WEBVTT - The Christa Pike Execution Bleep Up 0:00:00.030 --> 0:00:06.790 Good morning, Cooner country. Okay, my friends, honestly, I don't 0:00:06.850 --> 0:00:09.809 know whether to laugh or to cry, so I'd rather 0:00:09.850 --> 0:00:14.940 laugh than cry. But in a sense, it's really not 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:20.360 a laughing matter. But on the other hand, it was 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:26.530 such a botched execution that And with so many pathetic 0:00:26.950 --> 0:00:31.040 errors along the way, you almost can't help but laugh 0:00:31.180 --> 0:00:35.339 at the incompetence. So, as most of you probably know, 0:00:35.900 --> 0:00:41.420 this is, forget national, this is an international story. Krista 0:00:41.490 --> 0:00:48.810 Pike was scheduled Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee, to be 0:00:49.010 --> 0:00:54.810 executed by lethal injection. And one of the reasons why 0:00:54.910 --> 0:00:59.710 this was such a high-profile case was she was scheduled 0:00:59.770 --> 0:01:03.910 to be the first woman, the first female, to be 0:01:04.090 --> 0:01:07.430 executed in the history of Texas, what is it, over 0:01:07.430 --> 0:01:11.450 200 years. So over 200 years ago was the last 0:01:11.510 --> 0:01:16.380 time that a woman or female in Texas had been executed. 0:01:17.540 --> 0:01:25.200 Already in the lead-up to Wednesday night's botched execution, Krista 0:01:25.260 --> 0:01:32.970 Pike demanded that she be given first an all-female firing squad, 0:01:33.730 --> 0:01:41.580 which was denied. Then she demanded an all-female lethal injection squad, 0:01:42.220 --> 0:01:47.740 which for the most part was denied. They did have 0:01:47.820 --> 0:01:52.180 females on the squad. on the execution squad, but some 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.660 of the key doctors were male. So it wasn't all female. Anyway, 0:01:56.820 --> 0:02:01.580 she's scheduled now to be executed. She has now become 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:12.820 a cause celebre among the left. Democrats, anti-capital punishment, activists, liberals, 0:02:14.350 --> 0:02:19.270 you name it, really along the entire liberal left spectrum. 0:02:20.300 --> 0:02:25.970 they believe that she should not be executed. And A, 0:02:26.050 --> 0:02:29.530 because she's a woman, and B, they don't believe in 0:02:29.570 --> 0:02:32.950 the death penalty to begin with, and they believe that 0:02:33.010 --> 0:02:37.010 this is unjust and that what Tennessee was doing was wrong. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:47.340 And so at the last possible moment, anti-capital punishment activists... 0:02:47.669 --> 0:02:52.650 went to a liberal Democrat judge and got a stay 0:02:52.790 --> 0:02:59.990 of execution. The governor then stepped in, but that wasn't enough. 0:03:00.910 --> 0:03:05.950 The Supreme Court then stepped in and lifted the stay 0:03:06.870 --> 0:03:12.670 and said, go ahead. She was convicted of murder. She 0:03:12.870 --> 0:03:20.769 was sentenced to be executed. This was in 1996. Now, 0:03:20.830 --> 0:03:24.869 this is my first point. It takes 30 years to 0:03:24.970 --> 0:03:31.489 execute someone? This is ridiculous. She was convicted of a 0:03:31.570 --> 0:03:38.070 murder in 1995. She was sentenced in 1996 to be executed. 0:03:39.510 --> 0:03:43.770 And only 30 years later, they're strapping her into a gurney? 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:51.800 to administer needles and this lethal injection dose. Anyway, let 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.550 that go. 30 years later, and apparently according to the 0:03:56.630 --> 0:04:04.690 witnesses that were there, including reporters, Krista Pike was laying 0:04:05.090 --> 0:04:09.940 on the gurney for an hour. She, in fact, was 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.430 telling them Why don't you try in, you know, why 0:04:13.450 --> 0:04:16.990 don't you try pricking me here? Why don't you try 0:04:17.070 --> 0:04:21.310 administering the needle here? Try the upper right shoulder. I 0:04:21.350 --> 0:04:25.390 believe there's a good vein there. So they were struggling 0:04:25.470 --> 0:04:29.240 for an hour to find a proper vein. And one 0:04:29.250 --> 0:04:33.339 of the reasons was she has a medical condition in 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:38.220 which her veins are very small and very hard to detect. 