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DLHS Hour 2 | Two Execution Attempts and Tennessee Still Alive · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: So it is the D.L. Hughley Show, your 2026 edition.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you're going to be in Columbus, Ohio, starting tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be at the Mershon Auditorium. And then the following
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  Speaker 2: day in Cincinnati, the Tab Theater. So come check me
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  Speaker 2: out if you're taking notes.
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  Speaker 1: Don Lemon, D.L. and D.L.
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  Speaker 3: So there was a drop the scenario, Chasm Sanders. So
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  Speaker 3: Krista Pike. Has survived lethal injection attempts. They tried to
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  Speaker 3: they gave it to her twice. The first one didn't take,
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  Speaker 3: as you would say. So they gave it to her
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  Speaker 3: a second time. Now, she was serving. Initially, she was sentenced,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, to death by lethal injection for first
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  Speaker 3: degree murder. that she committed back in 1995. Murder was
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  Speaker 3: the case that they gave her. Yeah, she was 18
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  Speaker 3: years old. She's been in prison since. She was supposed
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  Speaker 3: to have death by lethal injection plus a concurrent 25-year
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  Speaker 3: prison sentence. I don't want to let you know. But
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  Speaker 3: how can you serve your concurrent sentence if you're dead? Well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they knew she might survive like she did. But
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  Speaker 3: she did try to escape in 2001. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Because what's the worst they can do to you if
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  Speaker 1: you got the death penalty and you.
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  Speaker 4: Try to escape?
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  Speaker 3: Would have made it if it had not been for
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  Speaker 3: them meddling kids.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think, Skip? What do you think? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they need to let it go. It's like traffic. It's
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  Speaker 1: like traffic court. If you show up two times. Are
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  Speaker 1: you broadcasting from a can and a string?
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  Speaker 3: No, that's the thing. It's hot in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It's hot. Welcome to Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta right now.
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  Speaker 1: Where the players play? Yeah, absolutely. They're playing with the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Turn it off. Hey, see if Jack Smith is at
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  Speaker 1: a Hawk game. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: I got to tell you this. I got to tell
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  Speaker 3: you this. So when they gave her the lethal injection,
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  Speaker 3: they said the first one, she took a little yawn.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They gave her the second one. She took a deeper
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  Speaker 3: yawn and they said she lost consciousness. But look how
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  Speaker 3: little she looks right there. You could still hear her snoring.
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  Speaker 3: So they knew she had a heartbeat. You went to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't go to sleep, sleep. She just went to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: She took a nap. But she was 18. Look at her.
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  Speaker 1: She's a little girl. She looks like a child.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the devil didn't want us, so he sent
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  Speaker 2: us back. The devil's reject. We can't use you here, Crystal.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have to go on.
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  Speaker 1: We're all for it. Beat it.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want you. We have to turn you away
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  Speaker 3: at the pearly gate.
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  Speaker 1: Turn him loose, like on Time to Kill. Turn him loose.
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  Speaker 1: You turn him loose. Back you go. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to throw this one back. It's too small.
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  Speaker 3: You got to go back across the river. What is it?
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  Speaker 6: Six.
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  Speaker 2: So the state of Tennessee... successfully tries to kill, first off.
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  Speaker 3: No, unsuccessfully.
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  Speaker 1: Unsuccessfully. So it's rare that women get to death on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very rare.
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  Speaker 7: Very rare.
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  Speaker 3: It would be the first time in 200 years.
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  Speaker 1: What did she do, actually?
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  Speaker 3: So she, along with two other teenagers, killed Colleen Summers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Colleen Slimmer is her name. But here's the
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  Speaker 3: thing about that. This is I'm not saying that this
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  Speaker 3: justifies what she did. She definitely deserved to go to
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  Speaker 3: prison for killing someone. But listen at her background. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God. So they say she suffered an almost unbearable
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  Speaker 3: abusive background. She was a victim of child sexual abuse,
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  Speaker 3: multiple rapes and parental abandonment and neglect. So she tried
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  Speaker 3: to kill herself when she was 12 years old. When
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  Speaker 3: she was 17, a stranger grabbed her by the side
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  Speaker 3: of the road, threw her down and violently raped her.
