Rickey Ray Rector (Episode 227)
Black True Crime Podcast
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4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
n 2002, the US Supreme court ruled that executing people with intellectual disabilities is unconstitutional. This was a FEDERAL ruling, which means that all states have to abide by this law. There was a similar law passed in the state of Alabama in 1986, where today’s case takes place. But unfortunately, Governor Bill Clinton and the Alabama judges at the time decided to take the law into their own hands and enact their own type of justice…
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| 0:00.0 | Black Tree Crime is a podcast that researches and discusses murders committed by Black offenders. |
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| 0:39.9 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm Kayla. |
| 0:42.1 | And I'm Nikki. |
| 0:43.1 | And this is Black True Crime. |
| 0:46.5 | All day long. |
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| 0:52.2 | Hello and welcome, friend. |
| 0:53.5 | Come on in and have a seat we're here at episode |
| 0:56.7 | 227 227 mm-hmm and today's case wasn't recommended by a listener but it stuck out to me when I was |
| 1:07.5 | looking up all these cases at the beginning when I first started a black true crime I just forgot to do it all this time. So we're going to do it today. |
| 1:16.2 | Wow. I have something to say before we get started. Okay. Listen here, friends. And listen good. |
| 1:24.9 | I didn't kill Al Roker. |
| 1:29.5 | A-I did. |
| 1:32.6 | A-I-Q-A-L. |
| 1:33.8 | I didn't. |
| 1:35.0 | I just read the article. |
| 1:41.0 | And just because I don't know the difference between yet because y'all want all these robots to take over everything. |
| 1:42.8 | It ain't my fault. |
| 2:01.1 | But I'm glad he's alive and well. Yes, we are. Because he loved his granddaughter and he lost all that weight so he can be around to play with her and all that jazz. Yeah, for 30 more years. All right. So y'all did your research and y'all just come in and coming and? Okay, so it's made a mistake. But it wasn't me. It was AI. |
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