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United states to love 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 death in the Ohio State Court system. Every execution has been scheduled school and back to june 3rd of 2009 billy slater committed suicide 3 days before the execution perry minutes jr on october 25th was executed wrong phillips was next on nov 14th 2013. But its more. On the attorneys for an ohio inmate scheduled to die through an experimenter. 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 989. 00 rape and murder of pregnant woman joy stewart. The state is planning to inject him with a 2 drug mix thats 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 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 2 of us work. So now we sit and wait expecting a decision any time today. Its. Really. Hard its going to. Find you know as. Tonight. Right here. This is alan barnard from the federal public defender is office. Oh busy ive heard better days. You know say what are you going to buy today you know not that im aware of. 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. Exonerations 149. 00 people falsely convicted of crimes were freed in 2015 nearly 40 percent of those cases we charged and. Think. Its easy. 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 with you dream of it every day its not its not the same as actually going through it its. Just a serial was just. Its not something you can prepare yourself because youve been living in those conditions for so long. I think on the. 3. I mean. Damien tippett oh the man right there at 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 to my head every day for 15 years every day thats what i would think about. Now and. It is not. A problem for her over the falls over a. Profit center. That. They came. To take. And question. And after that. Will they. Be down the yemeni oldest daughter under the. Authority believe. The. Parent anguished cry this 14 year old daughter is dead brutally murdered if that reality isnt horrible enough the family now. 22 year old. They walked in made it sound like i just walked into this. Believes someone will never confessed to. The stairs to the street straight face tells them. Its time for each of you is going to be easy. To the state. On this average to see them all to the rear. That they. Are and you can. See we here are incomplete at the 1st cant. Compete. He said and just smile on and smiling like it aint nothing wed all slop because all the things you think when i see something. 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 2 months apart we was in court every week for months. Weve been to court so many times in the past few months i havent even had time to really green over my daughters 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 ive been doing this a long time i think my 1st Death Penalty case was 988 and none of those people ever been executed. Thats the unfortunate thing in our system that it takes too long. I dont think theres enough focus on victims family you know in terms of closure. At some point death family deserves closure. As the state of ohio prepare to use the new drug 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. Unsuccessfully challenge the 2 drug protocol in federal court this week. Hes going to start to obstruct right away looking for his head coming up. There may be vomiting hes not going to be trying to move hes going to try to clear the obstruction i mean seizures is one of the things thats been mentioned i dont remember if theres a strap across the head you should be able to see the muscles tense in that you know you release intensity releasing you know its more than one doctor who thinks its quite possible that he still could be alive that 5 or. Eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh eh. Oh. Please. Just slept. Very well continue watching us in such. Why paradise with a round into a round the experimentation field cultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major here theres no question otherwise why would the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments with often in you have many of these people one foot into the biotech and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible 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. Its a job that is very nice and its not very popular. And i know how many hours. When theres an execution its toxic i worry about him i support the important job that hes doing and i know he puts his whole heart and soul into it. I dont know that i want him in. Our lives. Because of the stress and the toll that it takes on him and. So i honestly if tomorrow it could be abolished that would be the best possible way because then he would have to choose to just be taken away. Not just in ohio but all over the country weve got states that are just kind of. I dont know where theyre experimenting on our clients the immediate focus is. You dont torture mike for it if youre 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 drivers license he had 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 the doctor knew and sheriff harry lee in that. First because he seemed to have an alibi he was helping Crystal Harris search for her when she turned up. He was with them when the Muslim Brotherhood she was in bed with was because he was. The one who ended up mandolins. I was looking for for 36 hours. And i just laid down to go to sleep and the detectives knocked on my door said they wanted to ask me some questions about crystal. At 1st i thought it was just a routine. Relationship like in the show 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. He. Used. To use all the technique its designed to elicit a confession but hes all in a way you need to. Know that oh. Theres a. Theyre allowed to manipulate you. And i was told i failed a polygraph my witnesses one for me he explained in detail how someones executed theres no proof when. You pick up. After having no sleep for 36 hours and getting drug in for a 9 hour interrogation like that its a nightmare the police chief with. These. Days when you break you youll tell them whatever they want here. And i would have told anything you want to tell. Us. If you ate. My. Height. Why wasnt a little stronger. Why couldnt i just keep telling them look i didnt do it i didnt do it i was their target and that was it you know they found easy target and they got it. You know nobodys ever apologized again. And nobodys ever recognize the wrong that was done. Is. Nobody knows unless youve been through it yourself trust me and Death Penalty case is a lot different than just a regular murder case im well ive learned that i mean its 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 states 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 karole. They flat out told us we would have one more Court Hearing it would be done over with when we walked out thats it. If they. Take his offer that he put on the table we wont 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 dont 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. Condemned to problematic hell our 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 principle which ohio has used and so now. Is the. Execution. This. Time was. Not. 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 to drug method of lethal injection he reportedly gas 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 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. I believe because its exactly what. I dont know what this means Going Forward maybe the governor is rightly appalled at what just happened and decides that hes going to start a reprieve. Or commuting sentences or you know i dont know. The only failure is you as a lawyer want to buy is a saw so you should perish the same way typical lawyer. Dont know how to not be pretty straight and close ally in an opinion but i can hear you and i want to get your own reaction and the results are in the experiment was a fail and i think were 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 than more than 18. Months know what cruel and unusual punishment is with 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 judgment youre going to people that are going to stay so long given the debt. It should be painless type of thing he said to go that way said 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 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 ive survived my 1st year done quite a bit im told. Trying to. Control things. Because everythings out of everything happens quickly. I spent 15 years locked in a cell for 23 hours a day in the what was once the bloody use prison in the country i 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 when. 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. Its still very much a dream to me at times. Id use. How many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society. 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