0:04:39.610 --> 0:04:44.570 And so before the execution, she said, look, I'm telling you, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.619 you're going to have a hard time finding a vein. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.260 And this may end up becoming torturous. So I'd rather 0:04:53.300 --> 0:04:56.800 you just off me with a firing squad. She and 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.690 her lawyers initially said, give us the firing squad. Don't 0:05:01.730 --> 0:05:06.200 do the lethal injection. But in Tennessee, they don't have 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.450 the firing squad. They don't even have the electric chair. 0:05:10.529 --> 0:05:14.469 So they only do this lethal injection because they believe 0:05:14.910 --> 0:05:20.740 it is the most humane, dignified way to execute someone 0:05:21.660 --> 0:05:26.890 with as little pain and cruelty as possible. So it 0:05:26.970 --> 0:05:32.350 went on 15 minutes, half an hour, 45 minutes. They're 0:05:32.390 --> 0:05:37.229 sticking needles here. They're sticking needles there. According to witnesses, 0:05:37.270 --> 0:05:40.690 they pulled out one needle. The needle was bent. She, 0:05:40.730 --> 0:05:43.850 in fact, began to complain that some parts of her 0:05:44.110 --> 0:05:48.390 arm were burning, saying, is it supposed to burn like this? 0:05:50.420 --> 0:05:54.760 They put in one lethal injection dose. It did not 0:05:54.820 --> 0:06:00.570 kill her. They then put in a second lethal injection dose. 0:06:01.910 --> 0:06:07.090 It did not kill her. In fact, she was still 0:06:07.290 --> 0:06:13.760 alive after both lethal injection doses. However, it looks like 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.099 she fell into a coma, the way they're describing it. Anyway, 0:06:17.460 --> 0:06:22.760 they said she was snoring loudly. They knew now they 0:06:22.779 --> 0:06:27.100 had a crisis on their hands. They had injected her twice. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:35.200 It did not kill her. She is now unconscious and snoring, 0:06:36.190 --> 0:06:41.190 but she's not dead. What do you do? Tennessee law 0:06:41.230 --> 0:06:45.130 says you can't give more than two lethal injections. Her 0:06:45.250 --> 0:06:52.230 lawyers on the spot filed a motion immediately to have 0:06:52.470 --> 0:06:57.960 an ambulance come and send her to the hospital. That's 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:04.170 exactly what happened. So she was taken off site, sent 0:07:04.290 --> 0:07:08.630 to a hospital apparently in Nashville, where as I speak 0:07:08.690 --> 0:07:11.390 to you now, if you can believe this, if you 0:07:11.410 --> 0:07:16.410 can believe it, she is now apparently in a coma. 0:07:17.130 --> 0:07:21.030 They believe she has suffered brain damage and they are 0:07:21.150 --> 0:07:27.910 trying to resuscitate and revive her and give her life-saving 0:07:28.150 --> 0:07:34.600 medical care. So they tried to kill her. Now they're 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:40.450 trying to save her. You want to talk about a, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.970 you know, forgive me, a crap show from beginning to end, 0:07:46.230 --> 0:07:50.930 this is it. The governor, Bill Lee, has now come 0:07:51.090 --> 0:07:56.400 out And he has canceled the only remaining scheduled execution 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.080 on the books for this year. And he says now 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:06.100 there must be a complete, thorough, comprehensive third-party review. What occurred? 0:08:06.540 --> 0:08:10.230 What happened? What the hell went wrong here? How could 0:08:10.260 --> 0:08:14.250 this have happened? Now, you need to know this. There 0:08:14.290 --> 0:08:19.290 was a male inmate in May. who was convicted of 0:08:19.370 --> 0:08:26.360 kidnapping and murdering three people. Not one, three. And apparently, 0:08:26.380 --> 0:08:30.840 he was going to be executed. And the Keystone, I 0:08:30.860 --> 0:08:35.160 was going to say Keystone cops, but the Keystone execution squad, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.240 in that case, this was just, well, what is it, 0:08:38.309 --> 0:08:43.070 four or five months ago, they couldn't find the proper 0:08:43.130 --> 0:08:48.660 way to administer the IVs. You can't make this up 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:55.830 to deliver the lethal injection. They struggled and struggled and struggled. 