Documentary RT August 17, 2019 8:30pm-9:01pm EDT
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israel i'm going to make sure if it takes the last breath that he needs to get that . we begin today shoulder to look at the chaos surrounding executions in the united states now that many of the drugs used for lethal injections are no longer available the execution of drugs scarcity stems from the receipt of manufacturers in europe and united states to look to be the people to do. 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 death in ohio state court system . basically every execution has been scheduled scaling back to
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june 3rd of 2009. committing suicide 3 days before the execution very midst on 25th was executed wrong phillips was next on nov 14th 2013. and. that is where. all the attorneys for an ohio inmate scheduled to die through an experimental execution method. 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 1989 rape and murder of pregnant woman joy stewart. the state is planning to inject him with a 2 drug mix that's never been used in the next occasion before. we presented our case to the judge to stop the act. we argue that dennis is going
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to essentially seal and be consciously aware of feeling like he is going to suffocate like he is suffocating because he is suffocating because of the way the 2 of us work. so now we sit and wait expecting a decision any time today. or use the relief. it is. going to. find you know as. tonight. right here. this is alan barnard from the federal budget centers office. oh busy it is. you say what are you going to buy today you know not that i'm aware of i
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did. everything. for the 2nd 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 149 people falsely convicted of crimes were free to 2015 nearly 40 percent of those cases were charged as. a thing. just. after spending 50 years in fraser the jefferson parish made these 3 d.n.a. evidence exonerated david to have it all who is on death row at angola serving a sentence for the rape and murder of his 14 year old. was that his attorneys are
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speaking right now in the 7th ward will. you dream of it every day 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 are now free i. damon to video the man right there in the center of your screen free today he spent 23 hours a day in solitary confinement during his 15 years at angola now 38 years old he went to jail when he was rather 23. if i had just gone off and done something else. like that running turn my head every day for 15 years every day that's what i would think about.
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eleanor. i mean to call my own here on what the problem was on her at the fall of a. store had come up yes i'm. a muslim. she went to the store and i went and that. they came. to take him in. and questioned him. and after that. and then i came home. through every. day you know. debbie down the i'm the oldest daughter under you we put you on bridge last night.
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doherty believe. there. was. a parent anguished cry his 14 year old daughter even dead brutally murdered if that reality isn't horrible enough the family must now cope with the fact that a relative to blame 22 year old. african to the cry. they walked into the corridor and made it sound like i just walked into this interrogation room. i used to be one of those people who believed that someone would never confess to something they didn't do. and society as
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ah. ok. here. he said then just. smile and lie it ain't nothing going all slop because all it's really thinking i see something. it takes a lot out of me when i see you saw what happened today. and before the court hearings was a month apart or 2 months apart we was in court every week for months. we've been to court so many times in the past few months i haven't even had time to really
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green over my daughter's death. and. you know that to say i'm only 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 flaws. you know i've been doing this a long time i think my 1st death penalty case was 988 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. ask the state of ohio prepare to use drug method of lethal injection for the 1st time for dennis mcguire 6 accused in his attorneys argued. sweet that he would
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suffer from a condition known as air hunger mcguire's attorney unsuccessfully challenge the 2 drug protocol in federal court this week. one of the freebies he's going to start to obstruct right away looking for his head coming up. you know there may be vomit in he's not going to agree this we try to movies we try to clear the obstruction let me see yours is one of the things that's been mentioned 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 5 minutes for. a time.
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seemed wrong. to me but yet to shape out this day become agitated and engage with. the trail. when some find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. 0 why a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field for agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion. it is reprehensible
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while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. to make this manufactured consensus instead of public wealth. when the right wing closest reject them so. when the final larry go around. making the middle of the room sick. for the. real world.
