Message to everyone : If youre gonna be a parent, keep in mind that YOU decided to give life to someone. Your children do not owe you, YOU owe them everything.
I hate how parents can cause so much trauma and damage towards their children. Imagine how much less violence and hurt in the world there would be if children didn't learn hate and fear over love.
@@shanemyrick5432 Well idk because I grew up in the tail end of the crack era, and if you are surrounded by that kind ugliness it's hard especially when you don't have any type of support. I think of myself as a decent person, and even though i didn't have much I had good people around who cared, but some people don't have that.
@@chillasweet879 I don't remember where I heard this but the most important thing any kid can have is someone who they think is there for them and cares about them. If a kid doesn't have this it will lead to all sorts of issues in their life. I too had a difficult childhood which greatly affected me and my life has been a challenge because of it. I'm lucky to be where I'm at but the people in this thread are hard and don't want to understand how an abusive childhood affects people. You show me someone who has issues like drug abuse or violence and I'll show you someone who grew up in difficult circumstances. I'm glad you had some decent people in your life.
Or when your mother applies to the authorities to have the custody of you revoked. That happened to my kids. When she - the mother - finally committed suicide, all agreed that it was the best for all. Both her mother and her children.
This story hit hard man. My mom was addicted too, my father was the dealer. As a kid I can remember just begging to be loved, seeking attention and just yearning for that feeling of being wanted. Still struggle with believing I’m loved to this day.
@@0801161215 doesn't justify it but certainly gives a valid reason why he would tho. Psychological scars are just as prominent if not more than physical scars
Hi. I'm Joe Robinson, Donald Grant's eldest sibling. As you can imagine, the past several months have been very difficult emotionally and psychologically for me and my family. And I can only imagine how difficult it has been for the loved ones of the two young women who's life was ended at the hands of my brother. As far as I am concerned, it is tragic all around. I appreciate all of the thoughtful comments that I've read about the interview. It's heartening to know that despite the tragedy surrounding this and other death penalty cases that some people are able to find the humanity in it.
@@joerobinson417 I personally do not believe in the death penalty. It doesn't just punish the perpetrator but also other innocent people such as his/her family. I can't imagine going through what you did. All love to you!
Nothing unsettles me more than the thought of being strapped to a bed about to die, my family watching me, and knowing I wasted my life. It's not even scary it's just truly depressing. It makes me grateful for my life.
Watching my brother strapped to a gurney and take his last breath was the hardest thing I've ever experienced. My heart goes out to anyone who experiences this!
and even more funnier part, the protestors protesting "all life is precious" at the gate. i dont think thats what he thought while murdering multiple people.
@@lxn860 yes he did wrong in killing someone, but if you agree that he did wrong then you don't do him the same thing. Because if you do you are a hypocrite and as cruel as he was.
@@margaridavelhinho1618this ain’t heaven and we ain’t Jesus. We must hold people accountable for their actions with equal or higher consequences. There is no forgiveness in this life for a killer like that. We can only hope that he will never gets gods forgiveness in the after life.
I honestly wish they just did it more humanly. People often say it can’t be done but I really disagree. It’s definitely possible the problem is making both humane for the family and for the person being killed. Lethal injection is obviously the easiest to watch but really bad for the one being killed. Actually I think gun to the head is the best option because it’s by far the less painful, probably no pain at all actually since the place where the brain process pain is gone almost instantly depending on the gun, but it’s probably very scary since it’s sudden for the person rather than a “sleepy” death. I think properly administration of anesthetic followed by gun to head works. As for witnesses it’s the worse because gun to head is fucking traumatizing.
@@ager126 how is a gun shot to the head less painful and more humane?? do you understand some people survive gun shots to the head? did you know sometimes you dont die instantly but a few mins later. how is that ok? youd have to sit there with a painful gunshot wound for a few minutes. the lethal injection is a way better option to humanely put someone down because they first put the person under with an anesthetic like when you have surgery, so at that point you are asleep. then they use another drug to stop the heart. you wont be aware of this because you are, again, sleeping. basically youll go to sleep and just never wake back up. simple. why do you think people say when they get old, the wanna die in their sleep? its because its painless and you arent aware of it happening. gunshots are painful and messy. ive done some crime scene clean up and the crimes that happen by gun is so messy and horrific. theres alot of blood, brain matter and hair/scalp after a shot to the head. thats just not ideal. sorry i had to get graphic but i think its important to explain that.
@@nappssnapps2891 ooh this is only 14 hours old I can debate this!!! The lethal injection has the highest % of botched executions firing squad has the lowest. Using chemicals to kill someone humanley is very ineffective as different people need different amounts and the staff are not qualified in any way, they aren’t doctors or nurses. Too little of the first drug designed to ‘put you to sleep’ make it ineffective too much keeps you awake but paralyzes you meaning you die in Agony.
