:27:03
When he was six...
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...he...
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(sobs)
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Ladies and gentlemen, let's be honest.
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You're not gonna find
many rich people on death row.
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Matthew Poncelet's here today
because he's poor.
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Didn't have money for representation,
so he took what the State gave him.
:27:36
A tax lawyer who'd never tried
a capital case before. An amateur.
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The jury selection took four hours.
The trial lasted five days.
:27:45
The lawyer raised one objection
the entire trial.
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Now, if Matthew had himself
some money...
:27:54
...well, he could have hired
a team of crackerjack lawyers.
:27:59
They would have hired top-notch
investigators, a ballistics expert...
:28:04
...a psychologist to compile
profiles of desirable jurors...
:28:08
...and you can be sure Matthew Poncelet
wouldn't be here today, before you...
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...asking for his life.
:28:20
The death penalty. It's nothing new.
Been with us for centuries.
:28:24
We've buried people alive,
lopped off their heads...
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...burned them alive in public squares...
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I wanted them to see this picture.
:28:33
In this century, we've searched...
:28:35
...for more and more humane ways
of killing people we didn't like.
:28:40
We've shot 'em with firing squads,
suffocated 'em in a gas chamber.
:28:44
But now...
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Now we have developed a device
that is the most humane of all.
:28:52
Lethal injection.
:28:54
We strap the guy up.
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We anaesthetise him with shot No.1.
Then shot No.2 implodes his lungs...