1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Keeping it here in the state of Indiana, Indiana General 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Assembly gathering. This is what's known as the short session. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: It's not a budget session. So for all of you 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: wanting no tax on tips and you know, no tax 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: on overtime, bad news. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: Probably not going to happen here now. 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: It could happen if somebody wants to take the lead 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: on this, but we were told by the governor the 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: last time he joined us in studio that it's probably 10 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: going to be one of those deals that happens during 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: a budgeting session, which is not this one. But topics 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: happening right now include crime downtown and wait for it, 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: firing squads for executions. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: What let go? Oh man, you want to talk about volunteers. 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: I'll volunteer for that. No, you mean to tell me 16 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: I get to stand there and shoot a cop killer? 17 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: Where do I sign up? I'll do it for free. 18 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: I'll show absolutely I'd have no problem at all. 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: Oh, I feel like I'd be serving my country. I'd 20 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: be serving my state. 21 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 3: It's like you're going on, like you know how cops 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 3: do right alongs Yes, it's somewhat similar, except you get 23 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: the kill the human being. 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 2: Well, maybe I don't think you know who's got the 25 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: live round. 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 3: Because the way that it yeah, like four out of 27 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 3: the five guns. 28 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: Right now they're debating right now should it be five shooters, 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: should it be three shooters? 30 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: But hey man, I'm in I am one on this idea. Uh. 31 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: Senator Mike Young is behind this. It's State Bill eleven. 32 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: And it's not moving just two firing squads. It's using 33 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: the firing squad in addition to a lethal injection. Because 34 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: the lethal injection one it's super expensive. 35 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 2: Two it's hard. 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: To find the the cocktail as they and if there's 37 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: an appeal or a last minute's stay of execution, that 38 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: stuff expires quickly. Remember Holcombe bought a bunch of it 39 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: for some reason and had sat on the shelf and expired. 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: Just wasted money. 41 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: So this bill from State Senator Mike Young would make 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: it so whoever the victim soon to be victim would 43 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: be the deceased. You get to pick do you want 44 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: the lethal injection or do you want the firing squad. 45 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 3: Oh listen, if I was on the other end of 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 3: that stick, I'd be picking the injection. Just put me 47 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 3: to sleep and that's it. 48 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's as easy as that though, 49 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: Like from what I gather, the lethal injection is like 50 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: a slow suffocation. 51 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 3: But if you're in sleep, you don't know you're getting 52 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: suffocated right like they put me out. 53 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: If you suffocate before you go to sleep, I think 54 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: you too, if you came out right now and strangled 55 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: me to death before I went to sleep. 56 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd noticed that. I thought. 57 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 3: I thought the order was they put you out with 58 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 3: some strong sedatives and then they stick the poison in. 59 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: No, from what I gather, like you feel it. The 60 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: last couple of lethal injections. Now, I'm going by the 61 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: reports that we heard because no media are allowed to 62 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: cover these things, which is a different topic that I've 63 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: been trying to fix. But like Benjamin Ritchie, for example, 64 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: the cop killer in Beech Grove, he was like holding 65 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: on and convulsing like before he met his maker. But 66 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: if you could just shoot me and kill me quickly, 67 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: then let's do that. Like I would sign up for 68 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: the gunshot more so than I would. The slow suffocation 69 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: is the target and the heart or the head. Heart 70 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: gotta be the heart. But if you miss it, hit 71 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: him in the head, it's not the end of the world. 72 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: Like remember in the Green Mile. After they had that 73 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: painful execution where with the dry sponge, Percy didn't wet 74 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: the sponge. Somebody asked Tom Hanks afterwards, what the hell 75 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 1: was that? 76 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: That was the successful execution. The guy's not alive anymore. 77 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 3: It's just a little more painful. 78 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: Right, doesn't matter if you hit him in the head 79 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: or the chest. That's a successful execution. 80 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: Now. 81 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: The other bill that Senator Mike Young is putting forth 82 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: at the Indiana State House is State Built one forty 83 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: five Senate Bill one forty five. It calls for a 84 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: special area downtown to be basically called a mile square, 85 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: where it would be governed by a special prosecutor and 86 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: not patrolled by the IMPD. Interesting now, the concept behind 87 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: this is Ryan Mears and the judges in Marion County 88 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: stink so bad at prosecuting bad guys in our popular 89 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: tourist areas. 90 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 2: What if we took our. 91 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: Already short staffed IMPD, spread them out throughout the rest 92 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: of Indianapolis, and we brought in a special prosecutor and 93 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: special police officer security to patrol this mile square. 94 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 3: I appreciate Senator Young's efforts, but does this have any 95 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 3: chance of passing through or even moving. 96 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: Probably not. Probably not. 97 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: I can't see this one getting the support because it's 98 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: weak Republicans. 99 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 2: In theory, it's a good idea. 100 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: You have to protect your popular areas, your tourist areas. 101 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: You can't be having shootouts on Meridian Street outside of 102 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: the bar district. You can't be having Big Braake, Yeah, 103 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: outside of Steak and Shake and the Hooters on Georgia Street, 104 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: you can't be having that. 105 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 3: My family lives downtown. My dad lives a block away 106 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: from where all those shootings that we just mentioned, Hampton 107 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: In I think had one. 108 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,679 Speaker 2: That's literally that's where the Dutch soldier was shot and killed. 109 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: Unfortunately. 110 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: Yes, Now, per this plan, the cost of providing the 111 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: police services would be deducted from state revenue that is 112 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,239 Speaker 1: normally distributed to Indianapolis, so it wouldn't cost anything extra, 113 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: but some programs would probably be defunded. 114 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 2: But that's to create the mile square area.