@@ager126 mam are you stupid. Legal injection makes sure the victim doesn't feel pain. Maybe you should do some research before you speak on things you obviously don't know about
@ager # Napps Snapps This is a hard one, 2 different opinions, it all depends, if you are lucky with just one gunshot to the head, you are gone instantly, but like you said, I have seen peope with múltiple gunshots to the head and living for hours, this guy was shot in the eye, right next to it, he did not loose the eye, the bullet was in his brain, and he was talking a little nonsense , and a headache, he was like that for over 2 days, the doctors saved his life, he developed seizures after that, lost that eye, and bc the bullet was in his brain for to long he developed a nasty brain infection. 2 years later he commited suicide. ( sorry I got out the topic ) but yeah people can survive gunshots to the head or die many hours later, its better to use a shotgun to make sure its fast and as painless as possible.
I understand the grief behind Grant’s brother, but I feel like he is downplaying what led his brother to this moment. He didn’t just kill two “hotel clerks”, he killed two people. Two people that had families and lives of their own. It is sad.
His brother didn't do anything and he doesn't owe you or anyone else meticulously prepared words. In my opinion you shouldn't demand things from those who've done nothing wrong. Leave the guy alone.
My father was an alcoholic and my childhood was traumatic to say the least and I ran from home at 14. I lived on the street for a couple of years. The fear of getting caught was more than the pain of hunger. I knew the only way to not get caught was to keep my nose clean and out of trouble. It worked and now at 61, I've had a pretty good life .
Same left at 14 drunk mom, meth cook absent father. I'm 28 now and trying to make am honest living, just bought a car, thought I had made it. But as life has it I had it for 2 weeks and it got stolen. I can see how people can turn, hurt causes you to hurt. But I just keep praying and working. My day will come. It can't rain all the time.
I was abused by my mother as a child. She sold me to grown males since I was 3 years old until 12. Never crossed my mind to use that as an excuse to hurt or kill another human being. For the contrary, I realized I should respect the law and the people, specially children
I was abused and kidnapped myself at a very young age. I not once thought of hurting or killing. It made me want to treat people how I wanted to be treated.
It must be terrible to lose your brother like that, but at least he could say goodbye to his family. His victims could not. They died gruesomly and for his own selfish reason.
@Joe-qm4yvlet god have mercy on ur soul go read the Bible u don’t have the right to cut someone else life but god will deal wit u and for u saying that u will have ur judgement wit god stay safe I hope u continue sleeping great at night💙🫶🏾🙏🏾
@@davidperry4013 In my personal opinion I wouldnt be. If my brother got killed and they would catch whoever did that. Nothing would make me find peace at all
Well said by both of you. All we can do is try to make the world a little better my being kind in our communities and help give the next generation guidance
I feel more bad for the two hotel employees who he killed for no fault of theirs whatsoever. He also killed them after they complied - I don't feel bad for him at all. But feel for his family.
@@based4indian2commie0slut69 it really shows the kind of person you are if you don’t think people can change. Maybe it’s harder in this hellhole country but people can definitely change and rehabilitate into society.
My parents were drug addicts and I was on my own at 14 sleeping in abandoned houses in Baltimore. I had absolutely no one. I never hurt anyone and now I own a construction company and have a wife and children. So yeah life is hard but I learned so much from the hardship.
I always say when life gives you hard times you can use them to make you better or bitter. I’m glad you used that as motivation to build a beautiful life for yourself friend❤️
people built different i remember when my dad leave us all, my sister didn't have any tears on, she didn't even shaken when heard the news. she's the only kids that loving by my father because she's his only daughter and she's youngest of all. she standing in the front when my father lowered but she's hardly looked sad different stories i know my neighbour and also my childhood friend, she had bad relationship with her parents, espicially her dad. his drunk behaviour often lead him to beat his only daughter, and she's grown into rebel behaviour. when her dad dead, she really flew 3 hour just to attend the funeral. she's crying so hard because he's already lowered and she didn't have proper goodbye. now she often stares blankly and often mumbling to herself
I applaud his brother Joseph for sharing details of their lives as children that you really want to leave in the past. Joseph made no excuses for his brother's actions but knew it was important to share how his brother got in this predicament. I definitely have sympathy for the families of the victims but l have sympathy for Joseph and his siblings. They too are victims.
This is a very mature view to have on this There's so many people here hiding behind justice and karma, when it just sounds like plain old vindictiveness It's even crazier to see Christians applauding his death, considering that I'm sure that nobody conducting the execution is "free of sin" to be casting the stone. By killing the criminal, they damn themselves.
true but look at it this way. His brother looks to be having a good life and a stable mind, why didn't he help his brother? I don't think he probably cared at all and nor did his other siblings. Terrorists also have traumatic pasts but you can't justify their actions because of their past. The inmate took the wrong path and he paid for his sins. This happened in 2001 which means he would be around 25 years old when he killed the 2 women at the hotel. He at least went to high school and had a chance to change his life or get help to overcome his childhood trauma. So it's not like he has been trapped in a room all his life and was brainwashed. He chose his path and took two women's life who were probably no threat to him during his robbery. He deserved this!! Please don't try to justify his actions because he was beaten in his childhood and treated like no one loved him. There are billions of kids that have similar childhood or probably worse but have a brain of their own to decide what's right or wrong. I was watching Vice News videos on North Korea right before this and that's why your comment seems even more stupid to me. North Korean citizens are the most controlled humans on the planet and there are still people who understand what's right and what's not and escaped from that nightmare.
