Just wanted to point out that Judge Alex Kozinski had another interview with CBS in 2015 where the same discussion was held. He made a very effective point that has stuck with me ever since I first saw it. It went as follows: Alex Kozinski: I would eliminate the entire controversy. I would use a bullet or a series of bullets. They're fast. They're effective. Nobody ever survives. Bill Whitaker: Go back to the firing squad? Alex Kozinski: Make it look like an execution. Mutilate the body. And this would express the sense of that's what you're doing, that we're actually committing violence on another human being. Bill Whitaker: I read that you have even thought the guillotine might be a good way to execute. Alex Kozinski: Oh, yes. Bill Whitaker: Really? Alex Kozinski: The guillotine works. Never fails. It's quick. It's effective. Bill Whitaker: You do know what that sounds like, hearing a judge sort of be an advocate for the guillotine? Alex Kozinski: Tell me. Bill Whitaker: Barbaric. Alex Kozinski: The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.
You know what, that guy at 16:16 has a point. If you're going to be in favour of the death penalty, you shouldn't suddenly get weird about the method. An injection might be more sterile/clinical for the audience, but as was discussed, it's (potentially) absolutely horrendous for the person it's applied to. Bullet(s) to the brain or decapitation is rather foolproof. What it really comes down to is that a guillotine or a firing squad reminds people to clearly of what a barbaric punishment it _actually_ is. And they'd rather pretend it's not.
Clinically I'm against the death penalty for many solid reasons. Assuming the crime has been %100 proven guilty and I take the time to learn about the crimes these sub human monsters have done I can't feel bad about any agony they may go through even when I'd be disgusted by it otherwise. I just can't. You try. Take Clayton Lockett. Kidnapped, raped and buried alive a teenage girl. His suffering brings me joy.
@@apathyguy8338 Yes in a perfect world we would have 100% proof that the people being executed are completely guilty of these horrific crimes. Even if that were the case which it absolutely isn't, It's about not becoming the people that they are. I understand your logic and you have every right to have no empathy for someone like Clayton Lockett ( I'm not dismissing or saying your opinion is wrong in any way) but in my personal opinion we need to be better than the people we say are monsters.
@@someguy1141 As I said on a fundamental level I'm against the death penalty and would vote against it given opportunity for many reasons. But when someone like that suffers I find it cathartic if not enjoyable. So I can't get angry about it and therefor I can connect emotionally with those that want it. I only bring it up to try to better understand my own duality. Also they could have found a better example. Yes working from home may have hindered that for them.
@@Jordan-Ramses but you can at least treat your prisoners in a humane way, which is proven to reduce violence in prison and the rate of convicts commiting further crimes after being release. and last but not least, treating them like people and not like human garbage, which most prisoners are not, is the civilized thing to do.
@@likealightning4139 - I never said you couldn't treat prisoners humanely. So i don't even know why you are saying that. Are you able to understand the words that i am typing? I pointed out that prisons are bad primarily because they are full of criminals. If a prison was too nice i would be very worried.
@@jaredzambelli2824 Except abortions ARE a medical procedure and the vast majority of late term abortions are done because something is either entirely unviable with the fetus (as in it is either already pretty much dead or it won't survive for more than a few days out of the womb, if you're lucky) or the health of the pregnant person is in danger.
@@jaredzambelli2824 The thing about late term abortions is that they account for less than 1% of abortions and are only performed when absolutely necessary (for the health of the mother or the baby being born with a defect that severely limits their ability to survive outside of the whom past infancy). Although abortions are legal, medical professionals have the right to refuse performing them. No medical professional would perform a late term abortion because an irresponsible woman decided she didn't want to be a mother at the last minute. Please do research, find me a case where this has happened and prove me wrong. I'd love to see it.
The subject of the episode aside, John was really popping in this one. He landed everything with just the right amount of energy and timing. Great episode.
With a small exception of ommiting the questions: Was Sodium Thiopental working as full anesthetic (the video seems to suggest so)? And if it was: who was the idiot who made using it illegal and for what reason?
@@surveysays8335 lol it uses a similar style of humor but it is far from having that be the case. His humor is based on a similar system most talk shows go with but specialized to him naturally.
@@anonamous365 lol this isn't propaganda and it does say something that is very true. It is bullshit as it currently stands and if you use humane execution as a reason for supporting the death penalty, it is invalid upon scrutiny.
One thing that nobody ever seems to bring up when discussing the death penalty is that the estimated wrongful conviction rate in the US is between 2-10%
This is the only reason I do not support the death penalty. I strongly believe that those individuals who commit the most depraved crimes like mass murder or sexual assault on children should be killed. They are animals who will never change and as far as I’m concerned they are just a waste of space inside a prison and should have their lives ended as soon as they are found guilty. However, I believe that one single innocent person being put to death is unacceptable. Given that this happens I cannot support the death penalty. In a perfect world where no one was wrongly convicted I would strongly advocate for putting those sick individuals to death so they don’t waste anymore space on this earth. Unfortunately our world and especially the United States justice system is far from perfect
@@joshwilner5622 haha yeah 30 minutes after i made that comment i saw some people talk about it and realized that he was gonna try to kill Cersei. Hell yeah!!!
The talk about that feeling of being unable to communicate the fact that you're still aware of what's going on hits a little close to home with me. When I got my wisdom teeth removed, I was put under general anesthesia, where they ask you to count up to 20, and before you finish you're unconscious, but the time right before I went under was awful. I couldn't move my body, but was aware of who was around me. I felt like I was floating in the air, spinning slowly and unable to breathe. My last thought was that I genuinely wasn't going to wake up. I know that that is incomparable to what lethal injections are like, but hearing about that being forced onto someone, criminal or not, just doesn't sit right with me.
@The Last Hair Bender Not really? I was panicking and my lungs felt like they didn't have enough oxygen, but it only really lasted for no more than 2 seconds before I went under.
I had quite a similar experience with my first two wisdom teeth when the anesthesia around them wouldn't work. And while I was in horrible pain but could not clearly talk, the dentist just told me to shut up and keep still.
LOL! As they finished the questions, I was like, clearly, these questions should have been asked in reverse. Starting with the 'have you done or been involved in any anesthetic research?' should have been closer to the starting point. But admittedly, after all of that, I would have also asked, when, if ever, was the last time you were in a research lab?
I wrote a college paper on this about a year ago and it was one of the most eye-opening things I've researched. The ineffectiveness, failure rate, and cost were mind-blowing when I first saw the stats.
Is taking someone off the street and locking them in a cage for years against their will wrong? Yes? Well then, we'd better not lock someone who locked someone in a cage in a cage.
...Except, of course, that they weren't honest. They omitted certain information that made their claims problematic. They didn't mention that the shift in what drugs are used in lethal injection drugs has been because of boycotts and public pressure put on manufacturers of drugs to get them to stop (See www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/27/supreme-court-death-penalty-case-focuses-on-lethal-injection-drug). They also overstate what the 4% study they quoted actually did, which was come up with a way to "estimate" what the innocent rate might be - specifically, their premise is "Because some people sentenced to death are exonerated on appeal BEFORE execution, there MUST be people who are are innocent but not exonerated." They make this as their premise but then dismiss the fact that NONE of the inmates in their sample were exonerated post-execution. See www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230 for the study and check it out for yourself. Don't kid yourself. This is a comedy show plugging a view they think the majority of their audience wants to hear. You can be entertained, that's fine, and some of the points they make are valid... but don't think watching a comedy show will give you an honest understanding of an issue.
@@TacticsFanatic Fair point. The study didn't say any innocent people had been executed. But I would argue that the fact that innocent people had still been sentenced to death (even if they didn't actually die) is frightful.
But by that, he saved us, and he foretold it would be happening anyway, so it was ... kinda okay? :headdesk: I mean, I'm a Christian, but that is some fucked up shit.
@Ultimate Despair Gamer, actually, Jesus’ execution, and accusations, were politically motivated by the Pharisees, relying heavily on interpretation. His “crimes” were heresy and blasphemy, in which they said he was perverting and speaking against Jewish law. In actuality, Jesus interpreted Jewish law to mean something different than the Pharisees, and his interpretation was becoming more popular with the people. Fearing he was becoming too powerful, they lobbied Pontius Pilot to execute him, mockingly calling him King of the Jews, a title that could have been seen as a threat to Rome. It’s the modern day equivalent of imprisoning a journalist for reporting things you don’t like as a political dissident, like Jamal Kashoggi.
@@leylasmith7179 No they weren't. He was killed by the Romans and his followers changed the story later when they were trying to convert Romans. Cue 1000s of years of anti-semitism. If Jesus did exist (which there is no evidence of outside of a bunch of magical stories written 100s of years after his death), he was just a guy who started a failed revolution.
@@apathyguy8338 actually it is historically incorrect to say Jesus didn't exist, and just as ignorant as saying Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar didn't exist. Just because you're not a Christian doesn't mean you have to resort to spreading around lies about it. Well, your name has the word apathy, so that explains why you don't care about historical truth.
@@ulisesdominguez7540 Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar have an overwhelming amount of contemporary evidence that denial of them is tantamount to claiming Lincoln didn't exist. Seeing as the Bible is a self contradictory mess written from oral tradition compiled between 60 and 200 years after his hypothetical death it can't be considered to be a historical document by anyone claiming to be rational. Why not use the Odyssey as historical proof of Sirens and witches. Add to that there's not a single piece of contemporary correlation has ever been discovered. You truly need to educate yourself on the facts without allowing your desired beliefs to take control of your cognition.
@@blixer8384 I never placed divinity in my statement and have no idea why you did. At the end of the day no evidence as to his existing has ever been found. Sure you can believe if you want and no one prove he didn't live but we have better evidence that Bigfoot is living in Montana than if Jesus was real.
