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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

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So today is kind of like, I don't know if it's a branch from yesterday's show, but it's something

that was kind of, once again, ironic, I guess coincidental. I was talking to my dad about everything's been going on, and he was bringing up a few of the news stories asking me, you know, what were my thoughts?

And, of course, the topic of capital punishment came up because of this recent execution in Oklahoma in which the condemned suffered a heart attack during the botched execution.

And I told you that this is going to be happening a lot because they're not producing the drugs necessary to do these executions clean. And my father and I, and I'm not going to do this tonight, but my father and I, we didn't argue at all about whether or not he deserved it or whether or not it was cruel and unusual punishment. Those are the easy arguments, and most certainly is an area I don't want to cover tonight. But what my father did say, however, was something that I had not heard in a long

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