all righty
so how what do you think of capital punishment
well Texas has capital punishment
oh does it
yep and uh
they go through a set of appeals that lasts seven years
and uh
there are so many cases here like Sixty Minutes is on right now here there are so many cases here where they proved that they've convicted the wrong person
yeah
that i'm against it they should just give them life in prison
well i feel that way the only exception i think is qualifies for capital punishment is repeat offenders where the offender actually murders people repeatedly
right
like serial killers or someone who has been convicted more than three times on a murder charge and then gotten out on parole i don't think they should be able to get out on parole and do it again
yeah exactly
right uh-huh
that's the only time i think it's really
well like in your state Charles Manson
yeah
or the guy who killed all those children
yeah exactly
yeah
um-hum
and i think i think those types of people deserve capital punishment
but i think they should restrict it strictly for repeat offenders or like i said serial killers because i mean a lot of times not a lot of times but quite quite a few times they've convicted innocent people on the first time
right
um-hum
but you know if they've been convicted like three times you know there something's wrong
something's going on right
so i think that's the only time it's really a necessary
yeah i think so too after after it's gone that far then they pretty well have a
uh
enough proof that that person's
the guilty party
they can't be rehabilitated rehabilitated either so yeah
right
but that's really the only time when i agree with it
um-hum
most of the time i don't think it's a good idea because like you said there have been cases where they've convicted the wrong people
yeah
just because of circumstances
um-hum
but in Arizona which is where i'm originally from
they had a big thing about capital punishment there because we had like two serial killers within six months caught
and they had a big thing about whether they should you know go for capital punishment or not but it's not used in Arizona
um-hum
so they had a problem with it
unfortunately all the people got was sent to jail for a couple of years until they get paroled
right i never heard about those
unfortunately one of them killed a friend of mine so i was very much involved
and when he got out on parole i was like
go ahead get out on parole
um-hum
and
after that i had i had to tangle with him and the police caught him the second time and they still wouldn't do anything except send him to jail so
yeah
i definitely believe if they're repeat offenders they should
be
something to be done with them other than just sitting there for two years and then getting out and doing it again
right
but a lot of states have outlawed capital punishment
um-hum
i don't know which states in general
and that's that's the reason that Ted Bundy supposedly went to Florida
oh really
that was his primary goal was to to have the death penalty
hum
because he started out in Washington and Oregon and traveled all the way across the country
huh i didn't know that
they had um
Mark Harmon played him they had a movie about it a few years ago
yeah
really
um-hum
hum i didn't know that
and then of course there was a lot of publicity about it um the days before they killed him
yeah
um-hum
so
but
and he was really you know he was off the wall so
i don't know a lot of the crimes that are done nowadays it's like i think people have to be off the wall to do them but
i still don't believe capital punishment should be used unless they're repeat offenders
right
but
i don't know i
once i finish law school i'll have
more probably more views on it
i'll be able to do something about it then
and
yeah and some of the ways i think that um the way that Texas um executes the prisoners is probably the most humane way they use they do it by injection
oh do they
yeah instead of you know the electric chair the gas chamber that's
yeah
you know
that would be the more humane way of doing it
yeah well they you know they just go to sleep and and then eventually they die
yeah
instead of being you know fried or
or
or stuck in a gas chamber until they finally pass on
yeah fighting fighting for breath right um-hum
but i know a couple of states
still believe in the hanging but
um-hum
i don't i don't go for that either