Shouldnt the argument "Whoopsie, we might have just killed the son of god" be used against the death penalty? This really doesnt sound like a thing you want to do twice.
If we did, wouldn't he just get back up again after a few days? if anything we should keep all the bodies around to see if any get back up. OK aside from how horrible my previous statement was I am currently against the death penalty due to cost and that we currently are at a 4% error rate.... should those two things change in the future I will reevaluate my stance.
cornskid How about the courage not to give into the first base instinct to kill based on anger and hatred? The courage to want to be better than the people we convict? And maybe try and help them be better as opposed to just deeming all prisoners lost causes?
Last year I wrote a term paper about lethal injection in Texas after seeing your show about death penalty. Anyway I just want to thank you guys for all the research and time you put into every show. Keep up the amazing work Regards from Germany
Had to come back to watch this episode after the bomb he dropped tonight on 4/7/24. Over 4 years later and it's gotten worse. I appreciate the work John and his crew do to make a real impactful change in this world.
He made the best point right off the bat. 4% executed are eventually found to be innocent. The state executing one innocent person is already too many.
if they were innocent then how the hell were they convicted and not have their case dismissed shortly after?? some cases have been proven to be incorrect I get that but come on man you wouldn't be there for no reason....
@@GHustle4 Hm. Sheriff wants to be judge, Deputy wants to be Sheriff - policy of the hard hand gets votes - so let us lead this poor bloke to sign a confession... Or more generally - if some terrible crime is commited, the only way to appease the public is to present a perpretator, convict and sentence him. It's secondary if the convicted one is the right one. That happens, if 'retaliation' becomes part of the legal process.
@@GHustle4 You are kidding right? Do you know how many people confess to crimes they didn't commit? This targets black people most of all. They are lied to by the police, told if they confess, they'll get to go home faster. And this is just one of the MANY issues in our justice system. Yes, some people are put there for other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or looking "similar" to the actual criminal. 1 innocent person being killed by state should be enough of a reason for this not to happen.
@@GHustle4 - Because our justice system rewards the prosecution for numbers of convictions. It rewards the enforcement personnel based on arrests. The system is stacked AGAINST the defendant. Being innocent is immaterial to the system. Exculpatory evidence is non-admissible in most cases (that's evidence that PROVES innocence.) There are stacks and stacks of cases of enforcement planting evidence and lying so they can arrest, and of prosecution suppressing evidence that would exonerate or lead a jury to a non-guilty verdict. The majority of such cases are NOT highly publicized. In fact, the media is often forbidden to reveal such details by court orders and laws, even if they get the information in the first place. Our justice system in the US is supposed to be based on the assumption of innocence, yet every thing that has been put in place since the late 1800s has eaten away at that assumption. Unbalanced funding which favors prosecution, laws which prevent the presenting and admissibility of exculpatory evidence, plea-bargaining, and more. The prosecution will do all kinds of things to extort a plea-bargain. It saves them having to actually go to trial, counts as a conviction, and the accused effectively loses most rights of appeal. You really should research what actually goes on in how the accused and convicted are treated in our justice system. It's quite reprehensible.
M. Miel But isn’t life imprisonment, or extended sentences (sentences meant to extend beyond how long a person could reasonably live, such as when people get 200 years for various combined crimes) just a realllllly slow death sentence? And how do you think most people serving life/extendeds die? They get sick, then suffer, and then die. It’s not very common for lifers to just die peacefully in their sleep or anything like that. Bodies should rot in the ground, not in a cell.
@@ZacksRockingLifestyle - The same could be said of people living outside of prison. Most people do not die in their sleep. They get sick, they suffer while medical staff work to keep them alive, and then they suffocate. That doesn't mean we should just blow up the earth and get all our deaths over with.
Really because I think it's bullshit. There is a difference between murder and punishment. It's an important distinction that John ignores here. Like covering how Lockett died but not the grisly details of his crime. He kidnapped, beat, and shot, a teenage girl before he buried her alive. He was a monster but we are bad people because he suffered when he paid for his crime...
@@TheZeroNeonix what he meany was if death penalty is bad so is life sentence. how can you put human in cage for life? there should not be life sentence to anyone.
@@GibDozer1 yeah when i looked that up I was kinda glad that he suffered as much as he did before he died. These people don't deserve sympathy. Or mercy. They're not even humans. At best rabid animals that need to be put down, at worse demons from the pits of hell made flesh. I'm never going to be moved by the "we're better than this" argument. Everyone is better off pointing out how innocent people are sentenced to death. That alone is the reason I support abolishing the death penalty.
The most humane death penalty is anesthesia. Supply enough anesthesia so the prisoner passes out then keep applying it until their heart stops. Humane, works without torturing the convicted and is lethal. However no anesthesiologist would do that. For obvious reasons.
And also as it turns out is actually *really* hard to do to a healthy person, and would require a downright Keith Moon level of drugs to do. Hardly cost effective - among its other issues. And all that assumes it 'goes right'.
Again, that also doesn’t get around the fact that how do you know without doubt that the person you’re killing is actually guilty. At least if you are in jail for life you can be released with new evidence, yes you can’t get your life back, but you haven’t been murdered by the state. America is one of those countries that spends more time working out nice pleasant ways to kill people rather than working out, why they have such a problem with fucking crime and homicide in the first place
That would effectively kill most people quickly... But most isn't all. Human beings can be remarkably difficult to kill, and we don't respond reliably to medication. A firing squad is more reliable, but I'm sure if we use it enough times we will find a horrifying example of what a man can survive. Of course blood loss will always get you eventually. My dad came very close to dying from blood loss, he said that part was surprisingly peaceful. It's still a horrible and inhumane thing to do to a restrained human being.
Honestly, I disagree. As people pointed out, it won't always work, and definitely not quickly or smoothly. As the guy said, the guillotine is the closest to humane this practice can get. It's instant, painless, and cannot fail to kill. The only reason it's not done is as almost everyone involved in this episode said - it's all a show. We want to still kill people, but we want to pretend it can be some gentle, bloodless thing.
I think it’s to hit the point home. Then in court you can show that they admitted to not researching any of the drugs in question. In court the lawyer could argue “well you didn’t ask my client specifically about XYZ. He misunderstood the question.”
shaun did a really good video on the death penalty and I like the way he framed it. He framed it as "Lets assume that there are some crimes where killing someone is objectively the right thing to do, I'm not going to argue with you on that, lets just assume its true. The government still shouldn't be able to do it."
@@Nimish204 dont really need to make it make sense also two things can be wrong at once. Also "scum of the earth" is assuming alot. The justice system gets things wrong all the fucking time, literally all the fucking time, and sometimes they get it INSANELY wrong whether its police misconduct, investigation laziness, prosecutorial misconduct so on and so forth. The thing is, its cheaper for tax payers to not use the death penalty and if a man is exonerated you can release him from prison. If he's exonerated you cant bring him back from the dead.
Yeah, you could tell last week that this week was going to be something serious, but at least John Oliver can put a humorous, if disturbing, spin on it.
Some interesting bit of useless knowledge: the jewish bible describes a punishment (that was never used) given to children that are rebellious, useless, and only eat and drink (alcohol) all day. The parents would bring the child to the city elders, and then the child would be stoned to death in the city square. Anyway, Chazal decided that in any case this punishment would ever be administrated, the parents should be the ones to throw the first stone, and it wasn't used once in jewish history.
„Lethal injection [or execution in general for that matter] isn’t about who they [the prisoners] are, it’s about who we [the people] are.” I think this is the core of the debate. This is what we should be talking about.
No, that's wrong. It's a punishment. Punishment is about the person receiving it, not the person(s) involved in doling it out. And just to clarify, this is who Clayton Lockett was: archive.is/20140501035701/docapp065p.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_pageid=394&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&doc_num=206409&offender_book_id=98755 Now that you've seen the clinical statements of fact of what he was convicted for, go read a few news articles detailing exactly how horrendous those acts were.
F C I personally think Society as a whole deserves that “revenge” when it comes to certain High crimes. There’s something about killing the worst among us that we can PROVE without a shadow of a doubt did it, that gives the populace a sense of peace.
@@AlexAnder-rv1gu Fair enough. What do you think it was that lead him to become the way he was? And do we meet brutality with more brutality? Murder is wrong, no matter who does it.
@@Mnecrafter99 Does the revenge actually provide us with relief or a sense of well being? I don't get either of those things from any executions, and I don't want the revenge. I'd rather see people locked away to rot than to pay more to kill them, though actually both seem cruel to me.
I came here after another person's DNA was found on the weapon supposedly used by Ledell Lee to commit murder. He was put to death 4 years ago, insisting he was innocent. Sadly, I think this video is often relevant, if you live in the US.
I live in Alabama and anyone who disagrees that we are objectively the worst state is lying to themselves. The fact we execute the most people is just the cherry on top of the cake of shit and rot.
Very portentous...it would look nice on a poster, but doesn't really say much or add anything constructive to the dialogue. At least that's how *_I_* see it...
Saying it for emphasis: Should never be operated for profit: 1. Healthcare 2. Prisons/Jails 3. Education Corresponds exactly with: 1. Life 2. Liberty 3. Pursuit of happiness
"Gif" means poison in Dutch. We usually say; 'I'll send you a gifje' (little gif) instead of 'I'll send you a gif' because nobody says 'little poison/gifje" about poison. That's how you clarify it's not a threat and you're just about to send a moving picture of a cat.
There have been recorded accounts of severing the vocal chords of dogs during experiments so that the sounds of pain and desperation would not bother the scientists. Lethal injection is the same thing.
@@mandre2390 My dog’s reluctance to get off his doggy butt disagrees with you. As does his general eagerness to please and his constant asking for our food. (Mom is eating yogurt? He’ll stare like “do I get some?” Yes! You can lick it out when she’s done!)