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  Speaker 3: And the police never arrested him. So she never got treatment.
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  Speaker 3: She never got support. She never got anything. But she
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  Speaker 3: did get a boyfriend. And her and that boyfriend and
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  Speaker 3: another teenager killed a girl.
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  Speaker 1: I think she should go free.
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  Speaker 3: That's horrible. So she's been abused since she was a child.
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  Speaker 3: The state failed her.
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  Speaker 4: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if she'd have killed three kids in Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 2: she'd ought to be free.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'd have let her go.
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  Speaker 2: That's a horrible childhood. Yes, and I bet she didn't
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  Speaker 2: even do the killing of her better boyfriend. She never
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  Speaker 2: had a chance.
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  Speaker 3: Probably, she never had a chance.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? The fates are telling you she
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  Speaker 1: should get another chance.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, her mother was an alcoholic and a
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  Speaker 3: drug user.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's everybody's mother's drug user.
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  Speaker 3: She suffered from seizures. She just, oh, my God. Everybody's
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  Speaker 3: mama was not an alcoholic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just saying, a lot of people who
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  Speaker 2: have these, you know, I think that's very, she never
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  Speaker 2: had a chance.
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  Speaker 3: When she was a toddler. Her grandmother's boyfriend started raping her.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now.
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  Speaker 3: When she was a toddler.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now. They gave the lethal injection a second chance.
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  Speaker 1: They should give her a second chance.
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  Speaker 2: Junior, Junior, that is very poetic. if you'll give a
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  Speaker 2: needle a check and say yeah come on man come
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  Speaker 2: on they gave it they feel.
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  Speaker 3: Bad for her when she went first of all think
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  Speaker 3: about this as a toddler that means before she could
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  Speaker 3: even really walk she was raped by her grandmother's boyfriend
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  Speaker 3: and then when she was 11 she was raped again
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  Speaker 3: by somebody who lived in a trailer in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: and the only way they found out she developed an
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  Speaker 3: infection And so the teacher, not her parents, not her grandmother,
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  Speaker 3: the teacher had to intervene.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was something like this. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 7: I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: That's horrible. And you know what?
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  Speaker 2: That state, Tennessee, is trying to get rid of her
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  Speaker 2: to cover up their failings.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They failed that girl.
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  Speaker 3: They failed her.
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  Speaker 1: And they failed trying to kill her.
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  Speaker 7: Let her.
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  Speaker 1: Turn them loose. She was born under a bad sign.
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  Speaker 3: But not only that, you suffer all of that as
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  Speaker 3: a toddler, as a child, as a preteen.
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  Speaker 1: She's never known a day of peace.
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  Speaker 3: And now, when they try to kill you, they can't.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, nah, you're going to keep going through this.
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  Speaker 1: The most peaceful sleep she ever got was that first injection.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, first one. Yeah, I'm telling you, they said she
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  Speaker 3: started snoring.
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  Speaker 1: Man, she's like, oh, this is much better than the
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  Speaker 1: nightmares I usually have.
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  Speaker 6: No idea.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even trying to be mean. I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: trying to be mean. This is really, you think I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to be mean at all. This is horrible.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Look at, she's a child.
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  Speaker 3: She's a child. Can you imagine what she was thinking?
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  Speaker 3: She looks like a 14 year old. I had to fight.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Man. That's the white sealy. Jesus Christ. Full little rapey thing.
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  Speaker 3: Girl ain't saving her.
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  Speaker 1: Man, oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: So a young woman, the state of Tennessee, tries to
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  Speaker 2: unsuccessfully give a lethal injection to a death row inmate
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  Speaker 2: and was unsuccessful two times.
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  Speaker 1: Should she go free? We're going right to the phones.
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  Speaker 8: Look, I've been a correctionist 37 years.
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  Speaker 5: Been a deputy, sergeant, and a lieutenant. Let that girl go.
