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DONKEY: Tennessee State Lawmaker Paul Sherrell Suggests 'Hanging By Tree' Death Row Penalty For Inmates · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Donkey today for Friday. March third goes to State Representative
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  Speaker 1: Paul Scherrell. Now, Paul was in a House Criminal Justice
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  Speaker 1: Committee meeting Tuesday discussing an amendment to a bill that
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  Speaker 1: would allow death row inmates to be executed with a
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  Speaker 1: firing squad. Yes, a method that is currently not allowed
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Now, needless to say, Paul Sharell, is it
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  Speaker 1: all right? He wants to death by firing squad even
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  Speaker 1: though it's clearly a method of execution that's cruel and unusual,
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  Speaker 1: all right, even in my home state of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Original County Court ruled back in December that both electrocution
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  Speaker 1: and the firing squad by lead to South Carolina constitution
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  Speaker 1: because the state constitution bars methods of execution that a
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  Speaker 1: cruel unusual are corporal, and the court found both methods
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  Speaker 1: of cruel unusual in corporal. But this is what Paul
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  Speaker 1: wants in Tennessee. Okay, this isn't all he wants. See,
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  Speaker 1: Paul is old school, all right. He was born in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen hundred and fifty nine, five years before the Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights Act of nineteen sixty four was implemented. The reason
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  Speaker 1: I'm bringing that up is because what do you think
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  Speaker 1: he was hearing as a young child in Tennessee from
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  Speaker 1: the older people around him during that time? Would you
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  Speaker 1: like to guess what do you think his father, his grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: What do you think they was instilling in young Paul's head?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they was telling him about the good
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  Speaker 1: old days when Lynchon was a public spectacle celebration of
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  Speaker 1: watch supremacy. Is shore sounds like it? Okay, because Paul
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  Speaker 1: not only wants to see death by firing squad implemented, Ye,
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  Speaker 1: add him something else to the menu. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: News Channel five Nashville for the report. Please all right,
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  Speaker 1: it's February twenty eight. Welcome to the Criminal Justice Fault Committee.
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  Speaker 1: It was a typical meeting on Capitol Hill that quickly
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  Speaker 1: turned to a very atypical topic surrounding death row inmates
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  Speaker 1: and how they're executed, the opportunity to add a firing
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  Speaker 1: squad as a method of execution, The suggestion of a
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  Speaker 1: firing squad in the wake of several failures from the
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  Speaker 1: state Department of Correction to properly follow protocol when executing
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  Speaker 1: prisoners using lethal injection, leading to questions not usually heard
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  Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Will a person be shot in the
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  Speaker 1: head or the heart? Or where will a person be shot?
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  Speaker 1: But then came the comment prompting an apology tonight. It
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  Speaker 1: came from Republican Representative Paul Sheryl from SPARTA. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: representing powers for bringing this. I think it's a very
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  Speaker 1: good ideal. Could I put amendment on lad it would
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  Speaker 1: include hanging by a tree. Also, Jesus, could I put
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  Speaker 1: it in amendment on that it would include hanging by
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  Speaker 1: a tree. Also damn seven trees bearing scrange fruit, blood
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  Speaker 1: on the leaves and blooded the root. Black bodies swinging
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  Speaker 1: in the seven breeze, scrange fruit, hanging from the polar trees,
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  Speaker 1: hanging that good old American pastime. As I said before,
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  Speaker 1: lynching was a celebration. Okay. In from eighteen eighty two
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen sixty eight, four thousand, seven hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: three lynchings occurred in the US, according to records maintained
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  Speaker 1: by NAACP, and black people were the primary victims of lynching, okay,
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  Speaker 1: seventy two percent. Seventy two percent, I repeat, seventy two
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  Speaker 1: percent of the people in lynch were black. But they
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  Speaker 1: weren't the only victims of lynching, Okay. Some white people
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  Speaker 1: were lynched for helping black people are for being anti lynching.
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  Speaker 1: And for the record, there were two hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: six lynch in Tennessee between eighteen seventy seven and nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty according to the Equal Justice Initiative. Those are not
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  Speaker 1: so fun facts, well, fun probably for people in Paul
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  Speaker 1: Sharell's family. I'm sure he was told about the good
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  Speaker 1: old days the good times they had at Lynch's, and
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  Speaker 1: he would love to bring black tradition. He would love
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  Speaker 1: to bring back tradition. Okay, well, tradition for you is
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  Speaker 1: trauma for us. Paul. Now, Paul did apologize. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to News Channel five Nashville for the report. Please tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl apologized in a statement released from the House Republican Caucus, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I regret that I used very poor judgment in voicing
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  Speaker 1: my support of a colleague's bill, and my exaggerated comments
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  Speaker 1: were intended to convey my belief that for the cruelest
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  Speaker 1: and most heinous crimes, a just society requires the death
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  Speaker 1: penalty in kind. He goes on to say, my intention
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  Speaker 1: was to express my support of families who often wait
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  Speaker 1: decades for justice. I sincerely apologize to anyone who may
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  Speaker 1: have than hurt or offended tonight. The Tennessee State Conference
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  Speaker 1: of the NAACP responded, saying, in part, Representative Cheryl's comment
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  Speaker 1: is beyond disgusting. He is celebrating a particular form of
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  Speaker 1: execution used against African Americans in Tennessee and across the nation,
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  Speaker 1: including innocent and wrongfully convicted persons. In many parts of
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  Speaker 1: the South. Lynchings took place in nearly every county as
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  Speaker 1: it exemplified racialized and anti black violence. He's just apologized
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  Speaker 1: because he said it out loud. Okay, remember about six
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  Speaker 1: years ago, maybe a little longer than that, probably a
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  Speaker 1: little longer, when President Obama was in office, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we thought we was living in a post racial America,
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  Speaker 1: and there were these conversations about old biggots dying. All right,
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  Speaker 1: some people would ask the question, some people would make
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  Speaker 1: a statement, but basically the sentiment was racism will end
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  Speaker 1: when old biggots die. I don't think anyone ever thought
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  Speaker 1: racism would disappear completely, but that it would maybe lessen
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  Speaker 1: with each generation. You know, some people, to the chagrin
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  Speaker 1: of doctor Umar, talked to more into racial racial relationships
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  Speaker 1: that popped up in the more by racial children there are,
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  Speaker 1: the more equality we would see. I never agreed with that,
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  Speaker 1: because you can be by racial, but if you present
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  Speaker 1: its black, you are indeed still not ah and some
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  Speaker 1: people thought the more people of color we see in
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  Speaker 1: positions of power, it will help to change the way
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  Speaker 1: people see race. Well, we had a black president, of
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  Speaker 1: black and Asian vice president. We got people of color
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  Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court, all throughout Congress. All I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: is it's people of color in positions of power everywhere now.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't feel racism lessening, okay at all, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you have people like Paul Cheryl in positions of
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  Speaker 1: power in their respective states. Like you know, hearing Paul
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  Speaker 1: asking to add hanging to that amendment doesn't surprise me
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  Speaker 1: in the least bit. Nope, doesn't surprise me at all,
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  Speaker 1: simply because, in the words of Thanos, as long as
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  Speaker 1: there are those that remember what was, there will always
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  Speaker 1: be those that are unable to accept what can be
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  Speaker 1: tradition for you. It's trauma for us. Please let Chelsea
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