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Welcome everyone to this episode of Amy and T.J.

We are used to sometimes getting a final sentence, a few final words from inmates as they are about to be executed.

But yesterday, we got apologies, apologies, apologies, paragraphs truly of one inmate's final

words, 51-year-old Cedric Ricks, who was pronounced dead last night just before 7 p.m., wanted

to make his amends before he died by lethal injection without everyone.

Welcome to this episode. It is Thursday, March 12th, and we have covered a lot of executions,

babe, over this past year because there just, frankly, have been so many. Each one is unique and each one,

I feel like there is a takeaway, but this one was especially compelling. This is one we wanted

to skip over. To be honest with you all, we cover a lot of these and some of them have intriguing

stories that come up about the person, condemned persons, guilt or innocence.

There are questions, even if it's not about the guilt or innocence, sometimes Robs, the question

is just about if they got a fair trial or their mental capacity, or should you be executing

someone this old or this sick. There's usually some kind of humanitarian effort that is

a tie to these executions that sometimes make for compelling

stories behind the scenes. This is not one where people were rallying support around him because

of, hey, he needs a break or, hey, he was coerced or, hey, it was something. No, no, no, this was a

heinous, heinous, horrible crime

to the point we were almost going to just bypass this. And like, this is a tough one. We'll just

say there was an execution and move on. But turns out this is now one of the more compelling

moments we have seen in the past year of covering what was an extraordinary year

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