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00:30The fantasy is that you're on death row, you can order mountains of food, whatever you
00:38want.
00:39The reality is most states have a cap, a limit on how much you can spend.
00:44You say you order fish, you get the equivalent that's in the prison cafeteria.
01:06We probably had this perception that when someone's going to be executed, every legal
01:10stone has been unturned.
01:12Everything's been done, they've made sure that the case is airtight, that kind of thing,
01:17and it's just not that case at all.
01:19It's really disturbing.
01:39It's obviously easy when it's a Ted Bundy or a John Wayne Gacy to not feel anything.
01:43But then when you start looking at the other side of the case, it's based on an eyewitness
01:49testimony or some kind of science like bite marks.
01:53That's completely bogus.
01:54And you're like, they've executed someone based on this evidence.
01:58And it's clearly erroneous.
02:07It's definitely not uncommon for death row inmates to not eat their last meals.
02:13Often families invited in and they might eat the meal.
02:16Perhaps wardens, prison guards, that sort of thing.
02:19Much is made of that particular case in Texas where, this is Lawrence Russell Brewer, where
02:24he didn't eat the meal and they're sort of seeing it as a political stance, which maybe
02:31it wasn't.
03:02Just log on to Netflix and see every documentary that's being made about true crime and serial
03:09killers.
03:10There's a new Ted Bundy film at basically every film festival.
03:14There is a fascination with death row and there's plenty of death row content.
03:18It's usually from the side of this person absolutely deserves to die.
03:22It's not sexy to look at people who shouldn't have been executed.
03:25Let's put it that way.
03:26I think finally, the United States should have another look at this death penalty thing.
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