it. but a jur: y of his peers disagreed. alex murdaugh found guilty of murdering hi s son paul and wifes maggie and sentenced to life in prison. it s, magg a stunning fall for the disgraced attorney whose family not only practice disgrdw in a tiny south carolinain town for a century, they were the lasouth caw. that is at, until alex went fro lawyer to defended the judgefr, tearing down that dynasty.g down your family that , including you,, in have been prosecutinclg people here in this courtroom and many have received the death penalty probab probably for lesser conduclyt. and the question is , when will it end? wh when will it end?en end and it is ended already for the jury because they ve concluded that you continueat yu to lie and lie throughou ct your testimony. ughout judge also had this chilling warning for your testi the convicted murderer. i know you have to see paul and maggie durin see the night times when you re attempting to go to sleep. during i m sure they
pe don t know about the death penalty question for this. but i i think the point of this beingw a show is really relevant and the fact tha it the netflixw show came out last week, which a definitely as it was being televised, really hyped upon the attention to it. it was the number one show there. and i think that s wherei th people, to your point, greg, really got a feel fo gr how terrible all these people were. so, papau, yeah. who killed mallory? young girl on the boat, his his best friend s girlfriend who went flying off as he crashed. he drunkenly crashed that boat. and then i thought the most powerful part of the netflix ofh special, this relevant to thee story is the manipulation ofy every generation of this familyf in the hospital. so the grandfatheram the hosp there, alec and the son all playing defensee ,going around to differentaround hospital rooms, manipulating children t and their parentsg saying we re 1% you, we ve got your best interests at heart and trying to pin it
death penalty question. congressman frank, what is your view of that? well, i am opposed to the death penalty and have been. but i want to differentiate. i have never joined in the kind of sympathy for people who were facing the death penalty. to be honest, this is a terrible human being and he clearly, one of the important things here is not simply that there s accountability, but this terrible person is never going to be in the position to hurt another person, whether he s killed or in prison for life. that s a very important thing to accomplish. i the not favor the death penalty, not because of sympathy for him. i disagree with those who say it s brutalizing to execute people. i just don t think, and we ve seen cases where there was error, so you can t say i m against the death penalty in general, but this one is so bad i m going to do it. the other thing, we re not debating the death penalty versus nothing.
hurt. and yet boston presented this trial as a model. you could argue about the death penalty or not, but he got a fair trial. he had a suburb set of lawyers who presented the best defense, good prosecutors, good jurors. and they came to a just verdict. you don t need military tribunals that aren t really courts to bring about justice in america. let s get to what is going to be the next phase, which is the death penalty question. congressman frank, what is your view of that? well, i am opposed to the death penalty and have been. but i want to differentiate. i have never joined in the kind of sympathy for people who were facing the death penalty. to be honest this is a terrible human being and he clearly, one of the important things here is not simply that there s accountability, but this terrible person is never going to be in the position to hurt another person whether he s killed or in prison for life.
second-degree murder. do i not think they are going to get death penalty. jamie: it s very rare eye am not sure i was aware of all the states that allow the jury to ask their own questions through the judge after both sides have presented their case. and the questions seemed to have a theme why did you lie? why did you lie about that? what was your impression with the answers the jury got on that? i thought that you know, they were very couched and coached. the only three states that allow the jurors to ask questions. i like t. did it slow up the process? absolutely. getting back to the death penalty question. only 1.93% of the people on death row are women. you have a woman who has been in front of this jury for a very, very long time. the chances are that she is probably not going to get the death penalty. jamie: we are on the case. ed the verdict could come as