#79: BONUS EPISODE - James Clark of Amnesty International Discusses Arkansas Executions

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jim Clemente talks with James Clark, Senior Campaigner for Death Penalty Abolition for Amnesty International, about the 8 scheduled executions to be carried out in one month. The motive for all the executions was related to expiring doses of serums for lethal injections.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add free on Amazon music.
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0:07.0	Tonight, new legal challenges could affect the state's plan to execute its remaining
0:12.2	death row inmates this week.
0:14.3	Arkansas officials say right now they are preparing to move forward.
0:19.7	Jack Jones Jr. and Marcel Williams are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow night.
0:24.4	Both have appealed the decision by district court judge Christine Baker, who denied their
0:28.7	requests to block the executions.
0:32.7	DOC director asked inmate Lee if he had any last words and she actually asked him twice
0:43.1	and he did not respond.
0:45.0	The inmates have argued that the drug medazzolam could cause complications possibly leading
0:49.4	to a botched execution, but witnesses say it appeared the execution when his planned
0:54.3	and Lee did not suffer.
0:55.8	It may appear to lose consciousness very quickly.
0:59.8	Didn't I mean within a matter of minutes his eyes closed.
1:03.8	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.
1:06.2	This is Jim Clemente, former New York City prosecutor and retired FBI profiler and writer
1:10.8	producer on CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:13.7	Lisa and Laura are out doing their thing in different parts of the world right now, but
1:18.1	I have a very special guest with me.
1:20.6	The return of James Clark from Amnesty International.
1:24.2	How you doing James?
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