0:08:55.850 --> 0:08:59.850 They didn't even stick a needle in the guy. And 0:09:00.030 --> 0:09:04.270 that was botched. So it is now the second botched 0:09:04.429 --> 0:09:09.800 injection in Tennessee this year. Now, what is making this 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:16.680 case such a huge case is that Krista Pike, is 0:09:16.740 --> 0:09:22.390 now the first person to have survived one of these 0:09:22.550 --> 0:09:28.470 lethal injection doses. Usually it tends to work. It tends 0:09:28.510 --> 0:09:33.680 to kill you. It didn't this time. And the question 0:09:33.740 --> 0:09:38.140 is why? And the question is, where do we go 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.980 from here? Because her lawyers now are saying that this 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.480 amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. that she apparently was 0:09:47.540 --> 0:09:53.190 in solitary confinement for 20 years before the execution. And 0:09:53.290 --> 0:09:57.570 now she had this botched execution, which they say caused 0:09:57.690 --> 0:10:01.550 tremendous pain and torture on her. And so now her 0:10:01.630 --> 0:10:07.410 sentence should be commuted. In other words, no more executions, period. 0:10:07.890 --> 0:10:10.720 Let her just serve out her sentence life in prison 0:10:11.940 --> 0:10:16.359 and never try to execute this woman again. I want 0:10:16.380 --> 0:10:19.610 you to listen now. In fact, I'm going to play 0:10:19.650 --> 0:10:21.830 the cut on the other side because President Trump has 0:10:21.890 --> 0:10:26.590 already weighed in on this. Everybody's weighing in on this. Look, 0:10:27.030 --> 0:10:30.290 let me put it to you as frankly and bluntly 0:10:30.410 --> 0:10:35.600 and honestly as I can. I look at this and 0:10:35.670 --> 0:10:41.000 I say to myself, how far have we fallen that 0:10:41.059 --> 0:10:47.220 we can't even execute brutal convicted murderers anymore? 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:48.120 Okay. 0:10:48.140 --> 0:10:48.380 Okay. 0:10:48.870 --> 0:10:54.070 Listen now to President Trump asked about the botched execution 0:10:54.250 --> 0:11:00.559 in Tennessee. He was standing beside Congressman Ronny Jackson from Texas, 0:11:00.620 --> 0:11:03.179 who in fact is a doctor, is a medical doctor, 0:11:03.940 --> 0:11:08.880 and was Trump's physician, White House physician, during Trump's first term. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:16.990 And they're both absolutely dumbfounded at what happened. Roll cut one, Mike. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.380 The Press Well, that was an interesting situation. But you're 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.580 going to have to speak to Tennessee about it, whether 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.450 or not they're going to go forward. You know what 0:11:33.470 --> 0:11:37.929 that was about. That was an execution where the medication 0:11:37.970 --> 0:11:39.870 didn't exactly work. 0:11:39.910 --> 0:11:40.670 He would answer it. 0:11:40.650 --> 0:11:41.530 Better than anybody. 0:11:41.550 --> 0:11:42.590 How does that happen? 0:11:42.610 --> 0:11:43.710 He's a great doctor. 0:11:43.870 --> 0:11:46.730 It should be easy to do. It shouldn't be very difficult, 0:11:46.770 --> 0:11:47.360 shouldn't it? 0:11:50.150 --> 0:11:51.830 I mean, I'm sorry, the audio is not the best 0:11:51.850 --> 0:11:55.600 because they're asking him questions outside. But, you know, are 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.420 you going to be looking for any change in capital punishment? 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:05.199 The left and anti-capital punishment advocates are pouncing on what 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.540 happened now in Tennessee, saying, you see, you see, capital 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:14.920 punishment is inherently barbaric. It's cruel. It's a form of torture. 0:12:15.179 --> 0:12:19.750 It's inhumane. And it should be banned. We should not 0:12:19.929 --> 0:12:24.030 allow capital punishment in the United States of America. And 0:12:24.050 --> 0:12:27.890 they believe this is Exhibit A. Trump is looking at 0:12:27.950 --> 0:12:31.080 Ronny Jackson. Ronny Jackson is looking at Trump. And they're like, 0:12:31.540 --> 0:12:35.020 I don't. I mean, you just stick the needle in and, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.780 you know, the dose does itself. What the hell happened? 