One of those things that I should have seen coming but didn't. And it made it that much better. It hit me right as John said "Then I guess you're arguing...."
oh, that's interesting. in german we also have the term 'Mitgift' (although it's old fashioned), which is the present/gift/payment or just the household objects (like tableware) a bride brings into a marriage.
Oh my God. When he said "this is the most lethal thing to come out of a British driving school..." I thought he was going to say "since the Paparazzi."
John needs to apologise to his mom... And his dad... Imagine the neighbours talking to Mrs Oliver, "oh! I watch your son on telly last night. Did you know he was thinking of snogging you?"
I recently had a medical procedure that involved being given an intravenous cocktail of fentanyl and midazolam. I can tell you, with complete confidence, that midazolam is not enough if you're planning to take a life. I was STILL CONSCIOUS while having the procedure performed and while it was a nice, mellowed high, it is not an anaesthetic. Your inmates will likely be awake, conscious, and able to feel basically everything going on to their bodies.
The last person who really tried to make executions more humane (for the person being executed) was Dr. Guillotin. Every other innovation since has been about making the audience more comfortable.
Yeah. If ethics in Medicine didn't exist (or if they trained those executioners and then subsequently brought proper anesthesia), then... Oh wait. While they'd have actual doctors doing it, without ethics, anesthesia wouldn't exist. God d**n it! Well, it _is_ immoral, so I guess it makes sense that its part of the majority that can't be completely humane and more inhumane...
Indeed, if people are comfortable killing people, they should have the decency to tolerate blood on their hands. The guillotine is one of the most humane execution method.
Guillotines failed in terribly gross ways (blade got stuck midway through the neck and stuff). Because of this, Victor Hugo was actively against them (and death penalty in general)
I'm proud to be a Queenslander from Australia which was one of the first jurisdictions that banned capital punishment. No matter how you look at it killing is wrong and two wrongs never make a right. Even worse if an innocent person wrongfully convicted is executed, who should shoulder the blame?
I think John really undersold that last point on capital punishment. Four percent. FOUR. PERCENT. The fact that a single innocent person has been killed by the prison system should be reason enough to throw the whole process out altogether.
Not to at least half the public, which is shameful. Wonder what they would think if they or their family members were wrongfully killed. After all it's just "collateral damage".
Right... because the victims of the other 96% doesn't matter, right... They named a guy in the episode... wonder why they didn't touch on what he did...
@@CZ57-Avenger_ let me try to get this right. You think it's fair that innocent people who are victims of crimes have their perpetrators punished at the expense of other innocent people who are convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit? That's a fair legal system to you?
@@CZ57-Avenger_ it doesn't matter what he did. The eighth amendment details why this is wrong and illegal. You want to have a legal or moral argument on the death penalty in general fine, but torture? I think torture is still against the law last I checked
@@stephan2053 No, I just think you cant settle an argument based on the exception. You see 4% innocent, well, I see 96% murderers rightfully convicted with room to improve. And frankly I even doubt this numbers... John sure knows how to toy with narratives when is convenient. We do euthanasias all the time... animals and people... the right process is known. If the legal system has flaws we need to improve it, not throw it through the window. Just saying... you don't get a capital sentence for silly things... that guy ruined some innocent lives forever.
@@basmca1 I believe this individual has discovered the political bias rather than neutrality of this show. It has become more apparent as of late and has many viewers rejecting it. The political leanings he appeal to are vocal in their support, but not so incredibly large in number and as such you see him receiving much more criticism and there's a lot more fighting in the comments.
The way I see it, if there is any chance, whatsoever, that you may end up executing an innocent person, then the death penalty is off the table full stop. Now, because there is always a margin for error in conviction, that means the death penalty should be completely outlawed.
There’s cases where I think it’s 100%, absolutely the thing to do, and the person is clearly guilty of what they did. The problem is, I don’t trust anyone in government to properly draw that line.
I'm fine with being the kind of human being who accepts and agrees that child-molesters, sexual-assaulters, etc. should suffer for the same abuse they suffered at the end of the defenseless. Let me make this clear, while it cannot be guaranteed
I've had Midazolam used on me before you can still feel everything you're still conscious and aware you might fall asleep just because your tired but not because you've been knocked out.
Headass have you used it before and I used midazolam before for a different purpose than being executed so it probably was a smaller dose but I am just speaking from experience. Fucking boomer boy
@Epic there a big difference between 'passing out' and falling asleep, granted whenever I've had its been in stressful situations I've never fallen asleep from it. Passing out/ being rendered unconscious isn't something it does.
If we can use hydraulic presses to process huge pieces of metal at a highly capitalistic rate I'm pretty sure we can lob some heads off in many pieces pretty efficiently and humanely. Might not be pretty, but very humanely.
Vasilis Mich really I was thinking of Harry Fucking Potter, but your transparent attempt to appear more intelligent than you actually are by naming a dead person is duly noted.
Id seriously feel 100% better about the death penalty if , those in favor of it, did not refer to it as "justice". Firstly, the person who was unjustly killed, is dead. Secondly, lets stop calling it "justice", when the entire point of putting the murders to death is all about revenge. Revenge is not "justice", again, because the one who actually died is dead. Its simply revenge, so lets call it what it is.
applejuicejunkie316 because He is innocent and pure and definitely shouldn’t have had to die because we fucked up? a day in hell is an insane price to pay for us; just because it was good doesn’t mean it wasn’t sad
Wasn’t it technically 3 days and a far quicker death than any of the other victims as in John wasn’t pilot (fuck the spelling) surprised that he died before the sabbath when the Jews wanted the break the victims legs to bring about the auto erotic (is that right or just autocorrect) asphyxiation that usually kills them
Just cuz sympathizing with murderers is difficult, doesn't mean anyone should have the power to kill someone. Murder should not be allowed, period. Killing murderers, does not make us better people than them. And many evil acts are results of mental illness and/or trauma, so some people just aren't stable enough to be considered responsible for their actions. Recognizing such signs and preventing incidents is what the focus should be on. Protecting the lives of innocents. Not killing more people.
@CommandoDude soooooo............ Gotta wonder exactly what ya mean by that. Just what the hell're you trying to say?!?? Because *I'd* rather see some piece of shit rapist go through _all_ of what J.O. described than have *_even one_* child go through incest.
The death penalty is by no means only popular in the Deep South. A significant percent of independents and liberals also support it. Almost 2/3 of Americans supported it just a decade ago.
@CommandoDude exactly. I can see how her being your mom would make total sense for someone to decide for themselves not to go through with anything like that, but it isn't rational enough to impose on someone else. If she doesn't get pregnant, no one gets hurt. You are still doing no harm. Making it not really the most apt comparison, in my opinion.
That 4% are innocent is a bullshit statistic. I mean all of them are. But that one specifically. We can prove 4% are innocent. It's really really hard to prove that you are innocent. That is the whole reason we have innocent until proven guilty. That is like when they say that only 2% of rape accusations are false. It's really really hard to prove that they're false. The number that you can prove isn't necessarily the same as the actual number. Let's say there is a bag of M&M's and i can see inside only at the top. I see 5 red ones. I can prove there are 5. That doesn't mean there are only 5 in the whole bag. This is one of the many misleading and bullshit statistics. It's a pseudo science invented to deceive by racist Eugenicists.
Scott Humphreys what’s your argument? Is it more or less than 4%, but we can all agree it’s definitely not 0% what it really should be as a baseline to even think about other arguments than might justify such a sentence.
@@willosmond3772 Neither do I. But I definitely don't want to be part of a system or support a system that tortures inmates to death and calls it justice. Not because of the inmates but because of what this does to us, as human beings.
@@ken481959 IT WAS A SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks fren
Penn and Teller covered this topic in there Bullshit! series in 2006. They've discovered that lethal injection was never designed to provide comfort to those being executed. But, rather make the people performing the execution feel less guilty.
Amanda good luck on your paper, I hope this video helped you gather information. I hope it leaves your thoughts, and reality. I thought before this that lethal injections were like if euthanasia for animals was used on humans, now I know better. I never supported the death penalty and never will
It's not a difficult topic at all. It's _extremely simple_ actually. It is 100% impossible to guarantee that innocent people do not get _murdered_ , thus death penalty is wrong and should never be used. It really IS that simple. The real purpose for the death penalty is vengeance. Anybody says otherwise are lying.
@@niklassilen4313 exactly just don't do it, simple as that. But hey, as you can see from this guys upvotes, 170+ people have already fucked or are considering fucking their moms
Well, just because it is immoral and wrong does not it make it simple. Everything is simple if you already know. But that is not where anger, hate and vengeance arise - is it. Those come up where one does not understand, right? And therefore explaining this topic is very difficult to not bring up even more of those negative feelings. And John Oliver has done a tremendous good job in doing so. Edit: I wish I just had a fraction of his explanatory skills.
@@23sam42 Don't know about you but I haven't ever hurt anybody physically (and try to avoid doing it mentally as well but of course I sometime fail). I'm not effed up either. I think humans can be damn good and truly virtuous. It just takes a lot of effort and a will to change.
Humorous comments or not, it is so refreshing to see a program that dares tackle both tough issues and also take up issues that aren't always on the front-pages elsewhere.
John Oliver is refreshingly willing to tackle tough and obscure issues. It almost makes up for the fact that most of those issues are horribly depressing.
Just wanted to point out that Judge Alex Kozinski had another interview with CBS in 2015 where the same discussion was held. He made a very effective point that has stuck with me ever since I first saw it. It went as follows:
Alex Kozinski: I would eliminate the entire controversy. I would use a bullet or a series of bullets. They're fast. They're effective. Nobody ever survives.
Bill Whitaker: Go back to the firing squad?
Alex Kozinski: Make it look like an execution. Mutilate the body. And this would express the sense of that's what you're doing, that we're actually committing violence on another human being.
Bill Whitaker: I read that you have even thought the guillotine might be a good way to execute.
