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Speaker 1: A warning. This episode contains language and depictions of violence

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Speaker 1: that may be disturbing to some listeners. In the United States,

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Speaker 1: only people get the depth. John poor white, poor blacks,

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Speaker 1: don't get that type of guilty. Derek Jamison death Row

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Speaker 1: Exonerie number one nineteen came within hours of being executed

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Speaker 1: is scheduled to be executed by the State of Ohio

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Speaker 1: on November sixteenth, twenty twenty three. No, my time, the

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Speaker 1: clappers went out, putting Keith's innocence or guilt aside. Is

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Speaker 1: the death penalty fair? And will the changes some are

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Speaker 1: trying to make even in this case, and now we're

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Speaker 1: down two months. My time is steadily you know, running out.

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Speaker 1: I'm Leah Rothman. This is the real Killer Episode ten.

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Speaker 1: The clock is ticking. Let's be real. The death penalty

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Speaker 1: has been a controversial subject for some time now. It

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Speaker 1: seems the first recorded execution in the United States was

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Speaker 1: in sixteen oh eight, when the states were still just

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Speaker 1: a bunch of colonies. According to a database of executions

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Speaker 1: called the sp File, from sixteen oh eight to nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy six, more than fourteen thousand people were executed. According

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Speaker 1: to the Death Penalty Information Center, since nineteen seventy six,

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Speaker 1: there have been fifteen hundred and sixty three people executed

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Speaker 1: in the United States, and in Ohio. Since the state

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Speaker 1: first started executing people, three hundred and ninety three people

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Speaker 1: were publicly hanged, then came the electric chair. In nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy two, the US Supreme Court ruled that the death

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Speaker 1: penalty was unconstitutional. In seventy four, the state revised the

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Speaker 1: So in nineteen eighty one, Ohio drafted a new law

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Speaker 1: to reflect the strict criteria for imposing the death sentence,

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Speaker 1: and lawmakers enacted that Eighteen years later, the state resumed

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Speaker 1: executions there. First was Wilfred Barry, nicknamed the Volunteer because

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Speaker 1: Barry actually volunteered to be executed. In two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: the states stopped using the electric chair and Old Sparky,

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Speaker 1: the electric chair at Lucasville was officially decommissioned. All executions

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Speaker 1: from that point on have been carried out by lethal injection.

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Speaker 1: Some years later, Dayton's WDTN reports a Preble County killer

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Speaker 1: Dennis McGuire was also the first in the nation to

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Speaker 1: In December of twenty eighteen, Cincinnati's w KRC Local twelve

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Speaker 1: So Governor Mike DeWine postpones executions in twenty nineteen and

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Speaker 1: Justification for capital punishment is that it saves lives, It

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Speaker 1: So although Ohio today still has an unofficial moratorium on executions,

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Speaker 1: that arena. One was fairness for the LGBTQ community. I'm

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Speaker 1: I am not a liberal by any shot of the imagination.

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Speaker 1: State Representative Jean Schmidt. I speak with her over zoom too.

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Speaker 1: Representative Schmidt began her political career as a state representative

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Speaker 1: go hear her, and she talked about it from God's position.

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Speaker 1: want me to do this, I said, but I promise

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Speaker 1: Here's Senator Antonio again, there are certain things that we

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Speaker 1: should not be legislating. Certainly around the issue of choice,

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Speaker 1: that's one of them. But around the issue of whether

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Speaker 1: And she says there are many reasons why, because it's

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Speaker 1: not taking a life that states sanction. There's religious practice,

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Speaker 1: there's the inequities of the death penalty, and in Ohio,

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Speaker 1: back and then years later actually came and testified for

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Speaker 1: because he said, this bill, this law has become a lottery,

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Speaker 1: a death lottery for people of color. He called it out.

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Speaker 1: reason of recidivism. Does it prevent anyone from committing murder

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Speaker 1: And nobody's been able to prove that that it's a deterrent.

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Speaker 1: look at the Tony Uponovich story. This guy didn't even

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Speaker 1: When I met sister Helen Preischon, she talked about a

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Speaker 1: the guiddn't do it. They were two minutes late at

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Speaker 1: is crazy to kill on a technicality when they're innocent,

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Speaker 1: and yet we have the opportunity to do it in Ohio.

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Speaker 1: I do have a bill to correct the DNA issue,

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Speaker 1: but while I'm asking for it to be retroactive, the

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Speaker 1: prosecutors will most likely object, and so it will be

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Speaker 1: it'll address future problems. And that's just crazy. And the

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Speaker 1: didn't kill her. I have visited him and he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, the saddest he said, the most tortuous thing

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Speaker 1: for him is having freedom for almost three years, being

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Speaker 1: He married a woman that was his age. She had

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Speaker 1: But now, almost four decades later, Anthony Apanovich still sits

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Speaker 1: all on the courts, as they say, next time, I'm

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Speaker 1: the Real Killer. I believe that Keith is not guilty.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to go to trial because he was naive,

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Speaker 1: he was young, and he believed in the American justice system,

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Speaker 1: and he was punished for that. Keith has a serious

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Speaker 1: message for his punishers. But if and when my time comes,

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Speaker 1: they will know that how I feel about them in

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Speaker 1: this bullshit system. I'm not gonna, you know, play the

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Speaker 1: meek role, you know, the you know, the forgiving slaves.

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Speaker 1: Won't be able to go home and put your kids

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Speaker 1: in the bid because you're gonna have to murder me.

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Speaker 1: You have to murder somebody when that day comes. That's

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Speaker 1: on everything I love, On everything I love. Who have

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