0:12:39.020 --> 0:12:41.739 We don't know. Now, it seems to me, and of 0:12:41.780 --> 0:12:44.630 course you may disagree with me, and I'd love to 0:12:44.690 --> 0:12:45.489 invite calls, 617-266-7000. 0:12:47.980 --> 0:12:48.660 68-68. 0:12:49.179 --> 0:12:55.460 Either this is sheer incompetence, as they failed in May 0:12:55.540 --> 0:12:58.540 with a male inmate. So, you know, it's two in 0:12:58.580 --> 0:13:04.020 a row now that they've botched. Or someone is trying 0:13:04.059 --> 0:13:10.380 to sabotage these injections. Because I guess they're against capital 0:13:10.450 --> 0:13:13.750 punishment or they don't want it to work or they 0:13:13.770 --> 0:13:18.059 have a political agenda. I don't know. But either this 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:25.430 is sabotage or this is a gross incompetence, honestly, on 0:13:25.470 --> 0:13:29.810 a scale that just, it blows the mind. Now, I 0:13:29.850 --> 0:13:32.290 just want all of you to stand back for a second. 0:13:34.330 --> 0:13:40.040 Why were the people of Tennessee so determined to go 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:46.579 through with the death penalty regarding Krista Pike? Krista Pike 0:13:47.100 --> 0:13:52.679 when she was 18 years old, had a 17-year-old boyfriend. 0:13:54.300 --> 0:14:01.820 One of her classmates, also, I believe, 18, Colleen Slemmer. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:09.579 According to Krista Pike, Pike was convinced that Colleen Slemmer 0:14:10.220 --> 0:14:15.319 had an interest in her 17-year-old boyfriend, and so she 0:14:15.380 --> 0:14:22.950 was jealous. And so she and her boyfriend and another accomplice, 0:14:22.990 --> 0:14:31.440 a 19-year-old girl, whatever, young woman, lured Colleen Slemmer to 0:14:31.500 --> 0:14:37.540 the University of Tennessee, but the Knoxville campus. And there, 0:14:38.980 --> 0:14:45.080 they dragged her to the ground and they performed, essentially, 0:14:45.700 --> 0:14:55.190 A satanic ritual killing. They marked a pentagram on her chest. 0:14:56.610 --> 0:15:03.930 They made some satanic incantations or prayers to Lucifer. And 0:15:03.990 --> 0:15:09.850 then they began to brutally beat her. It's a morning show. 0:15:10.330 --> 0:15:12.310 I don't want to get too much into the details, 0:15:12.970 --> 0:15:15.570 but suffice it to say they used a meat cleaver. 0:15:17.510 --> 0:15:22.470 Krista Pike eventually used a chunk of asphalt, smashed her 0:15:22.590 --> 0:15:27.090 skull to pieces. And to show you how barbaric this 0:15:27.150 --> 0:15:31.450 woman is, she then took a piece of the skull, 0:15:31.830 --> 0:15:37.480 the broken skull of Colleen Slammer, forgive me, Colleen Slammer's 0:15:37.540 --> 0:15:42.340 skull and kept it as a memento and as a 0:15:42.380 --> 0:15:48.620 kind of a sign to her devotion to Satan. The 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.040 17-year-old was convicted of murder, but because he was considered 0:15:52.090 --> 0:15:56.970 a juvenile, life in prison, no death penalty. The other 0:15:57.050 --> 0:16:04.810 accomplice got probation because she testified against both Krista Pike 0:16:04.930 --> 0:16:09.970 and her boyfriend. Krista Pike, though, was an adult, and 0:16:10.030 --> 0:16:13.270 she was found guilty of murder, and she's guilty of sin, 0:16:14.530 --> 0:16:20.160 and sentenced to death. When she's an inmate in prison, 0:16:22.340 --> 0:16:27.920 she tried to murder an inmate by using a pair 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.820 of shoelaces and attempting to strangle that inmate, and she 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:38.020 came very close to murdering that inmate. She was convicted 0:16:38.180 --> 0:16:41.780 of that, and then another 25 years was tacked on 0:16:41.820 --> 0:16:45.420 to her sentence. By the way, that's what the lawyers 0:16:45.460 --> 0:16:49.140 don't tell you, her lawyers, why she was in solitary confinement. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.320 She was in solitary confinement because if she wasn't put behind, 0:16:54.340 --> 0:16:57.680 you know, in solitary, she kept trying to murder everybody 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:05.670 around her. So she's a devil worshiper. She's a murderer. 