of a hawk as the republicans are that are running. and let s move over to hillary clinton, adding on to her team and the speculation of when she can announce. and we know our former colleague here has been hired and so it seems we are waiting for the announcement. and we have no confirmation. but the smart money is that it will happen this month. and one of the reasons we re seeing so presidential announcements in april, the full-fledged i m running or the committee paperwork, is people want to raise the money. if you are a hillary clinton or a marco rubio, you want to raise upwards of a billion dollars and to do that you need to get the paperwork started early and raising the money. but it is no surprise if people are following politics, hillary clinton is running and people are working on a volunteer basis but that operation is coming in
avoided. that s the concern right now with the lethal injection drugs. you re going to have a spectacle regardless if it s firing squad, lethal injection, challenges based on the constitutionality of the cocktails. that gives the backup plan until we have an approved method to do that. i want to go back to something you said a moment ago to make sure i understand. the volunteer basis of this the police officers you say who investigated the original crime, or the people who are given the first opportunity to join the ranks of those who will pull the trigger on the firing squad? it s the jurisdiction that the crime happened in. it could be the investigators, it could be anybody in that jurisdiction has the first option for the firing squad. what s the rationale there? it s closure, i think, for that jurisdiction. whin justice is dealt out, somebody needs to do it and it gives those guys the option to do that. do you think there s some kind of psychological closure that comes wi
for some people, it matters, for some people it doesn t. you mean for the people that are actually on the firing squad. pulling the trigger. yes. for their psychological health or conscience, they can tell themselves they were not the ones that meted out death to this person? right. if there s a tern, you have to realize, too, this is a volunteer basis. based on the jurisdiction that investigated the murder in the first place, and it goes out regionally. you talked several times, i ve seen several interviews you ve done that this is a basically backup as utah like many states has run out of the chemicals for the lethal injection. there is another option, you cannot execute people. this bill wasn t that option. that s a discussion that i m sure we ll have in the near future. i m okay having that discussion. but for what we have right now, this is the legislation that needed to come forward. are you confident that utah and other states can avoid the kind of grisly, ho
yes. for their psychological health or conscience, they can tell themselves they were not the ones that meted out death to this person? right. if there s a tern you have to realize, too this is a volunteer basis. based on the jurisdiction that investigated the murder in the first place, and it goes out regionally. you talked several times, i ve seen several interviews you ve done that this is a basically backup as utah like many states has run out of the chemicals for the lethal injection. there is another option you cannot execute people. this bill wasn t that option. that s a discussion that i m sure we ll have in the near future. i m okay having that discussion. but for what we have right now, this is the legislation that needed to come forward. are you confident that utah and other states can avoid the kind of grisly horrific spectacle that we have seen in oklahoma and arizona as these drugs become more and more scarce? you know, with the firing squad, obviously that
listen, before we go, we re running out of time but i just want to know you that do this voluntarily. yeah, this is a volunteer ambulance corps. we don t get paid. as a matter of fact, if we had another ambulance we would have had both of the people. we do it on a volunteer basis. we depend on donations to keep us running. we only had one ambulance because we didn t have insurance for the other ambulance. you know, otherwise, we would have had both cops off the scene there in less than two minutes. so if people want to help you out is there a website? is there a fund? yeah. please go to b as in boy, s as in sam, v as in victor a as in apple c as in charlie dot org and donate to save a life. thank you. we save lives all over the world. and we thank you for it. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. and let s show our guys here off screen. he with wanted to make sure everyone got on camera. because we know that you all are heroes. thank you this evening fr