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  Speaker 6: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 5: She's working with something different. Let her go. Give her
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  Speaker 5: a second chance.
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  Speaker 7: Let her live.
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  Speaker 9: Let her live, bro.
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  Speaker 5: I think she deserves it.
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  Speaker 9: God got something for her to do.
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  Speaker 5: And I never call into these shows, but I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 5: let the girl go.
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  Speaker 10: I think she's going to do right this time.
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  Speaker 5: She ain't going to bother nobody else.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know this might sound harsh, but I feel
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  Speaker 4: like that Krista Pike should have went ahead and they
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  Speaker 4: should have let her die last night because, frankly, her
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  Speaker 4: victim went through so much suffering. This girl was 17
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  Speaker 4: years old, and none of this would have happened not
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  Speaker 4: for Krista Pike. That girl was sliced, beaten, had a
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  Speaker 4: pentagram carved into her chest. Her head was smashed in.
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  Speaker 4: with asphalt. And then Crystal Pike walked around for two
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  Speaker 4: days with part of this girl's skull in her pocket.
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  Speaker 4: She had it in her pocket when she was arrested. Now,
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  Speaker 4: that's suffering. And I feel like the person that suffered
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  Speaker 4: most was this girl's mother. She's waited for 30 years
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  Speaker 4: for justice to go all the way from Florida to
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee to see this woman executed, only for her to
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  Speaker 4: go ahead and survive. She still doesn't have her daughter.
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  Speaker 4: And the people that support Krista Pike, I guarantee you,
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  Speaker 4: if they had been their daughter that went through that suffering,
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  Speaker 4: they would not want to see this woman alive.
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  Speaker 8: You know, that is interesting that they tried it twice
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  Speaker 8: and it didn't work. But I say they should not
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  Speaker 8: let her go, let her finish out her sentence, naturalized
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  Speaker 8: in prison. Or they can kill her the same way
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  Speaker 8: she killed her victim. Hey, listen, I love y'all. I
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  Speaker 8: listen every single day. Please keep doing what y'all doing.
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  Speaker 9: You know, living in the state of Tennessee, I feel like,
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  Speaker 9: you know, this situation with Crystal Pike, the way she
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  Speaker 9: murdered her victim and the girl she murdered pled for
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  Speaker 9: her life. They need to try it again. They need
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  Speaker 9: to reestablish the execution situation and try it again.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if they really looked at what she did,
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  Speaker 7: but she killed somebody, but she kept a piece of
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  Speaker 7: their skull.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: That sounds crazy to let her out. But she has
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  Speaker 7: been in there for a minute. I don't think they
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  Speaker 7: should keep her in there another 25 years. She kept
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  Speaker 7: a piece of the skull and everything, and it was
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  Speaker 7: more than her that was charged. So I don't understand
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  Speaker 7: why she was the only one that got the death penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Um, so a young woman was given the death penalty
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  Speaker 2: in Tennessee, which had happened in 230 years.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: If, if anybody's going to get the death penalty, then
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  Speaker 2: if you watch our history, I don't know how anybody
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  Speaker 2: said on that.
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  Speaker 1: You're engaged. I don't either.
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  Speaker 3: I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but they tried to unsuccessfully, uh, end her life,
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  Speaker 2: terminate her life, but were unable to, um, twice.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think she'd go free? We'll go right to
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  Speaker 1: the phones.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 11: Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: It used to be when you were sentenced to death penalty,
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  Speaker 5: If you didn't die when they tried to kill you,
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  Speaker 5: they would let you go. You could go free if
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  Speaker 5: you survive whatever they gave you. You survived through it
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  Speaker 5: and didn't die. You could go free. So I don't
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  Speaker 5: know when they changed that, but yeah. And she done
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  Speaker 5: went through it twice. There should be some lawyer standing
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  Speaker 5: up for her somewhere, man.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of unfortunate. It's kind of unique. But
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  Speaker 6: I don't think she should go free just because they
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  Speaker 6: demonstrated incompetence. I don't think them messing up absolves her
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  Speaker 6: from her murder that she did 50 years ago, however
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  Speaker 6: many years ago. But if there is a legal standard,
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  Speaker 6: just like double jeopardy for sentencing, and it applies to
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  Speaker 6: execution attempts... Then legally, then, you know, that would be fine.