0:17:07.060 --> 0:17:14.449 She's a torturer, and she's an attempted murderer. Now, let 0:17:14.490 --> 0:17:18.510 me be brutally honest with you. If anybody deserves the 0:17:18.550 --> 0:17:24.840 death penalty, it's Krista Pike. Now, what I don't understand 0:17:25.820 --> 0:17:31.350 is that what's wrong with Death by Firing Squad? 617-266-6868 0:17:32.530 --> 0:17:35.510 is the number. 0:17:35.530 --> 0:17:36.470 Okay. 0:17:36.869 --> 0:17:39.040 I want to ask all of you a couple of questions. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.359 Number one, what do you make just simply of the 0:17:44.460 --> 0:17:49.820 botched execution of Krista Pike? Do you think there is 0:17:49.900 --> 0:17:54.179 some kind of sabotage that's going on? Or are we 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.840 talking about colossal incompetence? And should people get fired? That's, 0:17:59.300 --> 0:18:04.340 to me, the obvious question. Now, the second question, and 0:18:04.859 --> 0:18:07.900 I'm not trying to seem insensitive, but I just have 0:18:07.940 --> 0:18:10.609 to call it the way I see it. Here is 0:18:10.740 --> 0:18:17.409 a murderer, a torturer, a Satanist, who also attempted to 0:18:17.450 --> 0:18:22.930 murder someone else in prison, clearly a very evil, demonic woman, 0:18:25.130 --> 0:18:30.340 who was found to be guilty, was sentenced to be executed, 0:18:32.740 --> 0:18:35.840 What I don't get is, and I understand it's the 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.619 protocols of Tennessee and they're following the protocols of Tennessee. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.699 They don't allow a firing squad. They don't allow the 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.980 electric chair. They don't allow hanging. You can only do 0:18:46.060 --> 0:18:50.119 two lethal injections after that. It's considered cruel and unusual punishment. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.270 And you have to stop. And that's where the ambulance 0:18:53.330 --> 0:18:55.850 came and they took her to the hospital. And now 0:18:55.869 --> 0:18:58.869 they're trying to revive this person who was scheduled to 0:18:58.910 --> 0:19:02.370 be killed. The whole thing is absurd. But you do 0:19:02.450 --> 0:19:06.669 it twice and you see that she's snoring and that 0:19:06.710 --> 0:19:11.990 she's still not dead. As I said to Mike yesterday, 0:19:13.010 --> 0:19:15.910 if the woman is going to be executed, if this 0:19:16.010 --> 0:19:19.390 is an execution, if this is, quote, the death penalty, unquote, 0:19:19.730 --> 0:19:25.600 meaning death. Am I the only one? How about a 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:31.070 third injection? How about, you know, I don't know, a gun? Bang. 0:19:31.410 --> 0:19:35.410 That's it. It's over. You know, good night, Irene. That'll 0:19:35.430 --> 0:19:38.330 take care of it. You know, in other words, what 0:19:38.369 --> 0:19:46.130 I'm saying is, how incompetent can you be that you 0:19:46.210 --> 0:19:50.690 can't even do a freaking execution? You know, say what 0:19:50.730 --> 0:19:54.740 you want about the Iranians. They have no problem executing people. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.760 The Russians, they have no problem executing people. The Chinese, 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.139 they have no problem executing people. Hell, I don't have 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:09.310 to even look abroad. Texas, you get executed in Texas, 0:20:09.350 --> 0:20:14.250 you're gone. You know, I mean, I look around, how 0:20:14.270 --> 0:20:17.950 come other states can administer capital punishment and it's absolutely 0:20:18.010 --> 0:20:24.649 no problem? Now, Marsha Blackburn, she's a senator from Tennessee. 0:20:24.710 --> 0:20:27.630 She's now running to be the next governor. Thank the Lord, 0:20:27.670 --> 0:20:29.490 if I was in Tennessee, I'd be voting for her, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.780 but let that go. She now is saying we have 0:20:32.820 --> 0:20:37.840 to bring back the electric chair. That this lethal injection stuff, 0:20:38.540 --> 0:20:43.010 We're going too far. It's not lethal enough, obviously. And 0:20:43.090 --> 0:20:46.870 so she says if she's governor, she's going to bring 0:20:46.910 --> 0:20:52.090 back the electric chair and basically fry him. And, you know, 0:20:52.310 --> 0:20:55.390 it may take a minute. It may be a little painful. 