Alex Kozinski: Oh, yes.
Bill Whitaker: Really?
Alex Kozinski: The guillotine works. Never fails. It's quick. It's effective.
Bill Whitaker: You do know what that sounds like, hearing a judge sort of be an advocate for the guillotine?
Alex Kozinski: Tell me.
Bill Whitaker: Barbaric.
Alex Kozinski: The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.
He does make a really good point, so many people fail to acknowledge that the death penalty is barbaric. I will never be okay with the death penalty.
Bill whitaker representing classic americans. Perfect.
This is completely reasonable. You can't make killing pretty.
Who said it wasn't barbaric. I suppose all the billions of animals we kill every year isn't?
@@EqualsThreeable It is too. It's just that culturally aproved by the majority. It will change at some point.
You know what, that guy at 16:16 has a point. If you're going to be in favour of the death penalty, you shouldn't suddenly get weird about the method. An injection might be more sterile/clinical for the audience, but as was discussed, it's (potentially) absolutely horrendous for the person it's applied to. Bullet(s) to the brain or decapitation is rather foolproof.
What it really comes down to is that a guillotine or a firing squad reminds people to clearly of what a barbaric punishment it _actually_ is. And they'd rather pretend it's not.
I realized that, when he covered the paralytic.
Clinically I'm against the death penalty for many solid reasons. Assuming the crime has been %100 proven guilty and I take the time to learn about the crimes these sub human monsters have done I can't feel bad about any agony they may go through even when I'd be disgusted by it otherwise. I just can't. You try. Take Clayton Lockett. Kidnapped, raped and buried alive a teenage girl. His suffering brings me joy.
@@apathyguy8338 Yes in a perfect world we would have 100% proof that the people being executed are completely guilty of these horrific crimes. Even if that were the case which it absolutely isn't, It's about not becoming the people that they are. I understand your logic and you have every right to have no empathy for someone like Clayton Lockett ( I'm not dismissing or saying your opinion is wrong in any way) but in my personal opinion we need to be better than the people we say are monsters.
@@someguy1141 As I said on a fundamental level I'm against the death penalty and would vote against it given opportunity for many reasons. But when someone like that suffers I find it cathartic if not enjoyable. So I can't get angry about it and therefor I can connect emotionally with those that want it. I only bring it up to try to better understand my own duality. Also they could have found a better example. Yes working from home may have hindered that for them.
Exactly. It's like, what is our goal really? I mean, for whom are we trying to minimize the trauma?
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
@@Jordan-Ramses but you can at least treat your prisoners in a humane way, which is proven to reduce violence in prison and the rate of convicts commiting further crimes after being release. and last but not least, treating them like people and not like human garbage, which most prisoners are not, is the civilized thing to do.
In that case, we have one severely fucked up society.
Cruel AND Unusual, we live in tyranny, bitches.
@@likealightning4139 - I never said you couldn't treat prisoners humanely. So i don't even know why you are saying that. Are you able to understand the words that i am typing?
I pointed out that prisons are bad primarily because they are full of criminals. If a prison was too nice i would be very worried.
Scott Humphreys prisons aren’t just bad and improving them won’t make them good. Not everything is black and white.
“The most lethal thing to come out of a London driving school since prince Philip” this aged well
It didn’t really age at all to be honest. He didn’t die driving a car, he died eating a tangfastic.
Unlike Prince Philip.
@@usersaccount5706 He actually died after a heart attack while he and the queen were trying some BDSM action.
@@SergheyKatastrofenko .... If this is true...imagine
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Lethal injection isn't about who they are - it's about who we are."
you hit the nail on the head every time
But most don’t care.
What does that say?
And yet he's okay with abortions (even late term). Regardless of your stance on either, he's being ridiculously inconsistent
@@jaredzambelli2824 im for late term abortions and lethal injection
Consistency 😎
@@jaredzambelli2824 Except abortions ARE a medical procedure and the vast majority of late term abortions are done because something is either entirely unviable with the fetus (as in it is either already pretty much dead or it won't survive for more than a few days out of the womb, if you're lucky) or the health of the pregnant person is in danger.
@@jaredzambelli2824 The thing about late term abortions is that they account for less than 1% of abortions and are only performed when absolutely necessary (for the health of the mother or the baby being born with a defect that severely limits their ability to survive outside of the whom past infancy). Although abortions are legal, medical professionals have the right to refuse performing them. No medical professional would perform a late term abortion because an irresponsible woman decided she didn't want to be a mother at the last minute. Please do research, find me a case where this has happened and prove me wrong. I'd love to see it.
The subject of the episode aside, John was really popping in this one. He landed everything with just the right amount of energy and timing. Great episode.
Propaganda at its finest
With a small exception of ommiting the questions: Was Sodium Thiopental working as full anesthetic (the video seems to suggest so)? And if it was: who was the idiot who made using it illegal and for what reason?
Are you on crack? Every single episode is the same. The same outbursts. Same profanities. The only thing missing here was some Trump attacks.
@@surveysays8335 lol it uses a similar style of humor but it is far from having that be the case. His humor is based on a similar system most talk shows go with but specialized to him naturally.
@@anonamous365 lol this isn't propaganda and it does say something that is very true. It is bullshit as it currently stands and if you use humane execution as a reason for supporting the death penalty, it is invalid upon scrutiny.
"Have you even been involved in research?"
"No."
I said the same thing!
"do you have roblox installed?"
"I refrain from answering anymore questions."
For some reason I kept expecting him to eat a turkey sandwich.
Do you have a heart? Brain? Soul?
You know what the world research means?
One thing that nobody ever seems to bring up when discussing the death penalty is that the estimated wrongful conviction rate in the US is between 2-10%
He mentions it at the beginning.
As long as the death penalty exists, it _will_ be used on innocent people.
This is the only reason I do not support the death penalty. I strongly believe that those individuals who commit the most depraved crimes like mass murder or sexual assault on children should be killed. They are animals who will never change and as far as I’m concerned they are just a waste of space inside a prison and should have their lives ended as soon as they are found guilty. However, I believe that one single innocent person being put to death is unacceptable. Given that this happens I cannot support the death penalty. In a perfect world where no one was wrongly convicted I would strongly advocate for putting those sick individuals to death so they don’t waste anymore space on this earth. Unfortunately our world and especially the United States justice system is far from perfect
Here in Alabama we've had too many people proven innocent while on death row. Not just the one from Just Mercy.
It's more than that come on it's bs
Going with the anti-incest stance when you have Game of Thrones as a lead-in. Bold move.
I mean its not like GoT endorses incest
@@seedlesswatermelon417 his leaving to kill Cersei
@@joshwilner5622 haha yeah 30 minutes after i made that comment i saw some people talk about it and realized that he was gonna try to kill Cersei. Hell yeah!!!
Yeah, I lost all interest after that. Don't fuck your relatives, folks!
Tf did incest come from? It's a joke for Alabama and even then it's relatively false
John Oliver should turn the Desert Rain Frog into the official mascot of Last Week Tonight
Chi john
Why not the parrot, since that's kind of what he looks like?
Yes, since they had to give away Chii-John to that town in Japan
John already declared the Red-Tailed Hawk as the official LWT animal. ua-cam.com/video/uiN_-AEhTpk/v-deo.html
@@somethingwithmusic9520 Oh, well shit
That 20 minute walk to the end of a punch line lol. Damn John.
Yeah, he took a really long trip around that joke, but I think it made it better.
yeah, the writing in this show is one of the best parts of it.
@@nonamedpleb the irony of it directly following up game of thrones at this point ;D
I know this was a serious, insightful topic but this is the best well structured piece of comedy i've seen this year so far!!!!
Yeah, but doesn't it make the point evade Alabamans somehow though?
The talk about that feeling of being unable to communicate the fact that you're still aware of what's going on hits a little close to home with me. When I got my wisdom teeth removed, I was put under general anesthesia, where they ask you to count up to 20, and before you finish you're unconscious, but the time right before I went under was awful. I couldn't move my body, but was aware of who was around me. I felt like I was floating in the air, spinning slowly and unable to breathe. My last thought was that I genuinely wasn't going to wake up.
I know that that is incomparable to what lethal injections are like, but hearing about that being forced onto someone, criminal or not, just doesn't sit right with me.
And with the intention that they really _won't_ wake up.
Holy shit did you feel pain?
@The Last Hair Bender Not really? I was panicking and my lungs felt like they didn't have enough oxygen, but it only really lasted for no more than 2 seconds before I went under.
@@heknowswherefranceis4838 phew
I had quite a similar experience with my first two wisdom teeth when the anesthesia around them wouldn't work. And while I was in horrible pain but could not clearly talk, the dentist just told me to shut up and keep still.
I felt like one of those questions for that doctor should have just been...
"Have you been involved in research?"
john said he is not a medical doctor
I'm pretty sure the person questioning was just being very specific. Those were all yes/no questions, and so there wasn't much room for spin.
@@salmaaziz9860 doctors in pharmaceutical sciences do research.
LOL! As they finished the questions, I was like, clearly, these questions should have been asked in reverse. Starting with the 'have you done or been involved in any anesthetic research?' should have been closer to the starting point. But admittedly, after all of that, I would have also asked, when, if ever, was the last time you were in a research lab?
I wonder if he and that weird senator got married?
“The one who passes the sentence should swing the sword” -Ned Stark
#Punisher XD
Nuff said
Well said, my lord...😉
Im down with that.. #Dredd
So the jury kills them?
I wrote a college paper on this about a year ago and it was one of the most eye-opening things I've researched. The ineffectiveness, failure rate, and cost were mind-blowing when I first saw the stats.
Medical student ?
@@patdan123 Not at the moment, but I'm hoping to be able to get into a med school when I'm done with college.
@@denebkaitos7511 good on ya. I'm a third year in though. Good luck
@@patdan123 Thanks and good luck to you too.
