the public they were not letting this guy off easy. i think they made the right decision. they saved the government a great deal of money. this will be resolved much cheaper, faster. they saved the victims the experience of having to testify but had to persuade the public that there was a life-time sanction here. so they used the figure of a those years, obviously that is not meaningful but don t you think, jeff, that fits in, don t you think that fits into what we talked about before and the death penalty machinery and how it affected the criminal justice system, this is what ends up happening. in order to try and put on no, if you didn t have the death penalty he would have got life without anyway. what difference does it make? and why do you have to put this guy out there and broadcast this live for whatever period of time and have his words being published and have prosecutors who may normally be racial
evidence again, to bring them up to speed, she s going to get up there and i think you re going to see another lengthy, lengthy performance, which just harkens back to what i said before. this is why the death penalty machinery is broken in america. this points out this is a great lesson in exactly how absurd the death penalty is. jose baez, who obviously defended casey anthony, is now joining me also by phone. jose, she gave interviews right after she was found guilty. she said she wanted to die, then she changed her mind or at least publicly seemed to change her mind. did it surprise you that she keeps giving interviews and do you think that had an impact on the jury? i certainly hope it didn t have an impact on the jury, because they should have been following their instructions and not watching any coverage on the case, including her interviews. now, having said all of that, i think all of this is much ado about nothing. the smartest thing for this
played? the people the penalty phase people say are you okay with the death penalty and maybe you say you are, then maybe when you actually have to make the decision you realize you aren t. one of the reasons that i didn t think she would get death and i said this early on when the jurors started asking questions, the fact that she was being first named in the jury questions, jodi this, jodi that, even though they were sharp, pro-prosecutorial questions, when you re first naming a defendant, it s much tougher, at least it indicates to me it s much tougher to put that person to death. i think she didn t help herself with the interview where she said she wanted death, because i think then you ve got a problem where jurors are saying why am i going to fight for her, she doesn t want to live, but then she got on the stand and i think she connected and that s all she s got to do. i think this highlights to me why the death penalty machinery is broken in this country. there s a
they ve got a duty, they were court appointed, i understand it, and they have to do that, but this is really one of the nettlesome problems with the death penalty machinery in this country. it really is broken. and also, the judge had no choice but to decline to allow them to you can t let a lawyer after a multi-month trial leave with two or three days left to go. so the judge had no choice but to keep them. thank you. coming up, you may have seen the viral video of a homeless hitchhiker who told a colorful tale of helping a woman who had been hit by a car. police are looking for him as a murder suspect. also ahead, terrifying moments after a stroller carrying a little girl rolls off a train station platform on to the tracks. the daring rescue coming up. rol as part of a heart healthy diet. that s true. .but you still have to go to the gym. the one and only, cheerios
don t really want death, come on, admit it, you really want life without parole and this is reverse psychology? that s so much gamesmanship at that point and as jeff said with this kind of weird, bizarre reverse psychology, i mean, i don t blame the lawyers at this point for almost throwing up their hands. they ve got a duty, they were court appointed, i understand it, and they have to do that, but this is really one of the nettlesome problems with the death penalty machinery in this country. it really is broken. and also, the judge had no choice but to decline to allow them to you can t let a lawyer after a multi-month trial leave with two or three days left to go. so the judge had no choice but to keep them. thank you. coming up, you may have seen the viral video of a homeless hitchhiker who told a colorful tale of helping a woman who had been hit by a car. police are looking for him as a murder suspect. also ahead, terrifying moments after a stroller carrying a little girl