0:20:55.470 --> 0:20:58.790 And that's the other thing. Everyone is going on about, well, 0:20:58.810 --> 0:21:02.150 the lethal injection, you know, we use it because we 0:21:02.190 --> 0:21:08.280 don't want the the the inmate, the convicted criminal to suffer. 0:21:09.109 --> 0:21:13.370 During an execution. And I was having this discussion with 0:21:13.430 --> 0:21:16.889 Grace last night. I said, I don't mind a little punishment. 0:21:17.810 --> 0:21:21.010 I don't mind a little pain for them after everything 0:21:21.050 --> 0:21:24.449 that they've done to everybody else around them. You know, 0:21:24.470 --> 0:21:27.370 like take hanging. One of the reasons why we don't 0:21:27.390 --> 0:21:30.850 do hangings anymore. They're very effective. They were used in 0:21:30.869 --> 0:21:33.790 the old West all the time. Well, you hang somebody. 0:21:33.850 --> 0:21:36.130 And by the way, the Iranians use hangings all the time. 0:21:38.070 --> 0:21:41.909 Believe me, they work. They don't have botched executions in Iran, 0:21:42.109 --> 0:21:46.530 as an example. So even a primitive third world country 0:21:46.590 --> 0:21:50.690 like them, they can actually administer an execution and do 0:21:50.730 --> 0:21:54.780 it on the first try. Now, yes, your legs are kicking, 0:21:55.300 --> 0:22:00.080 your arms are kicking, because you're suffocating, and it's painful 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:06.520 for about two minutes. Well, what about here? Colleen Slemmer. 0:22:07.670 --> 0:22:11.710 It took nearly an hour for her and her boyfriend 0:22:12.030 --> 0:22:16.930 to finally finish her off and murder her. They tortured 0:22:16.990 --> 0:22:22.290 her in the most despicable ways imaginable for nearly an hour. 0:22:24.430 --> 0:22:28.150 So it's okay for them to torture the victim for 0:22:28.190 --> 0:22:34.730 nearly an hour? An excruciating pain and humiliation? But God 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.119 forbid they should suffer two minutes as their legs are 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:42.119 kicking and they're being hung, as an example. Firing squad, 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:46.700 it's almost automatic. You put four or five shooters, sharpshooters, 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:50.159 basically they cut you to ribbons. Maybe you feel something 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:55.140 for 10 seconds. Maybe. But what I'm saying is, suddenly, 0:22:55.160 --> 0:23:02.310 you know, these murderers and torturers, suddenly they can't suffer. Well, 0:23:02.410 --> 0:23:05.220 why shouldn't they suffer? To me, that should be part 0:23:05.260 --> 0:23:13.520 of the whole process. Am I wrong? So, yes, if 0:23:13.619 --> 0:23:16.760 need be, bring back the electric chair. Hell, I'm telling you, 0:23:16.780 --> 0:23:22.080 bring back the firing squad. And there's no mistakes there. 0:23:23.300 --> 0:23:28.220 But this, this is now turning into a joke. By 0:23:28.270 --> 0:23:32.969 the way, Tennessee used to administer three drugs, three different 0:23:32.990 --> 0:23:38.320 lethal doses. So, you know, boom, boom, boom, you're dead. No, 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.859 apparently they don't want you to know you're being injected 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.580 three times. It takes too long. It's too painful for 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.820 the criminal, for the inmate. So they made it into 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:53.369 one drug. And I don't know, I guess it was 0:23:53.430 --> 0:23:57.050 diluted or it was the dosage wasn't strong enough or 0:23:57.170 --> 0:24:02.070 whatever it was. And instead, it went on for over 0:24:02.109 --> 0:24:05.530 an hour, and they injected her once, then they took 0:24:05.550 --> 0:24:09.030 the same dose and injected it a second time. And 0:24:09.050 --> 0:24:12.680 then it took about an hour. Sorry, the whole thing 0:24:12.700 --> 0:24:17.419 took over an hour. And she fell asleep snoring, and 0:24:17.460 --> 0:24:19.740 apparently now she's in a deep coma, and it appears 0:24:20.340 --> 0:24:25.020 her liver, her kidney function was badly disrupted. And apparently 0:24:25.060 --> 0:24:28.710 now she's suffering brain damage. She may never wake up again. 