My sister was raped and strangled when she was 21. My family did not want the death penalty. He’s still in prison. I’m also a court reporter and have reported 6 death cases. Although I do feel sorry for his family. At least they were able to say goodbye to him. When the inmate was saying he was afraid that they’d botch the killing of him, I have no sympathy for him. He certainly didn’t have any for this victims.
My cousin was strangled by her date when she was a teenager after she refused his sexual advances. Her killer got out after seven years due to a technicality. We all wanted him to get the chair (Kentucky), but he was released on a technicality after seven years. He soon killed himself during an autoerotic sex act. It was a fitting end for that pervert. Poetic even. The world's better off with him reduced to a husk. Sorry for your sister.
@@brendanolt00 it's neither an excuse nor a reason. Definetly a factor, but there are many who go through such trauma and much worse without committing the heinous atrocities that Donald Grant did. Vice is overestimating the relevancy of the murderer's background here. I'm not a fan of the death penalty, but there's little use in trying to understand why he did this through the "lense of trauma."
I use to be religious, now I’m just spiritual. Life will change you that way, seeing and experiencing will show you there’s something else…religion is great for those who need the structure but it’s not everything, I use to think religion was important, but it’s not. Spirituality is the key. This guy went back home.
@@luxgreen1277 I mean sure spirituality is important, but it is technically the same as religion when you start saying "he has gone home". Its an irrational belief with no evidence.
This was such a gripping piece, and I’m so grateful for his brothers visceral contribution. The perspective is something people rarely think about, but unimaginably painful, worth reflecting on
Even rarer to think about is the perspective of the victim's family, you know the truly innocent... i really wish we could've heard from them, i bet their side of it might not have sounded so sympathetic. Laws are what keeps the soft and easily led alive, and keeps the manipulators and murders at bay...
@@lmvirella1904 I see what you're saying, but most families who lose a loved one to a violent crime don't feel good when their murderer is put to death. It doesn't bring their loved ones back, and most of the time doesn't bring any form of closure to the whole situation. Life in prison is definitely terrible, but a lot of people feel like the death penalty is getting the easy way out of that punishment when their family member is the one killed. Nobody wins with the death penalty, and Donald's case was the best case scenario for the family of a victim because they knew for an absolute fact that Donald was the one who killed them, and why he did it. I really do think getting their perspective would've brought a lot more to the piece but at the same time I would totally understand if the families didn't want to be involved, because they get nothing but more pain out of it.
When someone chooses to commit a heinous crime, they so much pain to many more people than just their victims. Of course the most important people are the victims who've been directly hurt or killed & their family & friends but their pain & loss doesn't take away the validity of the pain of the perpetrators family & friends.
@@lmvirella1904 All loved ones of both the victims & perpetrator suffer greatly. The pain & suffering the perpetrators loved ones go through doesn't take away the pain & suffering from the victims or their loved ones & it doesn't minimise the awful crimes. When someone chooses to commit a heinous crime, they cause a lot of pain to many people, not just the victims & their family, although they are the most important people of the crime. We see a lot of the victims family & friends perspective in video programs & not near as often the perpetrators family & friends, this program highlighted their view this time. The perpetrators family & friends pain & loss is just as valid as the victims family. Their pain is different from different perspective, different experience etc but pain is pain & shouldn't be comparable or made invalid when they are also innocent of the crimes. Normally the perpetrators family & friends are forgotten about, loathed, bullied, harassed, judged etc for awful choices & actions they had nothing to do with, so not only do they deal with the pain of what their loved one did but also the loss of that loved one (varying degrees depending on the situation, country, laws) but also the opinions & actions of people hating them just because they are related or associated to the perpetrator. They also can't just turn off their love of someone they love dearly & their love doesn't minimise the crimes of the perpetrator, many people see loved ones love, pain & suffering as minimising what they did & that just isn't true. I have seen this as a community services worker & working with police. Please don't under estimate the pain & suffering of what the perpetrators family goes through because they are just as innocent as the victims loved ones. The pain & suffering of all the innocent people around the crime is valid.
This hit hard. Donald's brother clearly loved his brother & he articulated it without making excuses for him. Even In the face of even the states mock sympathy I saw his power; He handled Pain responsibly. I'm humbled by his example.
WOW , you 2 people totally missed what Life is about , I wouldn't give a $H1T about any family member of mine that MURDERED two women , He shot the first one and then stabbed her with a box cutter knife , The second woman he shot 3 times in the Face , She had to have a CLOSED casket funeral because of all the damage to her Face , How do you think her family members were feeling that day ? They couldn't even see their loved one being laid to rest because of this Violent piece of human Trash
Having a bad parent is no excuse for taking a innocent life or lives. I had a horrible childhood and it made me want to do better. I knew i never wanted to make anyone feel how i was made to feel. Sad that it causes some to go the other path.
