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Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard ever exonerated from U.S. death row, grapples with the aftermath of his wro | dG1fdmM2M2FPYWk4cnM
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00:01Choose a meal.
00:05You're going to be executed tomorrow.
00:08You're going to see the last minute of your life on a clock.
00:16You don't know if you're going to scream,
00:19and they're telling you, choose a meal.
00:25I was there three years, and I was losing my mind.
00:30It's amazing to me that anybody can continue in that situation and not give up.
00:37I felt a lot of hatred, and I felt betrayed by God.
00:42I recall the conversations I would have with Brother Dale.
00:46He says, you know, maybe it's wrong that you're here, but God hasn't abandoned you.
00:51Maybe it's you that has not just abandoned God, but yourself.
00:54You have to assume that of the 1,600 people who have been executed,
01:05we probably have executed innocent people.
01:08How do we justify taking human life?
01:11Gratuitously.
01:13Look at the walls, how small they are.
01:20If you don't wake me up, I can dreamt with me right now.
01:24This is one of ours.
01:25And Madam Kirk, would you call us the right place?
01:26State of Florida, this is Joaquin Jose Martinez.
01:28We, the jury, find us foes as to count one of indictment.
01:32The defendant is not guilty.
01:33When they tell me that I'm going home, I bought a sandwich for every single one of the guys on death row.
01:51It was like saying, this is our last meal together.
01:56Let's meal together.
02:03Hablo en contra de la pena de muerte por lo que representa.
02:07El odio, el rencor, la venganza, la falta de compasión, la falta de perdón, la falta de humanidad.
02:16You know healing is taking place when somebody is using their experience of trauma to try and relieve the suffering of others.
02:29Este sentido perdón libera, no?
02:32Me hace sentir a mi bien.
02:34Libera porque te...
02:36You know, I believe in the death penalty.
02:38I grew up thinking, you know, that it was, I guess in some ways, a relief for the victims' families.
02:43If anything, it served as, as closure to the victims' families, you know?
02:48They talk about that whole bill about it supposed to bring closure.
02:52There's no such thing.
02:54It doesn't happen.
02:56I think we'll get there.
03:06Your hope club.
03:08Yeah.
03:09It's last to the lose.
03:10Hope.
03:11Hope.
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