“When We Wake Up, It Will Be The First Time In Nearly 37 Years That We Don’t Have To Worry About Another Appeal Being Filed”
Amy & T.J.
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3.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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The family of a 1989 murder victim speaks out moments after her murderer was executed. The state of Florida put 58-year-old Mark Allen Geralds to death by lethal injection Tuesday night. Amy and T.J. discuss Geralds’ bizarre last words plus preview Thursday’s scheduled execution of a Tennessee man whose attorneys say will be the first man executed for a crime he pleaded guilty to committing. And finally, the Supreme Court is taking up a case out of Alabama, where that state is trying to execute a man two lower courts have ruled is intellectually disabled.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, December 10th. Do you have any last words? A Florida death row |
| 0:15.4 | inmate was asked that last night right before he was given a lethal injection. And this morning, people are still |
| 0:23.7 | confused about his last words. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. and |
| 0:30.2 | Roves, we have been covering a lot of executions. We hear about last words, last meals. Look, |
| 0:34.3 | we have that to talk about from last night. We have another execution coming up tomorrow night. And the Supreme Court today on this Wednesday is taking up a very |
| 0:42.4 | major execution-related case. It's been an execution year, really, it feels like, in this country. |
| 0:48.6 | Yes, and this is an execution podcast because there are three major headlines that you |
| 0:53.9 | just described to talk about right now. |
| 0:56.6 | We can begin with last night in Florida, 58-year-old Mark Allen Gerald's pronounced dead at 615 p.m. |
| 1:06.0 | Lethal injection. And there was a description of how that lethal injection went by the witnesses who were there in the room. |
| 1:13.5 | They said that he took about a dozen deep breaths. |
| 1:17.3 | They say his body quivered and twitched. |
| 1:19.7 | But within three to four minutes, he was still and pronounced dead a few moments later. |
| 1:25.8 | But it was before that all took place, his last |
| 1:28.7 | words that got a lot of attention from folks. Of course, he was asked it. He addressed someone by |
| 1:36.0 | name, but the name was not discernible. It was an audible. They didn't know who he said. |
| 1:42.1 | But after he said this person's name, he went on to say, I'm sorry that I missed you. I loved you every day. That left a lot of head scratching. And here we are. We don't know who he was talking to and what he was talking about. Really, it's the last words he'll ever have. Maybe somebody will come out and explain and who he was talking to. Maybe that person was in the room and they'll tell us, but so far, no. And it was interesting as far as who came up and who showed up. Look, |
| 2:08.1 | this is a crime that happened in 1989. And the victim in this case, her name was Tressa Pettybone. |
| 2:15.8 | But the state said that eight people on behalf of Tressa were there for that execution, to witness that execution. |
| 2:24.3 | That is fairly unheard of at this point, but it just went to show the gravity of the situation. |
| 2:30.5 | In fact, her family gave a statement following the death of her murderer. And a lot of times |
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