You shouldn’t need any excuse not to be killed yourself. Sure he’s a monster and would probably hurt more people if he was out, but that doesn’t mean he can’t sleep and eat and get some exercise and read a book and play ping pong. He’s out of society, so the problem is already solved.
@@paulaccuardi9071 So we should pay for a monster to have a quality life? I wonder how you would feel if that was your parent, sibling, or child who was killed, would you still feel that way towards the murderer?
@@UNDERCOVER_E I think I would. I’ve been made to consider that kind of scenario before. Though I guess that kind of thing would put your mind in a totally different place if it were to happen to you, so maybe I wouldn’t. If it never happens, I would always tell you I would, and I’d genuinely think so.
Everyone reacts differently to trauma. Nobody who has grown up well, unless they have antisocial disorder, chooses to act violently or murder others. We as humans can pity this man while pitying his victims more.
My childhood was racked with my father's physical and emotional abuse. I too, was homeless and eating out of dumpsters for too many years. What I learned from that is that neither is sane nor dignified and most certainly, it's not love and that's what I came into being human to know and share. From experience I know that it's not what we're subjected to that makes us who we are, it's how we use it. Say NO to EVIL.
That’s awesome man! You can be proud of yourself for having learned that about being human. And for your capacity for forgiveness. It’s the only real way to be happy.
@@kmarieking12 I don't need nor do I want any sympathy. My testimony is about the responsibility of the choices we make, in regards to it making us who we are. Remember the voice you heard and the commitment you made at the instant before you became zygote. I do remember and live it.
I was beaten up for unimportant reasons as a child, father was not emotionally there, always serious faced. Mother treats father like he is the Lord of the house. So the ground below your feet was non-existent when you needed it. I grew up salty and jealous of kids with good parents. But no, I am NEVER letting the effects of abuse come out to see the light of the world. They will stay in me and will go to hell with me. Say no to evil.
As someone that works in social work/mental health, it always breaks my heart to see this stuff. Literally no one “wins.” The profound impact parents have on destroying any type of development kids have early-on just enrages me. When you’re constantly put through trauma as a child, it’s extremely hard to recover from that, even with how resilient kids are. Our brains are great at “surviving,” but not coping. Behavior can almost come off as “animal like” when people are surviving for so long. It leads them to do heinous things. It’s heartbreaking all the way around. Honestly, there’s things I know working in this field that gives me a perspective I wish I didn’t have. When you’re working with the people in society that society condemns and refuses to even try to understand, it’s a constant uphill battle. You’d be surprised to hear something called “intergenerational trauma” exists within genetics. All types of high risk behaviors can be tied back to trauma experienced throughout our lives, our grandparents lives, and our parents lives. Edit: yikes, I suppose I should’ve expected such a debate in the comments. This comment wasn’t to make “excuses” for anyone or anything-rather, simply a perspective based on knowledge, experiences, and years of education. What conclusions you choose to jump to is your prerogative. Things are much more complicated than many would like to acknowledge. I get it, we want closure by telling ourselves the situation was black-and-white, good vs. bad, and sometimes people really are just shitty humans, but when we ignore root causes of such behavior, we miss out on bettering our society by doing our due diligence in even working toward preventing things like this through understanding and breaking intergenerational and systemic issues. We’ve become so reactive in America and not proactive…
However he took two lives which denied their families of the right to be with their loves one's for the rest of their lives. I agree his Mom had much to so with his outcome, but in the end he made choices that got him on death row and executed. His family suffers as well and the victim's families. There is never an excuse to kill someone and I do think this guy would change it if he could, I feel justice was done overall for the victims themselves.
@@GM8101PHX of course he deserved to be punished for taking away 2 innocent lives. That's no something anybody is debating. It's the root of the cause. Just cause someone's a criminal it doesn't mean u can't talk about his back story as well. Discussions are important inorder to lower crime.
“I know my next life will be a better life.” I hope to God the same for those two poor hotel employees who spent their final moments in terror at the hands of a deranged addict.
Yes this is sad and difficult but he never expressed much remorse for his victims , whatever his background was, his victims and their families did not deserve to suffer for it.
I might be wrong but uh, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of days not included in this clip where it's quite possible he felt regret for his actions. That said I wasn't there and wouldn't know.
As a sympathetic person while I do feel sympathy for him, it's truly about the victims and the families involved. He murdered those women viciously and for no reason. That could've been anyone of our family members and I always remind myself of this when I feel sympathy for people like this. I won't get on here and talk bad though, I hope all families involved are at peace now.
Not to mention, they were two female hotel workers. They would’ve given him the $$ without a fight. Instead, he decided to brutally murder them. Unforgivable and who knows what other lives ended at the hands of this animal.
Maybe also remind yourself that it could be one of your family members that made a mistake. This isn't bringing back anyone from life, this is just creating more wounds, and celebrating blood lust, the kind that can actually lead to crimes. Glad I'm living in Europe, that parted ways with barbarism like that.
