you might know. right now the texas state attorney general. greg abbott s office in texas repeatedly ruled the open public records law means the state has to disclose how texas kills its prisoners. the drugs they use. where the drugs come from, et cetera. texas like other states has had trouble getting the drugs that it wants to use for executions because the companies that sell the drugs don t want them used in executions. the texas prison system is therefore turned to compounding pharmacies to make them batches of drugs. the texas prison system is being sued by death row prisoners who wants to know who is making the drugs, how they re being made. tomorrow, the office will give the ruling on whether or not the prison system is allowed to keep secret about the drugs or tell the public in the past. but also, in the past year, greg abbt hott has taken huge donati from a guy who runs pakz fcs.
the aclu. help folks to understand what precisely is happening in this case? the four former death row prisoners who received relief under the racial justice act, the judge found that in their cases and in their counties, in their communities and statewide there s rampant racial discrimination in jury selection by prosecutors, including race-based note taking and details about different jurors that was not information that was used against black jurors to strike black jurors that was not used against similarly situated white jurors as well as things like trainings that the prosecutors had undertaken and provided to each other, curriculum about bypassing and avoiding application of the constitutional law that forbids
that was based on this three-drug cocktail which we are not now using. does that mean there s a way to challenge it? absolutely. states that are currently engaged in executing their death row prisoners are engaging in human experimentation at this point using compounded drugs that are mixed in secrecy by shadow pharmacies. we have a real problem. we have all kinds of botched executions resulting. the prisoners who are facing execution now are appealing to the supreme court to be reviewed. tell me why we should care. when we look as cross the world at the map of countries that still execute citizens, we find ourselves in a group that we might not normally want to be in when you look at the other countries that still execute people. yet when you talk to many ordinary americans, if i say, you know, this may be a painful drug, it takes 25 minutes.
death row for 12 years but released and pardoned after somebody else confessed. florida leads the nation in exonerating death row prisoners. going back and saying we know we ve been planning to kill you, but now we believe you are innocent. good thing we didn t go too fast. florida is number one in that in the nation. it s not just the total number of exonerations that makes florida so impressive. for every three prisoners florida has killed, florida has said to another prisoner, actually, we messed up in your case. 3-1. for every three they have killed, they have said to one, we messed up in your case, you are free to go, good thing we didn t go too fast. since the supreme court cleared the way for states to begin executing prisoners again in 1976, florida governors have been executing prisoners at an average rate of about two a year. that has not been fast enough, though, for florida s current governor, rick scott. he s been going twice that fast. eight times since he took office in
mr. keaton is from florida. he was convicted in 1971 of murdering an off-duty sheriff and he was sentenced to death. but he was not executed. he was actually released two years later when the real murderer got convicted. david keaton did not do it. after the exoneration of david keaton, the next two death row exonerations in america were also from florida. wilbert lee and freddy pitts on death row for 12 years but released and pardoned after somebody else confessed. florida leads the nation in exonerating death row prisoners. going back and saying we know we ve been planning to kill you, but now we believe you are innocent. good thing we didn t go too fast. florida is number one in that in the nation. it s not just the total number of exonerations that makes florida so impressive. for every three prisoners florida has killed, florida has said to another prisoner, actually, we messed up in your case. 3-1. for every three they have killed, they have said to one, we messed up in your case