Yes, lethal injection is a bad way to do it. Put them in front of a firing squad or under a guillotine - a bit messier but no chance of botching it.
I have always loved John Oliver and I shall never change. He’s brilliant and makes things funny even when they’re actually not. God love him
Thank you, to the whole crew, for making a show that tackled this topic, and for being brutally honest along the way.
Is taking someone off the street and locking them in a cage for years against their will wrong?
Yes?
Well then, we'd better not lock someone who locked someone in a cage in a cage.
...Except, of course, that they weren't honest. They omitted certain information that made their claims problematic. They didn't mention that the shift in what drugs are used in lethal injection drugs has been because of boycotts and public pressure put on manufacturers of drugs to get them to stop (See www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/27/supreme-court-death-penalty-case-focuses-on-lethal-injection-drug).
They also overstate what the 4% study they quoted actually did, which was come up with a way to "estimate" what the innocent rate might be - specifically, their premise is "Because some people sentenced to death are exonerated on appeal BEFORE execution, there MUST be people who are are innocent but not exonerated." They make this as their premise but then dismiss the fact that NONE of the inmates in their sample were exonerated post-execution. See www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230 for the study and check it out for yourself.
Don't kid yourself. This is a comedy show plugging a view they think the majority of their audience wants to hear. You can be entertained, that's fine, and some of the points they make are valid... but don't think watching a comedy show will give you an honest understanding of an issue.
@@TacticsFanatic Fair point. The study didn't say any innocent people had been executed. But I would argue that the fact that innocent people had still been sentenced to death (even if they didn't actually die) is frightful.
That lady was trying to defend the death penalty by referencing the execution of an INNOCENT MAN!?
But by that, he saved us, and he foretold it would be happening anyway, so it was ... kinda okay? :headdesk:
I mean, I'm a Christian, but that is some fucked up shit.
TitaniumTeddyBear yeah I think murder is ok because my mom was murdered once
Actually Jesus was guilty of the crime he was accused of
@Ultimate Despair Gamer, actually, Jesus’ execution, and accusations, were politically motivated by the Pharisees, relying heavily on interpretation. His “crimes” were heresy and blasphemy, in which they said he was perverting and speaking against Jewish law. In actuality, Jesus interpreted Jewish law to mean something different than the Pharisees, and his interpretation was becoming more popular with the people. Fearing he was becoming too powerful, they lobbied Pontius Pilot to execute him, mockingly calling him King of the Jews, a title that could have been seen as a threat to Rome. It’s the modern day equivalent of imprisoning a journalist for reporting things you don’t like as a political dissident, like Jamal Kashoggi.
@@leylasmith7179 No they weren't. He was killed by the Romans and his followers changed the story later when they were trying to convert Romans. Cue 1000s of years of anti-semitism.
If Jesus did exist (which there is no evidence of outside of a bunch of magical stories written 100s of years after his death), he was just a guy who started a failed revolution.
THE ROMANS WERE THE BAD GUYS IN THAT STORY, LYNN
Also they have no evidence at all that Jesus was even real. Using the magical land of make believe to justify the death penalty is just wrong.
Apathy Guy That there does not exists evidence as to the Divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is not the same thing as Jesus of Nazareth does not exist.
@@apathyguy8338 actually it is historically incorrect to say Jesus didn't exist, and just as ignorant as saying Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar didn't exist. Just because you're not a Christian doesn't mean you have to resort to spreading around lies about it. Well, your name has the word apathy, so that explains why you don't care about historical truth.
@@ulisesdominguez7540 Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar have an overwhelming amount of contemporary evidence that denial of them is tantamount to claiming Lincoln didn't exist. Seeing as the Bible is a self contradictory mess written from oral tradition compiled between 60 and 200 years after his hypothetical death it can't be considered to be a historical document by anyone claiming to be rational. Why not use the Odyssey as historical proof of Sirens and witches. Add to that there's not a single piece of contemporary correlation has ever been discovered. You truly need to educate yourself on the facts without allowing your desired beliefs to take control of your cognition.
@@blixer8384 I never placed divinity in my statement and have no idea why you did. At the end of the day no evidence as to his existing has ever been found. Sure you can believe if you want and no one prove he didn't live but we have better evidence that Bigfoot is living in Montana than if Jesus was real.
Shouldnt the argument "Whoopsie, we might have just killed the son of god" be used against the death penalty?
This really doesnt sound like a thing you want to do twice.
If we did, wouldn't he just get back up again after a few days? if anything we should keep all the bodies around to see if any get back up. OK aside from how horrible my previous statement was I am currently against the death penalty due to cost and that we currently are at a 4% error rate.... should those two things change in the future I will reevaluate my stance.
Yes, but who said all Christians were sane? There's a reason I no longer believe in God.
Religion really doesn't sound like a thing we would want to do twice x.x
When they can't kill someone, they'll waste some kids and cover it up with their 'belief'
Who would that persuade? The whole point of christianity is that he died for some people's sins. That's like the whole point.
"True courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when it spare it."
-A fucking awesome wizard.
@cornskid firstly, friend, it's a quote. From Gandalf. You should have this argument with a fictional character instead.
cornskid How about the courage not to give into the first base instinct to kill based on anger and hatred? The courage to want to be better than the people we convict? And maybe try and help them be better as opposed to just deeming all prisoners lost causes?
Prison life is not much of a life
@cornskid What is the definition of courage ? Maybe we don't understand it, explain, please.
@@Khwerz that is kind of the point.
Last year I wrote a term paper about lethal injection in Texas after seeing your show about death penalty.
Anyway I just want to thank you guys for all the research and time you put into every show. Keep up the amazing work
Regards from Germany
Cora Hofmann Grüße aus Deutschland zurück
Mensch, noch mehr Leute aus Deutschland :D
@@irgendeinname5871 Deutsche? Hier? Niemals!
Grüße aus Österreich!
Deutsche, oh ja!
I agree with what you said though, Cora.
Had to come back to watch this episode after the bomb he dropped tonight on 4/7/24. Over 4 years later and it's gotten worse. I appreciate the work John and his crew do to make a real impactful change in this world.
The good shit to watch while breakfast.
Oh yeah!
@Alfredo Barragan 502 about 9am, Germany. Unemployed, so it's the perfect time for breakfast.
same
@@b4Bub0i me too technically. Well... Actually I'm writing my a-levels atm but my next exam is wednesday so atm I'm unemployed
@@derdude3796 all the best in your exams!
He made the best point right off the bat. 4% executed are eventually found to be innocent. The state executing one innocent person is already too many.
if they were innocent then how the hell were they convicted and not have their case dismissed shortly after?? some cases have been proven to be incorrect I get that but come on man you wouldn't be there for no reason....
@@GHustle4 Congratulations on spotting the massive problem.
@@GHustle4 Hm. Sheriff wants to be judge, Deputy wants to be Sheriff - policy of the hard hand gets votes - so let us lead this poor bloke to sign a confession...
Or more generally - if some terrible crime is commited, the only way to appease the public is to present a perpretator, convict and sentence him. It's secondary if the convicted one is the right one. That happens, if 'retaliation' becomes part of the legal process.
@@GHustle4 You are kidding right? Do you know how many people confess to crimes they didn't commit? This targets black people most of all. They are lied to by the police, told if they confess, they'll get to go home faster. And this is just one of the MANY issues in our justice system. Yes, some people are put there for other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or looking "similar" to the actual criminal. 1 innocent person being killed by state should be enough of a reason for this not to happen.
@@GHustle4 - Because our justice system rewards the prosecution for numbers of convictions. It rewards the enforcement personnel based on arrests. The system is stacked AGAINST the defendant. Being innocent is immaterial to the system. Exculpatory evidence is non-admissible in most cases (that's evidence that PROVES innocence.) There are stacks and stacks of cases of enforcement planting evidence and lying so they can arrest, and of prosecution suppressing evidence that would exonerate or lead a jury to a non-guilty verdict.
The majority of such cases are NOT highly publicized. In fact, the media is often forbidden to reveal such details by court orders and laws, even if they get the information in the first place.
Our justice system in the US is supposed to be based on the assumption of innocence, yet every thing that has been put in place since the late 1800s has eaten away at that assumption. Unbalanced funding which favors prosecution, laws which prevent the presenting and admissibility of exculpatory evidence, plea-bargaining, and more.
The prosecution will do all kinds of things to extort a plea-bargain. It saves them having to actually go to trial, counts as a conviction, and the accused effectively loses most rights of appeal.
You really should research what actually goes on in how the accused and convicted are treated in our justice system. It's quite reprehensible.
"Lethal injection isn't about who they are, it's about who we are." - Best JO quote ever
M. Miel
But isn’t life imprisonment, or extended sentences (sentences meant to extend beyond how long a person could reasonably live, such as when people get 200 years for various combined crimes) just a realllllly slow death sentence?
And how do you think most people serving life/extendeds die? They get sick, then suffer, and then die. It’s not very common for lifers to just die peacefully in their sleep or anything like that. Bodies should rot in the ground, not in a cell.
@@ZacksRockingLifestyle - The same could be said of people living outside of prison. Most people do not die in their sleep. They get sick, they suffer while medical staff work to keep them alive, and then they suffocate. That doesn't mean we should just blow up the earth and get all our deaths over with.
Really because I think it's bullshit. There is a difference between murder and punishment. It's an important distinction that John ignores here. Like covering how Lockett died but not the grisly details of his crime. He kidnapped, beat, and shot, a teenage girl before he buried her alive. He was a monster but we are bad people because he suffered when he paid for his crime...
@@TheZeroNeonix what he meany was if death penalty is bad so is life sentence. how can you put human in cage for life? there should not be life sentence to anyone.
@@GibDozer1 yeah when i looked that up I was kinda glad that he suffered as much as he did before he died.