The last few moments of the death row person seem so much calmer and more humane than the painful, traumatic and frightening pure horrific last moments of their victim… ie being stabbed in the neck with a knife whilst at work or being robbed before being shot in the face three times… imagine leaving this earth in that way 😢
i think it's horrific in a different way, knowing far ahead of time exactly when you'll die can't be easy psychologically. let alone their close family having to deal with that as well
Retribution in the form of the death penalty, due to the delays and complexity of the process, does not appear to be a deterrent that prevents extreme violence. The offender has hurt not only the victim, but the victims family as well as their own. Selfish acts of extreme violence harm so many including society in general having to house individuals that are unable to be productive members of society. Poor parenting and lack of proper education has amplified the problem in our society.
its really hard to sympathize. I feel for him bcs he's the brother and i have a brother and i cant imagine that happening to my brother but then again the brother took away two lives for the most pettiest thing. i can only imagine how those families feel to have lost their loved ones.
It seemed like he had shown remorse and understood where did wrong as well though. Seeing as they didn't have bail, it's every bit as likely that his partner that he was trying to get bail for would also fall to a similar fate in the system too. It was obviously deep desperation and his two victims in now way deserved what he did to them.
Stories like these are tragic. What he did was awful, but just shows how drugs can destroy lives, even down the line. My parents separated when I was one and I was eventually placed into foster care at 11 due to my mom's meth addiction. I remember crying, but later feeling relieved I wouldn't have to live the way I did anymore. I'm 30 now with kids of my own and though life hasn't been easy, I sometimes wonder how bad my life would've been if I stayed with my mom. Unfortunately, my ex wife also had a drug problem, but I was able to get full custody so they wouldn't have to live through what I did. I knew a few people from foster care that are now either dead or in prison and I think to myself that could've easily been me.
so since you went though that you offed 2 people after you were already done robbing them? I'm sure you didn't because humans can easily have even worse trauma and never execute anyone let alone 2. He actively made the choice to kill them after the purpose of the crime ie robbing them. Because of that he deserved to die. deserved and will are different things and he got the will. I think the victims family should have sway over being able to reduce their sentence and i guess forgive them if that's what they need. and in todays courts they do mostly. But at the same time families that need that eye for a eye type deal shouldn't be made to feel like they caused the murderers death. Vice fucked up making this and basically gave a middle finger to the surviving family.
What's really sad is you sit here and defend and make excuses for criminals . . . Lots of people have hard lives and never resort to murder and crime . . . Been a murderer and a criminal is a choice that you make . . . In criminals don't get punished the way they should for their crimes . . . Because people like you just want to defend and justify their criminal behavior . . . Maybe you should go to the state prison and even go to death row and get these criminals to come to your house and babysit for you sometime or maybe get them a job at the school where your kids go . . . Since you seem to think these criminals are just poor little victims and just deserve a chance at a regular life . . . If you don't believe in punishment then don't cry about the crime .. . And that goes for crimes they might commit against you or your family . . . Instead of seeing these people for the criminals they are . . You just want to see them as poor little victims . . . And then wonder why crime is getting so bad and much worser nowadays .
My heart goes out to the families of those poor hotel workers murdered by this man, that poor woman shot in the face 3 times, the unimaginable pain they've experienced
Whilst the process of execution is morbid and the prisoner’s life circumstances are harsh. Many have been in his situation and not done what he did. Execution is correct in this situation.
@@BurgundySorcerer I completely agree. Even if you're not a proponent of the death penalty, in certain situations such as these it is the correct punishment.
Yeah. Vice telling such a one sided story. Tell the story of how that women begged for their lives. Tell thr story of how they where absolutely depraved of their innocence. F this man. Sorry
Hard disagree. I can't think of a worse punishment than "you are locked up forever and will never be released." It costs more money to execute someone than to lock them up for life. If someone did that to my loved ones I would want them to die. But hopefully in a modern society we can reach a point where no human does by the state, which is actually on all of our hands. You cannot begin to imagine all the death row inmates exonerated by DNA evidence. How many did we put to death unjustly? I am not religious, but _Thou shall NOT kill_ is a commandment. There is no asterisk next to that line. But hey, it's not like the commandments were written on stone or anything.
I just met a young woman that I knew when she was a waitress at another restaurant two years ago. At that time, she just found out she had breast cancer, she was a single mom with four children. She worked up until she started chemotherapy and radiation. I lost tract of her until a couple days ago. She told me she was cancer free and was in remission. She shared with me that her mother as a crack addict and was suffering from stage 4 cancer when I knew her at the other restaurant. Her mother died the day she started chemotherapy. She is a hard worker and has a very positive attitude on her life. You are given one life. It's up to YOU if you want to become a contributing positive individual or go through life playing the blame game.
You didn’t just meet the woman, you “reconnected” with her. You didn’t lose “tract” that’s not a word. You lost track. I loved the story/perspective and advice. Just hits less when it’s not grammatically correct.
