1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: My name is ye Joel Jason Hammer right over there 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: are teasing us in the previous segment about something you 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: have been working on. When we're talking about the Indiana 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: State House, some progress has been made a bill, possibly 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: with your name on it. 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 2: What is going on and what is the update? Well, 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: I don't want to over sell it. 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 3: It will not have my name on it, and it's 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 3: an amendment to a current bill. So currently House Bill 10 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 3: eleven nineteen. This is the bill that deals with executions 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 3: in the state of Indiana, the death penalty where if 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 3: the lethal cocktail mix as it's known as, is not available, 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 3: firing squad could become an option. 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: So that's the main part of this bill. Got it. 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 3: The thing that I've been working on is adding media 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 3: transparency to state functioned executions because I don't want to 17 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 3: have another Benjamin Richie situation. 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: Now. 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: Currently in the state of Indiana, media members are not 20 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 3: allowed to be in the room when an execution is performed. 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. 22 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 3: Now unless the family invites you, okay, for whatever reason. 23 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: If the family of whoever is getting ready to get 24 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 3: the lethal injection invites you, then you can go. 25 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: But what happened when that no good, rotten cop. 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 3: Killer from Beech Grove met his maker and it sounds 27 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 3: like everything went off without a hitch. 28 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: But his attorney went out and spoke to the press. 29 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 2: It was awful. I can't believe they were doing this 30 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 2: to him. 31 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 3: He was convulsing, he was just lying out of his 32 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 3: ass and I don't want that to happen anymore. So 33 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 3: I reached out to a couple different folks, Andrew Ireland 34 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 3: was one in the House, Sure, Senator Mike Young was 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: one in the Senate, and said, we need to have 36 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: media transparency to. 37 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: Where a reporter or reporters could. 38 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 3: Watch this and never again will we hear from some 39 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 3: no good, rotten scumbags attorney. We'll be able to have 40 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: it reported on by respected reporters. And I feel like 41 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 3: this is something both sides of the aisle can get with. 42 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 3: So if you're a leftist and you hate the death penalty, 43 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 3: you think it's immoral, whatever, you'll have somebody in there 44 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: that can say, listen, this is what happened. He did 45 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 3: not convulse, He did not jump out of the table. 46 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 3: Percy wet the sponge, you know, all that kind of stuff. 47 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: You could talk about it from a transparency standpoint, and 48 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 3: if you're somebody that's on the other side of the aisle, 49 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 3: somebody like me, you can talk about how somebody met 50 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 3: their maker. 51 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: His breath was shortened. This is what happened. His eyes 52 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: rolled back. He died. Let this be a lesson to 53 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: those that want to do this again. 54 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 3: We're going to report on the death. I feel like 55 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 3: everybody gets something out of this. So an amendment was 56 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 3: added to House Bill eleven nineteen yesterday that passed through 57 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 3: the Indiana House. 58 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: So this is good. 59 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 3: Now, it's not everything that I wanted. You got to 60 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 3: make some compromises, right. So the way that it's being 61 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 3: passed through right now, now, one pool reporter would be 62 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 3: able to witness an execution. 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: How would they decide who that reporter would be? 64 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: So that would be they would be the state execution 65 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 3: folks would get all the respected media members together, almost 66 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: like Delphi, where you know the certain few get to 67 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 3: sit in the courtroom. It'd be one pool reporter. It's 68 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 3: better than nothing, right, I'm picking my battles here. 69 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: Now. 70 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 3: That being said, there's no doubt in my mind when 71 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 3: this goes to the Senate, because they're led by such 72 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 3: tremendous butt sniffers like Rod Bray and his team of 73 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 3: little minions, all the WEP sitting down crew. They're going 74 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: to kill this when it gets to the Senate. Why 75 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: because again they're worthless. But in theory, this should be 76 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 3: a good thing for transparency. Whether you like the death 77 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 3: penalty or not, I think transparency is important. This is 78 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: something I've been working on with these guys for a 79 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: while now. 80 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: This bill HB eleven nineteen, that's not the Is that 81 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: the shooting squad. 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: Firing squading squad. 83 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 3: Yes, it's kind of an allencompassing bill, and one of 84 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 3: the amendments is the thing that I've been working on 85 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: media covering state issued executions. Now, if WIBC is ever 86 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 3: like selected to have our reporter there, I'm telling John 87 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: Herrick this right now, it better be me. Sit down, John, John, 88 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 3: you and I will throw hands if it's not me. 89 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: I want to see John Nett there. I don't want 90 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 3: to see Jake there. You may be bigger than I am, John, 91 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 3: but I'm a lot more surly and mean. I've been 92 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: in bar fights. You're picking me to cover that execution. 93 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 3: Let's make this perfectly clear right now. So again, it 94 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 3: may all be for not I have no doubt in 95 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 3: my mind the Senate will let people down because that's 96 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 3: what they do best.