These people don't deserve sympathy. Or mercy. They're not even humans. At best rabid animals that need to be put down, at worse demons from the pits of hell made flesh.
I'm never going to be moved by the "we're better than this" argument. Everyone is better off pointing out how innocent people are sentenced to death. That alone is the reason I support abolishing the death penalty.
The most humane death penalty is anesthesia. Supply enough anesthesia so the prisoner passes out then keep applying it until their heart stops. Humane, works without torturing the convicted and is lethal.
However no anesthesiologist would do that. For obvious reasons.
And also as it turns out is actually *really* hard to do to a healthy person, and would require a downright Keith Moon level of drugs to do. Hardly cost effective - among its other issues. And all that assumes it 'goes right'.
Again, that also doesn’t get around the fact that how do you know without doubt that the person you’re killing is actually guilty. At least if you are in jail for life you can be released with new evidence, yes you can’t get your life back, but you haven’t been murdered by the state. America is one of those countries that spends more time working out nice pleasant ways to kill people rather than working out, why they have such a problem with fucking crime and homicide in the first place
@@conors4430 I believe he was playing devil's advocate here.
That would effectively kill most people quickly... But most isn't all. Human beings can be remarkably difficult to kill, and we don't respond reliably to medication. A firing squad is more reliable, but I'm sure if we use it enough times we will find a horrifying example of what a man can survive.
Of course blood loss will always get you eventually. My dad came very close to dying from blood loss, he said that part was surprisingly peaceful. It's still a horrible and inhumane thing to do to a restrained human being.
Honestly, I disagree. As people pointed out, it won't always work, and definitely not quickly or smoothly. As the guy said, the guillotine is the closest to humane this practice can get. It's instant, painless, and cannot fail to kill.
The only reason it's not done is as almost everyone involved in this episode said - it's all a show. We want to still kill people, but we want to pretend it can be some gentle, bloodless thing.
"Have you been involved...in research?"
Yes, that would have been a time saver! No need to list all of those drugs individually.
NO....
“... No”
I think it’s to hit the point home. Then in court you can show that they admitted to not researching any of the drugs in question. In court the lawyer could argue “well you didn’t ask my client specifically about XYZ. He misunderstood the question.”
no❤️
I am so thankful for these uploads on youtube.
Epic! I just gifted you some reddit gold!
shaun did a really good video on the death penalty and I like the way he framed it. He framed it as "Lets assume that there are some crimes where killing someone is objectively the right thing to do, I'm not going to argue with you on that, lets just assume its true. The government still shouldn't be able to do it."
They can send you to war, but they can't kill the scum of Earth? Make it make sense
@@Nimish204 dont really need to make it make sense also two things can be wrong at once. Also "scum of the earth" is assuming alot. The justice system gets things wrong all the fucking time, literally all the fucking time, and sometimes they get it INSANELY wrong whether its police misconduct, investigation laziness, prosecutorial misconduct so on and so forth.
The thing is, its cheaper for tax payers to not use the death penalty and if a man is exonerated you can release him from prison.
If he's exonerated you cant bring him back from the dead.
The government should do it, but it should only be for the most morally reprehensible crimes.
@@FlexedNoose and the burden of proof needs to be crazy high
@BlackLivesMatter The level of evidence needs to be high, even a confession isnt great because police coerce confessions literally all the time.
last week: chitaan
this week: lethal injections 🤠🤙
what about sad yeehaw
Yeah, you could tell last week that this week was going to be something serious, but at least John Oliver can put a humorous, if disturbing, spin on it.
Lmao
That Chitaan episode though
Exactly why I love this show
To go from adorable Japanese mascots to the death penalty is a little bit of a 180°
Thats why he smoothed it out by a super cute frog angry and ready for battle
Not really. Hello Kitty would kill is all, if she could.
Welcome to John Oliver.
Well...did you know Japan still hangs people? ;)
Last episode was shittiest and most boring ever
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" - Lord Eddard Stark
No... George rr Martin wrote that and created the character
@jocaguz18 unless you are a psychopath, I really doubt that.
@@pawnzrtasty Can you chill out, man? You know what he meant.
Some interesting bit of useless knowledge: the jewish bible describes a punishment (that was never used) given to children that are rebellious, useless, and only eat and drink (alcohol) all day. The parents would bring the child to the city elders, and then the child would be stoned to death in the city square. Anyway, Chazal decided that in any case this punishment would ever be administrated, the parents should be the ones to throw the first stone, and it wasn't used once in jewish history.
@@waves_under_stars The "Jewish" bible? You mean the old testament? Which is also a cornerstone of the christian faith...
My dog got excited from that frogs noise lol 😂😂😂😂
I could use a "Chiijohn meets the desert rain frog" segment right about now
666tbird yess- much better lol
I watched this with my mom. That wasn't awkward at all.
Do you agree with the reasons though?
hahahahaha
Oh dear God!
Well of course it's not awkward. I mean you wouldn't even think about fucking her right?
Right?
What position were you two doing?
"This desert rain frog - it sounds like a dog's toy" - my dog immediately looks up to see where the squeaking comes from :D
*squeaks in anger*
STOP CALLING ME CUTE REEEEEEEEE I MAD
What a frog!
Same
My cat is still looking for that frog
@@gretchenbaker7435 So is mine! I can hear her, scratching and sniffing away under the bed... XD
A 19 minute & 6 second long setup that ends with a fantastic 3 second punchline omg WOW❤ BRAVO!!
„Lethal injection [or execution in general for that matter] isn’t about who they [the prisoners] are, it’s about who we [the people] are.”
I think this is the core of the debate. This is what we should be talking about.
The Death penalty is revenge, not punishment.
No, that's wrong. It's a punishment. Punishment is about the person receiving it, not the person(s) involved in doling it out. And just to clarify, this is who Clayton Lockett was:
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Now that you've seen the clinical statements of fact of what he was convicted for, go read a few news articles detailing exactly how horrendous those acts were.
F C I personally think Society as a whole deserves that “revenge” when it comes to certain High crimes. There’s something about killing the worst among us that we can PROVE without a shadow of a doubt did it, that gives the populace a sense of peace.
@@AlexAnder-rv1gu Fair enough. What do you think it was that lead him to become the way he was? And do we meet brutality with more brutality? Murder is wrong, no matter who does it.
@@Mnecrafter99 Does the revenge actually provide us with relief or a sense of well being? I don't get either of those things from any executions, and I don't want the revenge. I'd rather see people locked away to rot than to pay more to kill them, though actually both seem cruel to me.
I wonder how many website domains John Oliver has bought so far
If you're keeping count, he mentions three of them in his video about Rudy Giuliani.
Someone should do a tally of that.
@@kyara7032 And now we wait for it to be updated with tonight's, lol.
@@kyara7032 thanks 😄
Ask HBO they probably have the receipts lol
God I love john oliver, he's my favorite source for information on television. Perfect mix of comedy and well researched information.
~~television~~ UA-cam*
If he’s your only news source, you’re doing it wrong. Look at sources on every side of the political world and ever viewpoint.
@Rich Savage true.
@@herbertmilhomme Television* He's on HBO, his show is made for television, not for youtube. They just post the main segment to youtube.
@Rich Savage Disagree with you there. Life in prison is much cheaper and ethical.
Well this became relevant again. Rest in peace, Brandon Bernard.
I came here after another person's DNA was found on the weapon supposedly used by Ledell Lee to commit murder. He was put to death 4 years ago, insisting he was innocent.
Sadly, I think this video is often relevant, if you live in the US.
@@ILuvAyeAye Well even with conservative estimations you usually exceed 1% of the executed to be innocent.
To paraphrase Victor Hugo:
"To pass an irreversible sentence it would take an infallible justice system."
Is that the batman villian?
this is the one and only argument here.
i don't care if murderer dies paralyzed in intense agony. i do care if an innocent man dies.
@@detectiveduck6608 No, he is the author of Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris (the basis for the Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Most sentences are irreversible, you cant give back the years an innocent person has spent in prison.
@TheWin200000 you can compensate for it though
Based on John Oliver's conclusion, I'm guessing Alabama has no problem with executions in any way
Roll tide.
Nor does Texas
Oof
I live in Alabama and anyone who disagrees that we are objectively the worst state is lying to themselves. The fact we execute the most people is just the cherry on top of the cake of shit and rot.
SWEET HOME ALABAMA 🤠🤠🤠
Firing squad is easily the best method. Cost effective, quick and despite the pain of being shot, it certainly beats the torture of lethal injection.
I was honestly really sad they didnt talk about the desert rain frog 😭
Reading the title I initially thought he was going to talk about how its venom was used for lethal injections.
100th
Yeah I had to look it up after. Too cute not to watch a video on.
Here is five minutes of a desert rain frog making adorable war cries as a consolation prize.
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Technically they did
"...isn't about who they are. It's about who we are." Daaaaaang. *Snaps fingers*
Hope you didn't have the glove on though.
@@Lagastic It's a gauntlet! Gloves are what you wear when it's cold outside, not when you want to wield cosmic power!
Very portentous...it would look nice on a poster, but doesn't really say much or add anything constructive to the dialogue. At least that's how *_I_* see it...
[SPOILER] ... and I... am... Olivman
And I'm here clapping like a normal person :O
Saying it for emphasis:
Should never be operated for profit:
1. Healthcare
2. Prisons/Jails
3. Education
Corresponds exactly with:
1. Life
2. Liberty
3. Pursuit of happiness
For german native speaker like me the pharmacy/ gift shop seems even more fitting as "Gift" means poison in german
Well crap
Not only poison, "gift" also means "married" in Swedish.
Rock Göre Didn't even notice that.
Ps: I am from Austria.
"Gif" means poison in Dutch.
We usually say; 'I'll send you a gifje' (little gif) instead of 'I'll send you a gif' because nobody says 'little poison/gifje" about poison.