@@Alexya-td4jeHow impressive you are to search through comments and find grammatical errors in someone's comment and totally overlook the heart in their comment. How many times have you broken your arm patting yourself on the back is what I'd like to know?
"If I could go back and change it I would. But I can't." I absolutely hate when people say that. It's such an empty, fake, meaningless statement. You aren't showing empathy.
Is sad to see how parents in the childhood of their children influence in a negative way and later in life that clearly affects their children and leads them to do these things.
@@ezze7540 because every single human reacts to trauma and abuse in the exact same way. Not saying that he doesn't deserve to be punished, but "there are thousands of children raised in worse situations and none of them became killers" is ignorant. There's thousands of people raised in BETTER conditions who also became killers, mass murderers, dictators.
@@ezze7540 we cannot compare such a thing. Everyone has a different perspective, different ways of receiving things and this has it's affects on different levels. Clearly his growing up had impacted his adulthood and we don't even know anything else that occurred in his life too.
@@ezze7540 There's a big undiscovered realm of suffering underneath the horrors of child abuse. We only see the tip of the iceberg of consequences. No more than the tip of the iceberg. You can't even imagine how bad it really is.
@@PukkaKeef Ok, and? Just because he had a hard life doesn't mean he can do what he did. I know so many people who've had horribly hard lives and they never even thought about killing somebody. When you do something like that you're not a victim anymore, you're a monster
Sad, for all involved. I can't speak for the mother who did not love her son. I am sorry for the boy who wanted and deserved his momma's love. I'm also sorry for the surviving family, the victims of the crimes and their families.
Although it is painful to see he was executed . But on the other hand . He shot two women . He stabbed a woman’s neck multiple times and shot the other woman in the face multiple times . Imagine how painful it is for the women ? He needed the money but not only he choose murder to get it but also he choose murder in the most brutal way
@@johnbarry8283 even if he chooses murder is it even necessary to stab someone’s throat multiple times or shoot someone’s face multiple times ? The women experienced very very painful death . And I understand he needs the money , he couldnt get it but in this case he can rob them . Put them to sleep yet he chooses to kill them
well.. yeah. but in the end we have to agree that the US judical system and pro-profit prisons are messed up af. most interned people per capita... and over a third of the people leaving prison return to it in less than 5 years... for such a country to also have the death penalty is just... scary. i know death seems fair but giving the state the right to kill is.... wwelll... ,ets just say there are good reasons why so many nations stopped it..
@@johnbarry8283 I am only against death penalty because sometimes wrongful conviction happens . Innocent people or people who are mentally ill and commited minor crimes gets executed because justice system got the wrong person . But not his case , he actually did it
Oz. Yes sympathies to the victims and their families of this heinous crime I am a born again Christian but I am not against the death penalty because I am a scripture driven Bible believing woman since I was 16 years old and when the Bible says an eye for an eye that's exactly what it means and that's why we need to follow the scripture! That's the way I believe I know other people don't feel that way but I am sorry for this convicts family I don't care for his I don't want to eat your cookies I and drink your water! The victims in this crime will never eat cookies or ever drink water again and you are I'm sorry smug enough to make this about yourself God help you
You really could have kept that to yourself. This video is clearly about the inmate and his brother's feelings throughout the process. His brother didn't commit a crime. My sympathy goes out to Donald and his family being victims themselves.
Agree totally…it’s amazing that criminals are so worried about the possibility of ‘pain and suffering’ during their own deaths but are unable to equate any of it to what they did to their victims. Sympathy to the victims of the crime and sympathy to the murderer’s family, who were also victims of his heinous crimes too.
As someone who has been incarcerated I can tell you those last 35 days must’ve felt like 10 years. You get into a routine years go bye kind of at a quick pace but when you break that routine time just drags. So they take that man’s TV with 35 days left and essentially put them in the hole (the box, segregation whatever you know it as) those last 35 days were the longest he’s faced. I can’t imagine sitting in my cell alone with nothing to pass the time but to add the fact that you know you’re going to die must have been a tough 35 days. Makes me feel bad and don’t get me wrong I’m not saying what he did was right nor am I ignoring the pain of the victims and their families it just makes me feel bad or sad I guess. The whole thing was kind of surreal for me. They serve food like it was a show. Idk I’m not against the death penalty for some cases I believe that some cases is a just cause for it but to see it in this light makes me think and that’s why I’m a BIG fan of Vice news. I think they hit it out of the park more often then most news agencies
I can't even imagine how long it would feel as those days dragged by. It's almost like they take the things away to force them to dwell on what it going to happen and replay what got them there 1000 times over and over in their head...damn, it's a sad situation all the way around.
@@ka3097 I agree with you I think you’re right I think the food is probably towards the family of the victims makes sense but you’re right where do you draw the line. I don’t know if it’s something to try to make people comfortable but you shouldn’t feel comfortable you’re watching somebody’s life be taken away even if proven guilty.
What both sides? This is in its most basic purpose is just to document what an execution is like, and what the family of a convicted would feel and experience. Though out the video all the gruesome crime committed by grant was mentioned so there's no need for sympathy manipulating.
