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before she died. i think about that every day where she reaches for the. you know when. joyleen struggle to take even a few steps towards her daughter's vigil she says the pain of shelby's loss is real i'm going to make sure if it takes the last breath in my body he needs to get that down and. we begin today shoulder to look at the chaos surrounding executions in the united states now that many of the drugs use relief the injections are no longer available the execution of 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
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absolutely indispensable part of our society. all of my clients have already been tried convicted and sentenced to death in ohio state court system . every execution has been scheduled schooling back to june 3rd of 2009. committing suicide 3 days before the execution very midst on september 25th was executed wrong phillips was next on nov 14th 2013. but it's more. of 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 suffolk. haitian before he dies and his mcquire is on death row for the 1989 rape
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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 execution. and we argue that dennis is going to essentially seal 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. it's. really. it is. hard it's going to. find you know
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this mood. tonight. right here i have here this is alan barnard from the federal budget center's office . oh i thought better days. you know say what are you going to buy today you know not that i'm aware of i 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.
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think. it's. good to see after spending 50 years against president jefferson parish mayor is free 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 14 year old cousin his attorneys are speaking right now in the 7th ward focused on what you dream about 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 now 3. i thank. damon tippett oh 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
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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. now and. i am able to call my own here on what the problem was born or ever the fault of our prophet better. come up next i'm writing this letter. she went to the store and i went and that. they came. to take him in. and questioned him. and after that.
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they walked into the corridor and made it sound like i just walked into this. room . believes someone will never confessed. but. i am. no longer. strangers to the street straight face tells them. it's time for each of you to listen to this even to the stage. i was privileged to see. the. very rare. that.
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a lot out of me when i see him 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 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 philosophy. 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. just enough focus on victim's family you know in terms of closure. at some
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point death family deserves closure don't. as the state of ohio prepare to use a new 2 drug method of lethal injection for the 1st time for dennis mcguire 6 accused and his attorneys argued this week that he would suffer from a condition known as air hunger mcguire's attorney unsuccessfully challenge the 2 drug protocol in federal court this week. he's going to start to obstruct right away look at bruce had come in. you know there may be vomiting he's not going to agree he's we trying to movies we try to clear the obstruction let me see yours is one of the things that's been true i don't remember if there's a strap across that. you should be able to see the muscles tense and you know you really see times you can really see you know it's more than one doctor who thinks it's quite possible that he still could be alive that 5 minutes for.
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a car. race. and gapping and the spread is widening and what i call apartheid if you're in the wrong side of the friends of jeffrey abstain you. bantustan of extortion ery credit card rights if you're a friend of jeffrey abstain then you get the insider rate of negative and you get paid money to borrow money. from the bank. seemed wrong. to me to be yet to shape our. disdain the conflict as
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a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok this other action it's really hard there are no jobs and you see the kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments and there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the teams most of the conflict i would say over balls around money. is made. close one on each of those email each other is good business the state of california alone makes 6000000000 dollars a year of the prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't
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care anymore now why cares about your so your care might anything. it's a job that is very thankless and it's not very popular and i and i know how many hours he's. 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.
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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. 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. 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 1st 5 or 6 weeks
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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 became absolutely convinced these innocents for about 4 hours of work on the case . that. if you read the autopsy report and you knew right away that what demon confessed to was completely. not a news conference this afternoon. because you mean to have an alibi it was helping chris search for her when she turned up friday night. when.
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she wasn't there. because. i was looking for for 36 hours. i just lay down and go to sleep. and they wanted to ask me questions about crystal. at 1st i thought it was just a routine. relationship and sell her. a one jefferson parish. news. indeed cliche use. it's designed to elicit a confession. all in a way to. oh. to
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manipulate you. i was told i failed my witnesses one for me he explained in detail. how someone's executed there's no perfect. pickle. after having no sleep for 36 hours and getting drug in for an interrogation like that it's a nightmare the police if you look at it these. days and when you break you you can eat you you'll tell them whatever they want here. and i would not have told anything you want to because i would. think. you.
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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. and through different appeals why put a family through the sufferer and have been 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
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and said that chains were. wanting to put offer on the table to where he would change a cli of not guilty to guilty for life in prison no eligibility of corowa. 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 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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condemned to problematic hell 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 or this new drug combination was originally designed as a backup for cancer which ohio has used and so now. this is not an. execution. this. time was. a.
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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 then 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 boy was kind of a rattling. there was. through his nose a couple times he definitely choking. at this point it is entirely premature to consider this execution protocol to be anything other than
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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. you know and believe that's exactly what. i don't know what this means going forward maybe the governor is rightly appalled at what just happened to sides and he's going to start a reprieve. or commuting sentences or you know i don't know. and the only failure is you as a lawyer want to buy his
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a saw so you should perish the same way typical lawyer scale. loto not be pretty straight and close ally in an opinion with channel one you're all reacting and 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 that was going to be terrifying and horrifying for him to experience. they need terror watching let it suffer less the more 19. know what cruel and unusual punishment is with this is nearly every choice 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 judgement you're going to people that are going to stay so long given the death. it should be
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painless type of thing he said there should go that way said to be tortured to death. did you ever actually consider getting to do this you have to. you have to come face to face with your own mortality. and for me it was. facing the fact that one day they may come to me lay me on the table stick a needle in my own. shut down my organs when i want. you know i've survived my 1st year done quite a bit i'm told. trying to. control 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 had visits from my family maybe 5 times in the 15 years out
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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 a week. you sit there in wait to die. after having only been out for just over a year sometimes feel like the mad hatter and wonder you know. it's still very much a dream to me at times. i'd use. 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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