That's how you clarify it's not a threat and you're just about to send a moving picture of a cat.
Maybe a more humane method would be to be geshanked.
There have been recorded accounts of severing the vocal chords of dogs during experiments so that the sounds of pain and desperation would not bother the scientists.
Lethal injection is the same thing.
No, it's not because the dogs are innocent.
The animal torture can also go on for much longer period of time.
@@beautifulaspen6583 dont dogs have no free will and thus cannot be judged as innocent or guilty?
@Grace Norton according to Catholicism only humans have free will but if ur not religious everything's free game I guess
@@mandre2390
My dog’s reluctance to get off his doggy butt disagrees with you.
As does his general eagerness to please and his constant asking for our food. (Mom is eating yogurt? He’ll stare like “do I get some?” Yes! You can lick it out when she’s done!)
that was a LOT of leadup for that closing joke
But it payed of.
Worth it
Worth
Great writing. Probably the best one this year so far.
One of those things that I should have seen coming but didn't. And it made it that much better. It hit me right as John said "Then I guess you're arguing...."
Can we get a frog episode?
I know there's A LOT to cover in the next season but it would be a fun episode.
8:09 well, when you consider the fact that the term 'Gift' in german means poison, it's not that weird at all. :)
In Swedish "gift" means both poison and married.
in sweden it means both poison and marriage :D
it also stands for poisen and marriage in swedish
oh, that's interesting. in german we also have the term 'Mitgift' (although it's old fashioned), which is the present/gift/payment or just the household objects (like tableware) a bride brings into a marriage.
@@siri7005 coincidentally in English the term marriage means both gift and poison
Oh my God. When he said "this is the most lethal thing to come out of a British driving school..." I thought he was going to say "since the Paparazzi."
......ow!
I wonder how many people still remember that episode of 90s tragic pop culture.
Didn't that happen in Paris?
From the cute squeaking frog to lethal injections, boy did that turn serious quickly.
Kinda like how good a star is born was, to the rise of authoritarianism
John Oliver: happily crushing souls one show at a time! Ah, the Brits!
That’s the joke...
Sirius.
John's Mom must feel so slighted right now.
John needs to apologise to his mom... And his dad... Imagine the neighbours talking to Mrs Oliver, "oh! I watch your son on telly last night. Did you know he was thinking of snogging you?"
@Textual Predator you're thinking of the wrong guy snowflake.
That was the weirdest thing since the Santa sketch from the clip about Mexican elections!
@Textual Predator As *_John_* and his mom are British, he needs to *_apologise, not apologize._*
@@angeluscorpius Shagging, not snogging
I just reread The Giver, and this reminds me of it more than I would like.
Zootopia is definitely sexier than monsters inc
Unpopular opinion
Just ask rule 34
Herman Sanchez I’d fuck that rabbit
Sully thicc tho
I guess that's true
I probably shouldn't have watched this with my mom, who is a Desert Rain Frog.
Which will squeak more tonight? Her or the bedsprings?
Did it make things pretty weird with dad?
Imagine 100 years from now, people stumbling upon John's websites 😂
I recently had a medical procedure that involved being given an intravenous cocktail of fentanyl and midazolam. I can tell you, with complete confidence, that midazolam is not enough if you're planning to take a life. I was STILL CONSCIOUS while having the procedure performed and while it was a nice, mellowed high, it is not an anaesthetic. Your inmates will likely be awake, conscious, and able to feel basically everything going on to their bodies.
They give a much higher dose for executions
@@Lapusso650 Doesn't matter?
@@Resi1ience yes. That's my point. Also, it rendered dogs unconscious for surgery in one study
The last person who really tried to make executions more humane (for the person being executed) was Dr. Guillotin.
Every other innovation since has been about making the audience more comfortable.
Yeah. If ethics in Medicine didn't exist (or if they trained those executioners and then subsequently brought proper anesthesia), then...
Oh wait. While they'd have actual doctors doing it, without ethics, anesthesia wouldn't exist. God d**n it!
Well, it _is_ immoral, so I guess it makes sense that its part of the majority that can't be completely humane and more inhumane...
Indeed, if people are comfortable killing people, they should have the decency to tolerate blood on their hands. The guillotine is one of the most humane execution method.
@@felixzer1 not for the king who was excecuted with a dull blade
@@MsBayley ...I think they did that on purpose though
Guillotines failed in terribly gross ways (blade got stuck midway through the neck and stuff). Because of this, Victor Hugo was actively against them (and death penalty in general)
I'm proud to be a Queenslander from Australia which was one of the first jurisdictions that banned capital punishment. No matter how you look at it killing is wrong and two wrongs never make a right. Even worse if an innocent person wrongfully convicted is executed, who should shoulder the blame?
Are we not going to mention that the driving school was named "El-Gone"
It could be worse. Here in my country the driving school near me is called "God's Will Driving School"...
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 So as your instructor sits besides you, he also does part-time sermons?
@@Iason29 The fact that the owner of the driving school is an Adventist, not surprised he would do sermons on the side...
Ohlourdes Padua I’m seriously laughing my ass off and probably woke up the neighbors... you made my night.
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 First Lesson: Let Jesus take the wheel.
Well I'm disgusted with John Oliver's opinion here. I mean it's obvious that Zootopia has the sexiest characters!
Nick Wilde is so fuckin fine 😳😩
@@thatguyknownaswill8180 Not to mention Judy Hopps or the cute cop at the front desk.
@@The_gaming_archaeologist You're clearly forgetting Roz from M.Inc. She be looking FINE, but maybe hide your salt stash.
@@googlelovesdoxxing7981 M.inc? Don't think I've heard of that...
Bro the receptionist is a milk truck
I think John really undersold that last point on capital punishment. Four percent. FOUR. PERCENT. The fact that a single innocent person has been killed by the prison system should be reason enough to throw the whole process out altogether.
Not to at least half the public, which is shameful. Wonder what they would think if they or their family members were wrongfully killed. After all it's just "collateral damage".
Right... because the victims of the other 96% doesn't matter, right...
They named a guy in the episode... wonder why they didn't touch on what he did...
@@CZ57-Avenger_ let me try to get this right. You think it's fair that innocent people who are victims of crimes have their perpetrators punished at the expense of other innocent people who are convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit? That's a fair legal system to you?
@@CZ57-Avenger_ it doesn't matter what he did. The eighth amendment details why this is wrong and illegal. You want to have a legal or moral argument on the death penalty in general fine, but torture? I think torture is still against the law last I checked
@@stephan2053 No, I just think you cant settle an argument based on the exception. You see 4% innocent, well, I see 96% murderers rightfully convicted with room to improve. And frankly I even doubt this numbers... John sure knows how to toy with narratives when is convenient. We do euthanasias all the time... animals and people... the right process is known. If the legal system has flaws we need to improve it, not throw it through the window. Just saying... you don't get a capital sentence for silly things... that guy ruined some innocent lives forever.
Episodes like this is why Jon Oliver has like 10 emmys.
Emmys are for being entertaining, not for being factual, just remember that.
G Dubya okay?
@Arena Rat
That is definitely an opinion that you are having.
@Arena Rat can you explain?
@@basmca1 I believe this individual has discovered the political bias rather than neutrality of this show. It has become more apparent as of late and has many viewers rejecting it. The political leanings he appeal to are vocal in their support, but not so incredibly large in number and as such you see him receiving much more criticism and there's a lot more fighting in the comments.
I love this show precisely because it manages to bring some real important issues all the while delivering it in comedic way.
Keep up the good work!
JOHN OLIVER ROCKS!
This is a serious topic but *the Desert Rain Frog is as cute as the Turtle that made love to a shoe*
👍🤣
Nice to see you commenting on a video other than House MD.
I ship it!
Yeeeee Boiiiiiiiiii
I thought it was going to turn out that type of frog is used to create the injection material. Fortunately, no. He's just a cute frog.
That should be the Show pet lol😊
Looking at the internet, the answer is Zootopia
You really wanna do this bro?
Rule 34...
Yes. Yes it is, by a wide margin. Which makes me think John just brought it up as a joke and didn't actually research it. And that's adorable :)
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Exactly, How can he even say that when Judy Hopps is so thicc? after he said that I couldn't take anything he said after seriously.
The way I see it, if there is any chance, whatsoever, that you may end up executing an innocent person, then the death penalty is off the table full stop. Now, because there is always a margin for error in conviction, that means the death penalty should be completely outlawed.
There’s cases where I think it’s 100%, absolutely the thing to do, and the person is clearly guilty of what they did. The problem is, I don’t trust anyone in government to properly draw that line.
This was a grim topic, but holy shit that frog is ADORABLE.
_What a perfect segue!_ 🤣
Uhm.... no furry, but Zootopia has _objectively_ sexier CGI characters!
Not yet. ;D
i am also no furry, and i have to agree i guesss...
Penny Lane Sure you’re not. I’m totally not a furry too. 😏
@@zoekelly9949 OwO..
Yup.
Four years later and wikileaksorwhatever is still up and running.
"The death penalty is not about who they are, it's about who we are."
I like that.
I'm fine with being the kind of human being who accepts and agrees that child-molesters, sexual-assaulters, etc. should suffer for the same abuse they suffered at the end of the defenseless.
Let me make this clear, while it cannot be guaranteed
@@emilie.q.6016 That creates an endless cycle of criminals^^
@@SennaHawx how ?
@@udbhavshrivastava Because that way someone is forced to do exactly what the criminal did.
I've had Midazolam used on me before you can still feel everything you're still conscious and aware you might fall asleep just because your tired but not because you've been knocked out.
i'm glad you survived the execution
Made up story, obviously if they used it properly you would be totally under. Internet liars these days can't even make up stories anymore
Headass have you used it before and I used midazolam before for a different purpose than being executed so it probably was a smaller dose but I am just speaking from experience. Fucking boomer boy
Snap I'm an epileptic and had multiple times, it makes you feel like your arms and legs are wet noodles, Doesn't make you unconscious.