0:24:30.710 --> 0:24:34.740 I mean, this whole thing to me is just, people 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:40.399 should be fired over this at a bare minimum. Now, 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:45.300 what do you do with her now? What do you 0:24:45.340 --> 0:24:49.560 do with her now? If she's lying there like a vegetable, 0:24:49.580 --> 0:24:54.050 you know, brain dead, essentially, what do you do? You 0:24:54.109 --> 0:24:57.410 keep trying to revive her? What, do you execute her? What, 0:24:57.430 --> 0:25:01.060 do you just leave her in that condition? What do 0:25:01.100 --> 0:25:05.900 we do? Seriously, what should we do? My view, she 0:25:05.940 --> 0:25:13.459 was sentenced to be executed. Finish the job. Don't, you know, 0:25:13.500 --> 0:25:15.199 the taxpayer is going to have to pay for her 0:25:15.220 --> 0:25:18.760 to be on feeding tubes. Now, let me say one 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:20.399 last thing, and then I promise I'm going to go 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:25.490 to the phones. And again, it's always the same. The 0:25:25.570 --> 0:25:28.550 voice of the victims and their families are never heard. 0:25:30.710 --> 0:25:38.399 Lost yesterday amidst the media circus, crying for Krista Pike, 0:25:41.220 --> 0:25:46.920 attacking capital punishment, calling for capital punishment, the death penalty 0:25:46.980 --> 0:25:51.570 to be banned. Again, the left, like they did with 0:25:51.790 --> 0:25:57.330 Lindsay Clancy, now turning Krista Pike into a cause celebrity, 0:25:58.090 --> 0:26:04.970 a folk hero. this Satanist who, you know, brutally tortured 0:26:05.109 --> 0:26:11.369 and then murdered an innocent 18-year-old girl and in prison 0:26:11.470 --> 0:26:14.840 tried to choke to death, strangle to death with shoelaces, 0:26:15.380 --> 0:26:19.580 another inmate. Okay, so basically you're looking at a serial 0:26:19.619 --> 0:26:24.040 killer or a wannabe serial killer. That's who the left 0:26:24.100 --> 0:26:29.460 now lionizes. But let that go. Colleen Slemmer, the victim's mother, 0:26:31.250 --> 0:26:40.630 was there at the correctional facility waiting for justice. She said, 0:26:40.670 --> 0:26:46.960 I've been waiting 30 years for this. Finally, foreclosure on 0:26:47.020 --> 0:26:53.859 what happened to my beautiful, wonderful Colleen. And then as 0:26:53.900 --> 0:26:59.959 she walked out, she said, I can't believe this. They 0:27:00.020 --> 0:27:05.480 make me wait 30 years. 30 years I live with this. 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:13.010 30 years. And other family members. 30 years. And you 0:27:13.070 --> 0:27:15.790 guys can't even stick two needles or a needle into 0:27:15.830 --> 0:27:21.310 her arm? And now this fiasco? And now this is 0:27:21.330 --> 0:27:25.520 going to be hanging over me? And now the media, 0:27:25.780 --> 0:27:31.630 the Democrats, the left... are turning Krista Pike, this murderer, 0:27:33.730 --> 0:27:40.770 into the victim? And everybody has forgotten her 18-year-old girl? Who, 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:45.820 by the way, wasn't even interested in the boyfriend, just 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:48.780 so that people know. And even if she was, that's 0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:52.100 not a crime. You don't torture and murder somebody for that. 0:27:53.510 --> 0:27:56.909 But that lunatic was convinced, I believe this was a 0:27:56.970 --> 0:28:01.000 ritual killing. They were looking for an excuse. They wanted 0:28:01.020 --> 0:28:05.290 to have a sacrifice to Satan. Okay, just very quick. 0:28:05.350 --> 0:28:10.590 This is from Larry on Messenger. Jeff, so they don't 0:28:10.650 --> 0:28:16.070 directly inject the lethal dose, the lethal drug. They put 0:28:16.150 --> 0:28:21.480 in an IV and then inject the lethal drugs through 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:27.689 the IV. And apparently what happened was They likely missed 0:28:27.890 --> 0:28:32.800 the vein, and the injection went into either the fatty 0:28:32.859 --> 0:28:37.600 tissue or the muscle. And that's what ended up causing 0:28:37.619 --> 0:28:41.960 a coma, but it wasn't powerful enough to stop her heart, 0:28:42.000 --> 0:28:45.320 which is what this dose is supposed to do, and 0:28:45.340 --> 0:28:50.050 thereby killing you. So that's pretty much what happened yesterday. 