@@juch3 I suppose you're right. The victims & their families don't deserve any sympathy. Their lives don't really matter nor the horrible way in which they were murdered. The cold blooded murderer deserves compassion & the victims, hey, who cares, right? They didn't deserve to live a full life (like you or I) did they?
@@jaydibernardo4320 who are you replying to exactly? Because I never wrote whatever that is in your reply, I'm saying this is a documentary about the process of capital punishment in the US, not a documentary about Donald grant and his criminal activities and how it affected his victims.
@@juch3 I replied to your post & in particular when you wrote there was no need for sympathy manipulation (for the victims) since this video is about capital punishment in the US. To me that came across as rather cold blooded with little regard for the victims & familes & I would argue that this video was, in its own way a form of manipulation.
I get how “unjust” this penalty should be, but people don’t get executed for peanuts. He very likely could not have had to execute those two employees and did it anyway and the courts did not see remorse in his demeanor. He brutally murdered two people, don’t forget how those families are affected.
I completely see your point. But I don't believe that a state/nation should kill people as a penalty, it solves nothing. Bringing people back into life, or treating them in order to solve some of their issues, would do much more justife to the preciousness of human life
The death penalty is mostly useless, not because its cruel, but because its too easy on them. Life in prison would make them suffer like they made the victims and the victims' families did
Yea but there is such thing as reasonability: when very bad things happen to you it may lead to you doing very bad things. This will not act as an excuse but as a kind of explanation which should lessen the consequences. In other words: if someone harasses you, insults you and provoques you for halt an hour, and after many attempts to stop him peaceauffly, you decide to slap him, it should be taken into consideration what happend to you before that action. It obviously is quite a different example but still similar in the term of reasoning. You think you wouldve lived a normal "peaceful" life if you were him? And if yes? Do you think all the other 17 people liking this comment would have? I doubt it...
@@vincentquehenberger6556 I believe you simply didn't understand my comment. Those innocent souls had nothing to do with his crazy upbringing. His parents should be held accountable. Would you react same way if any of these victims were someone close to you?
@@vinayrajkhunti5988 if you say his parents should be held accountable, i agree But in your first comment you clearly implied that he should also be held accountable with which i also agree but only to a far less far point, because of said upbringing.
I agree, this video shows his remorse and the aftermath but that doesn't erase the fact he took away 2 lives. his brother turned out fine so why didn't he? I worded it wrong but truthfully there had to be other options. oh well, to each their own. I'm sending my condolences to all 3 families
@@3reaper and you know that how? this video is about his brother's execution so obviously they wont talk about the eldest brother's past. even if he wasn't beaten, watching your mom beat your brother and not being able to do anything is just as traumatic
When people have trauma or accidents, injuries, bad relationships.. not everyone can come out of those things ok, it impacts people differently.. for e.g some people look for revenge and others move on with life.. there are a lot worse people in power that commit a lot worse crime
I agree. Trauma causes a lot of things, but slicing somebody's neck from ear to ear and shooting somebody else 3 times in the face is not a natural progression. That's entirely something else.
Its very eerie how this video almost presents the inmate as a victim "of the state", especially with his brother nitpicking the whole thing. He killed people and not once did he apologize
Your brother chose his path and thereby the consequences of his actions. He could have just robbed the place and left, but he made the decision to kill two innocent people instead by shooting them in the face and head to ensure they died. I grew up with no father. He did not want me or anything to do with me. Every human being alive have faced difficult times and experiences in their lives, but that is no excuse to harm others.
The 2 people he killed in cold blood never got a chance to say good bye. They suffered and were frightened. They were helpless. I feel that this man's upbringing was a cop out. You can better yourself. You can make better choices. I had a shocking childhood too. Horrible way to grow up. But you seek to do better and show the love and kindness you never got.
A part of me feels bad for someone being put to death, but the other part of me understands that that person put themselves in that place. I've only been on this earth for 30 years, but so far I've found it incredibly easy not to take an innocent person's life, let alone two.
But if you remember he did have a very rough upbringing he probably wasn’t mentally stable because of his mom so in part I feel as if his mom had an impact on his life decisions… Therefore people who have never been in that kind of situation would never know how it felt. I think he really just wanted someone to love him the way a mother should have loved her kid and he went too far due to past trauma trying to chase that love he never received. Truly just a sad world we live in😞
@@luhmary5636 but we do and when two muslims behead A guy on the streets of london in front of multiple witnesses and cameras should they just get life in prison it cost £80,000 to keep a prisoner for a year still talking millions of pounds to keep them locked up shouldn’t they just be executed the next day and that money to go towards so many programs to help people
I felt bad until they mentioned the double homicide on innocent hotel clerk. He got the money why’d he kill them too? Your childhood trauma is not an excuse and the responsibility of an innocent life to pay for. Where was the all live matters protesting when he shot and stabbed the two? Just to get bail on his probably cracked up how as gf Everyone makes mistakes but an armed robbery and double homicide isn’t “a mistake”. He got a much more humane death than his victims.