@Epic there a big difference between 'passing out' and falling asleep, granted whenever I've had its been in stressful situations I've never fallen asleep from it. Passing out/ being rendered unconscious isn't something it does.
If we can use hydraulic presses to process huge pieces of metal at a highly capitalistic rate I'm pretty sure we can lob some heads off in many pieces pretty efficiently and humanely. Might not be pretty, but very humanely.
When she said that the greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty I was thinking of Socrates.
Hah. From an American politician? A bit optimistic. I knew it had to be Jeebus.
Me too lol. We were hoping too much though, eh?
Vasilis Mich really I was thinking of Harry Fucking Potter, but your transparent attempt to appear more intelligent than you actually are by naming a dead person is duly noted.
@@fakenoose8978 , Harry Potter didn't face a trial and legal punishment.
@@fakenoose8978 no worse than your transparent attempt to be a total ass... But hey who's keeping score.
Id seriously feel 100% better about the death penalty if , those in favor of it, did not refer to it as "justice". Firstly, the person who was unjustly killed, is dead. Secondly, lets stop calling it "justice", when the entire point of putting the murders to death is all about revenge. Revenge is not "justice", again, because the one who actually died is dead. Its simply revenge, so lets call it what it is.
They would sooner get penaltied themselves than admit distinction.
But if they called it that, it’d be a lot harder to make it seem like a reasonable thing for society to do.
"Revenge is not justice"
Justice is literally just when revenge is sanctioned by the state
The website is working and so is the frog. 🤣😂😅😅😂🤣
You should be mad if you ever thought it wouldn't
"It's not about who they are, it's about who we are."
That sums it up.
We are _homo sapiens sapiens,_ the most vicious, vindictive, destructive (and self-desdructive) species to ever have plagued this planet. So ...
@@Gaius__ ...maybe we should change that
@@sierra1513 How do you propose we change that? Extermination? Eugenics? Genetic engineering?
@@StrazdasLT its not intrinsic, its almost purely a result of socialization
@@sierra1513 Incorrect. Our instincts are genetic.
The french actually did use the guillotine right up until the last execution in the 1970s
Christians forgot that the part where Jesus gets killed by the Roman Empire is supposed to be a tragedy.
2edgy4me
Good Friday, educate yourself edgelord
Why would it be a tragedy when he died for all man's sins to be reconciled to God?
applejuicejunkie316 because He is innocent and pure and definitely shouldn’t have had to die because we fucked up? a day in hell is an insane price to pay for us; just because it was good doesn’t mean it wasn’t sad
Wasn’t it technically 3 days and a far quicker death than any of the other victims as in John wasn’t pilot (fuck the spelling) surprised that he died before the sabbath when the Jews wanted the break the victims legs to bring about the auto erotic (is that right or just autocorrect) asphyxiation that usually kills them
John, your writing team is brilliant.
@Mar Vill what now?
@Mar Vill .like anyone cares
Just cuz sympathizing with murderers is difficult, doesn't mean anyone should have the power to kill someone. Murder should not be allowed, period. Killing murderers, does not make us better people than them. And many evil acts are results of mental illness and/or trauma, so some people just aren't stable enough to be considered responsible for their actions. Recognizing such signs and preventing incidents is what the focus should be on. Protecting the lives of innocents. Not killing more people.
I... I really wanted to hear more about that frog.
Yeah, that makes two of us.
I've seen that frog once on a viral video some ages ago so I already knew what sound it would make. But it's still adorable :)
They are as cute as it gets ua-cam.com/video/t6NvnsrBNqw/v-deo.html
That frog has his own UA-cam channel, if you're interested.
@@yaboyjay7202 That video was fascinating! I love watching nature shows and I love David Attenborough's voicing.
Death penalty, incest... what you trying to say about the Deep South here John
@CommandoDude soooooo............ Gotta wonder exactly what ya mean by that. Just what the hell're you trying to say?!?? Because *I'd* rather see some piece of shit rapist go through _all_ of what J.O. described than have *_even one_* child go through incest.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
The death penalty is by no means only popular in the Deep South. A significant percent of independents and liberals also support it. Almost 2/3 of Americans supported it just a decade ago.
@@hereticpariah6_66 that's revenge, not justice.
@CommandoDude exactly. I can see how her being your mom would make total sense for someone to decide for themselves not to go through with anything like that, but it isn't rational enough to impose on someone else. If she doesn't get pregnant, no one gets hurt. You are still doing no harm. Making it not really the most apt comparison, in my opinion.
Long way from chiitan.
No shit.
They had a squeaky frog tho
That 4% are innocent is a bullshit statistic. I mean all of them are. But that one specifically. We can prove 4% are innocent. It's really really hard to prove that you are innocent. That is the whole reason we have innocent until proven guilty.
That is like when they say that only 2% of rape accusations are false. It's really really hard to prove that they're false. The number that you can prove isn't necessarily the same as the actual number. Let's say there is a bag of M&M's and i can see inside only at the top. I see 5 red ones. I can prove there are 5. That doesn't mean there are only 5 in the whole bag.
This is one of the many misleading and bullshit statistics. It's a pseudo science invented to deceive by racist Eugenicists.
Scott Humphreys what’s your argument? Is it more or less than 4%, but we can all agree it’s definitely not 0% what it really should be as a baseline to even think about other arguments than might justify such a sentence.
Ain't that the truth! Well, at least last week was a break from the madness.
Who else is here to rewatch parts 1 and 2 of what's now officially a death penalty trilogy?
9:42 the most infuriating thing about that clip is that the clock never gets to ten o'clock.
Haha, the things some people notice while watching these always amazes me. Nice catch. lol
I was waiting for that the whole video! What a tease! It ended too soon.
I want to click like on this 599 times!
And that it was so close to exactly 10 minutes.
That's creepy))))
"its not about who they are... its about who we are" Yup!
Personally I don't mind if a person who rapes and eats kids feels pain when they die
If you kill him, you'll be just like him!
Mmmmm...nah.
@@willosmond3772 Neither do I. But I definitely don't want to be part of a system or support a system that tortures inmates to death and calls it justice. Not because of the inmates but because of what this does to us, as human beings.
@@EricMustardman To fight monsters we must breed our own.
@@willosmond3772 George Carlin makes the most sense to me on the issue: for the worst of the worst, crucify them at halftime on Monday night football
I’ve been robbed of a 20 minute frog video.
Here's a 4 minute one.
ua-cam.com/video/t6NvnsrBNqw/v-deo.html
You're welcome.
@@ken481959 if I click on this and it is NOT zedfrank1 then what even is the point of internet
@@AurelUrban is this better? ua-cam.com/video/HBxn56l9WcU/v-deo.html
@@ken481959 IT WAS A SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks fren
This thread is a whirlwind of emotion.
Penn and Teller covered this topic in there Bullshit! series in 2006. They've discovered that lethal injection was never designed to provide comfort to those being executed. But, rather make the people performing the execution feel less guilty.
I'm currently writing my thesis on lethal injection... Why must it follow me everywhere
Amanda good luck on your paper, I hope this video helped you gather information. I hope it leaves your thoughts, and reality. I thought before this that lethal injections were like if euthanasia for animals was used on humans, now I know better. I never supported the death penalty and never will
@@naturegirl1999 there's no facts to be brought from this, it's not a citable source for anything attpting to meet some sort of academic standard
Give it your best shot
Better followed by the Thesis, than the spirits of the condemned *remembers own thesis*, though it's debatable...
why do you all care about how a murderer is murdered??? wtf is wrong with Americans lmaooooo
Difficult topic. ... and superbly covered. Thx John Oliver and team
It's not a difficult topic at all. It's _extremely simple_ actually. It is 100% impossible to guarantee that innocent people do not get _murdered_ , thus death penalty is wrong and should never be used. It really IS that simple. The real purpose for the death penalty is vengeance. Anybody says otherwise are lying.
@@niklassilen4313 exactly just don't do it, simple as that. But hey, as you can see from this guys upvotes, 170+ people have already fucked or are considering fucking their moms
@@niklassilen4313 innocent get murdered with or without the panalty. The idea that we humans are somehow not effed up is laughable.
Well, just because it is immoral and wrong does not it make it simple. Everything is simple if you already know. But that is not where anger, hate and vengeance arise - is it. Those come up where one does not understand, right? And therefore explaining this topic is very difficult to not bring up even more of those negative feelings.
And John Oliver has done a tremendous good job in doing so.
Edit: I wish I just had a fraction of his explanatory skills.
@@23sam42 Don't know about you but I haven't ever hurt anybody physically (and try to avoid doing it mentally as well but of course I sometime fail). I'm not effed up either. I think humans can be damn good and truly virtuous. It just takes a lot of effort and a will to change.
Humorous comments or not, it is so refreshing to see a program that dares tackle both tough issues and also take up issues that aren't always on the front-pages elsewhere.
John Oliver is refreshingly willing to tackle tough and obscure issues. It almost makes up for the fact that most of those issues are horribly depressing.
Yeah, that discussion on Zootopia vs. Monsters Inc. is pretty important.
Congratulations, John. You may have actually managed to change my mind on the death penalty
Finally, someone. The power of lethal injection to turn us all away from the death penalty.
Omg that frog at the beginning melted my heart
He is very angry that you do not take him seriously.
What an adorable little froggie 💖💞
The real story was whether or not that frog was gay. -alex jones
lool
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
JessiBe
I guess it depends... Did it drink the water that turns frogs gay?
He was bi-curious for sure.
chemicals in our watersupplies are actually turning the frogs transsexual, google it
alex jones is a nut but in this specific case he was right
2023, can confirm that web page still works.
Yeah, i looked too ^^