0:28:50.890 --> 0:28:54.130 Very quick, this is the lawyer, or one of the 0:28:54.170 --> 0:28:59.120 two lawyers... For Krista Pike, this is attorney Stephen Farrell, 0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:02.990 and this is what he had to say. Roll cut 0:29:03.210 --> 0:29:04.330 to Mike. 0:29:07.950 --> 0:29:12.490 Krista Pike was very concerned that this execution would go 0:29:12.670 --> 0:29:16.660 exactly the way it ended up coming out. She's explained 0:29:16.700 --> 0:29:19.120 to us that she had trouble with blood draws. 0:29:21.240 --> 0:29:24.880 So she was very worried about it. That's why, in fact, 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:28.700 she and her lawyers were asking for death by firing squad, 0:29:29.220 --> 0:29:32.100 even though Tennessee doesn't have it. She was saying, look, 0:29:32.140 --> 0:29:35.190 please make an exception for me. If you start playing 0:29:35.230 --> 0:29:40.040 with IVs and needles and looking to find veins, you're not... 0:29:40.100 --> 0:29:42.260 going to find one with me because her veins apparently 0:29:42.300 --> 0:29:47.880 are extremely small. Listen now to the attorney again, Stephen Farrell. 0:29:47.920 --> 0:29:51.710 This is Krista Pike's attorney saying, and we even went 0:29:51.750 --> 0:29:56.370 to court. We actually went to court over this and 0:29:56.570 --> 0:30:00.100 nobody took us seriously. Roll cut to way, Mike. 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:05.940 Her blood draws were difficult. She has a blood disorder 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.620 that contributes to that. And we knew this was coming. 0:30:10.060 --> 0:30:13.370 So back in January, we asked that this problem be 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:17.770 addressed in a way that would not lead to the 0:30:17.830 --> 0:30:19.230 torture that happened last night. 0:30:20.450 --> 0:30:23.610 Okay, now I want to throw one last log on 0:30:23.630 --> 0:30:25.330 the fire and then I'm going to go to the phones. 0:30:26.350 --> 0:30:29.350 Do you think what happened last night Would you consider 0:30:29.430 --> 0:30:36.010 that torture? I'm just curious. Do you consider that torture? 0:30:36.390 --> 0:30:39.120 Because this is what her lawyers, and to be fair, 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:44.120 this is what the media, the so-called fake news media, 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:48.600 they're pouncing all over this, that by having the two 0:30:48.660 --> 0:30:53.040 injections be botched and this going on for over an hour, 0:30:53.940 --> 0:30:56.360 Now she's, you know, apparently in a deep sleep, you know, 0:30:56.380 --> 0:31:00.930 a deep snooze. She's snoring. Looks like she's got brain damage. 0:31:00.990 --> 0:31:04.910 But anyway, they're saying she suffered a lot of pain 0:31:06.070 --> 0:31:11.550 and that this amounts to state sanctioned torture. And that 0:31:11.590 --> 0:31:15.300 this is cruel and unusual punishment. which is, as you know, 0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:19.840 against the Constitution, and that they want her now to 0:31:19.940 --> 0:31:24.120 have her death penalty rescinded or commuted, to be more accurate, 0:31:24.850 --> 0:31:28.230 and that she should now be left alive, whether it's 0:31:28.270 --> 0:31:30.150 on a feeding tube or if she does make a 0:31:30.190 --> 0:31:33.170 full recovery or she's revived, to then spend the rest 0:31:33.210 --> 0:31:36.850 of her days, she's only 50 years old, behind bars 0:31:37.550 --> 0:31:40.870 for life, but that she should no longer have to 0:31:40.950 --> 0:31:48.440 face the death penalty. 617- 266-6868. You know where I stand. 0:31:49.160 --> 0:31:52.280 Finish the job. What are we waiting for here? A 0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:57.540 sentence is a sentence. A death penalty is a death penalty. 0:31:58.620 --> 0:32:01.000 And there are many ways to do it outside of 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:04.880 a lethal injection. But that's me. I want to hear 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:05.320 from you. 0:32:05.340 --> 0:32:05.400 617-266-6868. 0:32:05.400 --> 0:32:15.500 Rick, in Nashville, Tennessee. Thanks for holding, Rick, and welcome. 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:21.270