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  Speaker 6: But I think that they should sue the state of Tennessee,
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  Speaker 6: whether it be her lawyer or her, you know, on
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  Speaker 6: her behalf or other people, family, either. They're liable for
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  Speaker 6: botching it up because that's what they're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't think she should just automatically go free
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  Speaker 6: unless there's some kind of legal standard. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 6: absolve her for what she did. I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: she's rehabilitated or not, but it does. You know, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of a tricky thing.
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  Speaker 10: This is a really interesting situation to me because, first
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  Speaker 10: of all, we need to stop trying to play God.
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  Speaker 10: And then also, we wait. In the United States, we
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  Speaker 10: wait so long to execute a person that they almost
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  Speaker 10: forget what they did to be executed. Like, I think
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  Speaker 10: we really need to adopt other systems from other countries,
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  Speaker 10: you know. And, like, she's resilient, apparently.
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  Speaker 4: She has built up.
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  Speaker 10: Resistance in the last 30 years being in jail. So
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  Speaker 10: kudos to that young lady. But, like I said, being seriously.
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  Speaker 7: If they did it, they've been convicted, let's.
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  Speaker 10: Do what you got to do. Eye for an eye.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up, what they talking about in the streets,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to find out. This is the D.L. Hughley Show.
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  Speaker 2: Our official street reporter, Trey Five, is asking the serious
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  Speaker 2: questions you want to know. Or maybe it ain't nothing
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  Speaker 2: you never thought of. But anyway, the streets are talking
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  Speaker 2: with Trey Five.
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  Speaker 1: What's good, y'all?
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  Speaker 3: This is Trey Five.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I here with? This is the big fish,
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Bebe, live, lit, and local. Hell yeah. We're here
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  Speaker 1: with Bebe. And Bebe, I got to ask you something.
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  Speaker 11: So for what amount of money are you going to
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  Speaker 11: hop in the cage with a chimp and fight?
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  Speaker 3: Got about $ 500, 000. I'm going to go low to keep
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  Speaker 3: it low. $ 500, 000.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going in. That's what I would do for the $.
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  Speaker 5: 500, 000.
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  Speaker 11: Is there a price tag for you that you would
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  Speaker 11: set that would make you feel okay with jumping in
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  Speaker 11: the octagon with a chimpanzee, throwing hands with a chimp?
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  Speaker 11: What is your price tag?
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  Speaker 1: There ain't no price tag for that.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen.
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  Speaker 1: What chimps can do?
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  Speaker 2: No, there ain't enough money in the world because if
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  Speaker 2: I get this figure and eat my face, then what's
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  Speaker 2: that bunny.
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  Speaker 1: Going to do?
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  Speaker 11: For how much money are you hopping in the cage
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  Speaker 11: with a chimp and throwing down?
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  Speaker 1: I would say at least $ 5 million, bro. Because I
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  Speaker 1: definitely would be retiring off that in general. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: done with chump. That's the number I set for retirement.
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  Speaker 1: So if I have $ 5 million, I'm out of here, bro.
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  Speaker 11: Is there a price that could be set For you
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  Speaker 11: to get in the ring and fight a chimpanzee.
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  Speaker 3: To fight a chimpanzee, I would say like $ 3 million.
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  Speaker 3: If it's a baby, I can win.
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  Speaker 11: But if it's a grown chimpanzee. No, like grown chimp.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe $ 10 million.
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  Speaker 8: $ 10 million?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: See, I was thinking more generational than that. I'm not
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  Speaker 11: going to lie.
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  Speaker 10: Generation.
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  Speaker 1: No, they rip off faces. Oh, see, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your answer.
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  Speaker 6: No problem.