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Tennessee Execution Goes Wrong, Utah Man Freed After 41 Years, Mom Arrested After Cruise · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Tennessee tried to execute the only woman on its death
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  Speaker 1: row this week, but something went seriously wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that Pike appeared notably awake.
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  Speaker 1: And now the governor has stopped executions for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the year. And a Utah man sentenced to die
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  Speaker 1: for murder is walking free after more than four decades
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  Speaker 1: behind bars as questions continue to grow about the case
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  Speaker 1: against him.
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  Speaker 3: Today was the first day he's walked outside without being
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  Speaker 3: shackled hands and feet.
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  Speaker 1: And a Florida mom went on a three-day cruise to
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  Speaker 1: the Bahamas. Police say there was just one problem. She
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  Speaker 1: left her four children home alone.
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  Speaker 4: It says she went on a cruise and left her
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  Speaker 4: children home alone. Including a two-month-old baby. She was going
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  Speaker 4: to drop them off at the mother's house, but never did.
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  Speaker 5: These poor kids were home alone for three days.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's probable cause for child neglect. It's Friday,
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  Speaker 1: October 2nd. From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Amy Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This is Front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. Tennessee is reviewing its execution process after
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  Speaker 1: Krista Pike survived two doses of lethal injections Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Pike is the only woman on Tennessee's death row and
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  Speaker 1: would have been the first woman executed in the state
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  Speaker 1: in more than 200 years. Witnesses say after the first dose,
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  Speaker 1: she was still awake and responding. The state then gave
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  Speaker 1: her a second dose, and she was still alive.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that Pike appeared notably awake as the
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  Speaker 2: execution began. The curtains of the execution chamber closed for
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  Speaker 2: the final time at around 8.06 p.m., and she could
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  Speaker 2: be heard loudly snoring, clearly very alive, in the chamber
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  Speaker 2: until media witnesses were told to leave the area.
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  Speaker 1: Pike was eventually taken to the hospital. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what makes this case so unusual. People have survived execution
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  Speaker 1: attempts before when officials couldn't get the drugs into their system.
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  Speaker 1: But the Death Penalty Information Center says there is no
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  Speaker 1: known cause of someone receiving the execution drugs and surviving.
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  Speaker 1: It is also the second execution Tennessee has failed to
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  Speaker 1: carry out this year. Governor Bill Lee has now ordered
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  Speaker 1: an independent review and says there will be no more
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  Speaker 1: executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year. The
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  Speaker 1: state says it followed its protocol. Pike's attorneys say what
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  Speaker 1: happened shows there are serious problems with that protocol and
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  Speaker 1: that the execution caused unnecessary suffering. Pike was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer. And
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  Speaker 1: a 71-year-old black man who spent 41 years behind bars,
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  Speaker 1: most of them on death row, is now free while
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors reassess the murder case against him. Douglas Carter was
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  Speaker 1: charged in the killing of Eva Olson in Utah in 1985,
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  Speaker 1: but his conviction was overturned after investigative misconduct was uncovered.
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  Speaker 1: Two key witnesses later recanted, and Carter has long said
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  Speaker 1: his confession was coerced. And now new DNA testing found
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  Speaker 1: Carter is not a match for DNA recovered from key
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  Speaker 1: evidence at the crime scene. His attorney, Neil Hamilton, says
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  Speaker 1: Carter could have been executed before any of this evidence
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  Speaker 1: came to light.
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  Speaker 3: Today was the first day he's walked outside without being
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  Speaker 3: shackled hands and feet. He hasn't seen the sky. He
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  Speaker 3: hasn't tasted fresh air. He's going to have to relearn
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  Speaker 3: to live his life. He doesn't know anything about our society,
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  Speaker 3: anything about our world. The world Doug walked into is
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  Speaker 3: not the world he walked out of when the States
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  Speaker 3: stole his life.
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  Speaker 1: Carter walked out of jail Monday night and was met
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  Speaker 1: by his son, Tyler anger, who talked about the simple
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  Speaker 1: things they want to do together after 41 years.
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  Speaker 6: I want him to have a cup of coffee that
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  Speaker 6: I brought him. Hopefully it's still kind of hot. Hopefully
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  Speaker 6: he doesn't get too jittery cause it's been a while. Um,
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  Speaker 6: I want him to see the stars. I'd like for
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  Speaker 6: him to just get a life that we all get
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  Speaker 6: to live.
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  Speaker 1: Now Carter has not been exonerated, the murder charge is
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  Speaker 1: still pending, and prosecutors are reassessing the evidence. But they
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  Speaker 1: have taken the death penalty off the table. Carter is
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  Speaker 1: out on bail with a GPS monitor, and his attorneys
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  Speaker 1: are now pushing prosecutors to drop the murder charge altogether.
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  Speaker 1: And a Florida mother is facing four counts of child
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  Speaker 1: neglect after police say she left her four children home
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  Speaker 1: alone and went on a three-day cruise to the Bahamas.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Belazar is 29 years old. Her children range in
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  Speaker 1: age from two months to 12 years old. Police say
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  Speaker 1: the children's father became suspicious after seeing a cruise ticket
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  Speaker 1: on her WhatsApp story. Belazar allegedly told him the kids
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  Speaker 1: were staying with their great-grandmother. But two days later, he
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  Speaker 1: went to the apartment and saw the TV on and
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  Speaker 1: heard the children inside. He called 911. Police forced their
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  Speaker 1: way in and found all four children alone in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Their great-grandmother told investigators Belazar was supposed to drop the
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  Speaker 1: kids off with her, but never did. She was arrested
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  Speaker 1: when the crews returned to Miami. And at her bond hearing,
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  Speaker 1: the judge had plenty to say after reading the allegations
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  Speaker 1: against her.
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  Speaker 4: It says she went on a cruise and left her
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  Speaker 4: children home alone. Including a two-month-old baby.
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  Speaker 5: She's going to drop them off at the mother's house,
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  Speaker 5: but never did. These poor kids, we're home alone for
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  Speaker 5: three days. I guess there's probable cause for child neglect.
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  Speaker 4: We're just grateful nothing worse happened to these kids. Judge Ms.
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  Speaker 4: Belizer denies these allegations. Of course she does. One baby,
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  Speaker 4: the baby was born in July of this year. Who
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  Speaker 4: leaves a baby alone like that? You would agree to
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  Speaker 4: supervised visitation. I don't think I want to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Who leaves a kid, four little kids alone? Judge, it's
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  Speaker 4: an allegation at this time. To go on a cruise.
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  Speaker 4: They arrested her disembarking from the cruise ship.
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  Speaker 1: Police say the children were not seriously hurt. Belazar has
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  Speaker 1: been ordered to have no contact with the children for
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  Speaker 1: now while the case goes through family court. That's your
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  Speaker 1: Front Page. I'm Mimi Brown. This podcast was brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by the Black Effect Podcast Network.