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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's. 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. i don't know that i want him in a rest of our lives. because of the stress of the toll that it takes on him and. so i honestly i if tomorrow it could be abolished in ohio that would be the best they could possibly because then he would have. to choose to 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 immediate focus is. that if you're going to. make sure that when damon came out he spent the 1st 5 or 6 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 for about 4 hours of work on the case . if you read the autopsy report and you knew right away that what damon has confessed to was completely false. not a news conference this afternoon. to have an alibi he was helping crystal harris search for her when she turned up. when the mother she was in bed with it was because. he would do it in a band when. i was looking for for 36 hours.
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i just laid down to go to sleep and to just try to knock on my door said they wanted to ask me some questions about crystal. at 1st i thought it was just a routine thing. from your relationship like a shell or. when jefferson parish deputies made the discovery and it turned out the man they would accuse of already been questioned by detectives were all there in the. news. indeed clichy use all of that read technique it's designed to elicit a confession and he will in any way to aid. in that oh. there's a whole. they're allowed to manipulate you. i
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was told i failed a polygraph my witnesses one for me he explained in detail how someone's executed there's no proof when one. can pick up. after having no sleep for 36 hours and getting drug in for a 9 hour interrogation like that it's a nightmare the police chief with. these. days when you break you you'll tell them whatever they want here. and i would have told me anything you want to because you know or. us. if you a. clue .
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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 an easy target and they got it. you know nobody's ever apologized. and nobody's ever recognize the wrong it was done. nobody knows unless you've been through it yourself trust me and death penalty case is a lot different than just
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a regular murder case i'm well i've learned that i mean it's year after year after year going through different appeals why put a family through the suffering of having to have to relive that for the next 20 years or 50 years old 20 years from now or be 7 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 4 on the table to where he would change a plea of not guilty to guilty for life in prison. no eligibility of
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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. if they take his offer that he 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.
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and condemned to probably county jail or has just hours left to live the execution is making national headlines not wire will be put to death by a combination of drugs and never before used in the us for this purpose well this new drug combination was originally designed as a back up for principle which ohio has used and so now a doctor. is a. security. risk.
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convicted killer dennis mcguire spent the final moments of his life gasping for breath as the state of ohio for the 1st time used an untried 2 drug method of lethal injection he reportedly gas and snorted during the 26 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 chaos the boy who's kind of a rattling. there was almost kind of a snorting through his know a couple times he definitely choking. at this point it is entirely premature to consider this an execution protocol to be anything other than a failed you know 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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the. suit you know i don't believe that's exactly what. i don't know what this means going forward maybe the governor is rightly appalled at what just happened decides that he's 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 aside so you should perish the same way typical lawyer. loto not be pretty great. blows alan thank you very much and i
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want to get your own reaction to the results are in the experiment was a fail and i think we're talking about exactly what we argued dennis mcguire was going to suffocate to death and that was going to be terrifying and horrifying for him to experience. the need terror watching what it's over was that more than 18. know what cruel and unusual punishment is with this. carol avery joyce 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 that her sister was treated and it was time for him to face his judgment you're going to people that are going to stay so long be put to death it should be painless type of thing 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
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to come face to face with your own mortality. for me it was. face in the fact that one day they may come to lay me on the table stick a needle mine on. shut down my organs one by one. you know are surviving my 1st year done quite a bit i'm told trying to not lose control of things i guess. because everything's happened everything happens quickly. i spent 15 years locked in a cell for 23 hours a day in the what was once the bloody u.s. prison in the country i've had visits from my family maybe 5 times in the 15 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 3 hours
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when. you sit there in wait to die. after having only been out for just over a year sometimes feel like the mad hatter in wonderland you know. it's still very much a dream to me at times. i guess. how 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.
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1st words were at a low a c. or a challenging post you've got 2 years to live. i have no doubt that what happened was scriven. that's causing trademark it is a $1000000000.00 industry these companies have a huge financial motivations the saudis products there are numerous stocks showing that doctors were keen to test factory concentrates for insights of its own that patients won't give them doctors the wrong stoplight. turn to stone why they would give me consecutive doses day to day and people still die i don't know which question or so i tried being hard to leave when so many have.
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