: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...
:28:14
...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...
:28:27
...burned them alive in public squares...
:28:30
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...
:28:46
Now we have developed a device
that is the most humane of all.
:28:52
Lethal injection.
:28:54
We strap the guy up.
:28:56
We anaesthetise him with shot No.1.
Then shot No.2 implodes his lungs...
:29:01
...and shot No.3 stops his heart.
:29:05
We put him to death just like an old horse.
:29:08
His face just goes to sleep. Inside, his
organs are going through Armageddon.
:29:14
The muscles of his face
would twist and contort...
:29:16
...but, you see, shot No.1 relaxes those
muscles so we don't see any horror show.
:29:21
We don't have to taste
the blood of revenge on our lips...
:29:24
...while this human being's organs
writhe, twist, contort.
:29:30
We just sit there quietly, nod our heads,
and say "Justice has been done."
:29:38
It is six years since the brutal murders
of Hope Percy and Walter Delacroix.
:29:44
Justice is long past due.
:29:47
Matt Poncelet has had
a lengthy, thorough court review.
:29:50
A trial, a retrial for sentencin'...
:29:53
...numerous appeals to
state and federal courts...
:29:56
...and successive petitions
filed by Mr Barber.
:29:59
There has been no doubt in the court's
mind about who did the murder.