@@Coz131 u can't say they never had chance.. I grew up from a very harsh environment... I never saw my dad's face.. N here i am now serving my country. Think about the victims n how that dude killed them
@@Coz131 they weren't "built" right is no excuse. Everyone goes through struggles. Even those he killed, all had struggles. But he had a choice. He chose to kill. Now, good riddance!
This is just a matter of justice. He not only killed two people but killed them in a very cruel way. He died a much easier death than what he inflicted on those two women. He did not have to kill them, could have tied them up and just taken the money and left. I understand he had a tough childhood but look at his brother, his brother turned out to be a fine member of society, a good person. So the tough childhood is no excuse. God bless him and the two women that he murdered so needlessly......prayers to all involved.
I just watched this and walked over to my 10 month old son and just thought how much i need to love and protect this sweet smiling little boy. How i hope he is not exposed to the kind of trauma that will put him down a destructive path. Love is not a weakness. It is the biggest strength one can have. To show love to this world, to show love to each other. This is the bonafide solution to our self created destruction.
This man put a nife through someone's neck , and shot the other directly in the face . And vice tryin make us sympathize for him 😐 . My mom and father were both in jail when I was six . I seen my brother and sister be rapped. I was homeless 5 different times as a minor. Including once in mexico 🇲🇽 . I never robbed or killed. I grew up and worked for a. Living.
Humans aren’t all the same, everyone takes situations in different ways and traumatic events can mess people up mentally which can lead to people committing crimes like that
@@supersinger234 watch the video again. Pay attention to the narrative, sad . Sad music 🎶 sad story. Its all in a effort to trigger your feelings . Its called " emotional appeal " . No sad song with a sad back drop or sad past will excuse a human who took the lives of 2 innocent people who are the real victims. Imagine getting a call at 2 a.m saying your loved was gunned down in cold blood. Or that your mother was stabbed through the neck. Use your common sense and block out the narrative , thats the only was way you can see clearly brother. The sad music and sad backdrop pushed the narrative of emotional appeal. I learned that in 6th grade reading class
@@supersinger234 Right! Like this poor man was obviously a victim of white priveledge! Free him! LMAO feeling sorry for this pos. Hope he did get "botched"
😪 The whole story : his mother using drugs, the physical and emotional abuse from his mother, the living on the streets, trying to get money to bail out his girlfriend, the horrific murder, and ultimately his execution - is so horrible. It seems like there were so many places where there could have and should have been some intervention. This did not need to happen. 😪
Dont get fooled by this. Listen to him, what he tells us. How hard his life was. What struggles he went through, what motivated him to do the robbery. That he is afraid of execution. That he knows pain and how hard life is. He says he would change his actions if he could. Think about: Why? He didnt talk a second about his victims. Not even in the last minute. Only about himself. He would only change his actions because they have hurt himself, not because of his victims. This is an evil man who does not truly regret what he did.
@@sonyxperiasmk I agree that nothing excuses murder. I don't agree that we can know if he is truly sorry. Sadly there is just no way to know for sure. Also, there is no way to know if his life led him to be able to commit murder or if that is just the way he was born. Still, I don't think that I could ever recommend the death penalty. Killing is killing, no matter what.
@@AmericanPatriot5 Wait until it's your family member. Prison has its place, but it's attitudes like yours sucks down an immense amount of my tax dollars.
Years of living a dangerous life has taught me that a tough man knows when and how to get out of a situation, but a smart man never gets himself into one.
Before I learned his crimes I felt empathetic towards him due to his childhood. But when I heard of his crimes and description, I was disgusted. Those crimes are heinous and despicable. Who could kill another person. I don't know if he felt remorse or not but I will assume not as he was given the death penalty. But regardless of remorse or not. That does not change he ended the life of 2 individuals. I do however feel empathetic toward the inmates brother, he watched his brother die and slowly die. That must have been hard to watch. It is really saddening to see people actually do this. People actually murder others for money, rather then doing the work. If you do the work it is always rewarding in the end. I wish you all a good day and the best.
He had no remorse, and no honour. If he had honour, he wouldn't allow the state to execute him, but would have taken the initiative to do it himself, and not cost the innocent taxpayers of Oklahoma 60k USD a year to incarcerate him.
He spent his entire life In jail for what he did... Why spend your last day saying how sorry you are for it, when you're about to die for it! GET OVER IT KAREN.. If you're so concerned, say sorry for him.
@@tavionakeys2934 Because he had a chance to make an impact with those words, show some remorse remembered by the whole world forever, some redemption at any rate. Speaking to a reporter wouldve been a godsend to any truly remorseful person. Occam and his razor would probably agree that he didnt say how sorry he was because he wasnt; babbling on about his afterlife, coming from the Milky way, hoping his next life will be better. One chance to not kill people in this life, and then a chance to show the world he is sorry and remorseful. Squandered everything for XYZ reasons.
@@opticalman6417yea the way I see it everything is the mothers fault. If she didn't beat him and make him crazy at a young age he wouldnt have been a criminal. The brother seems very level headed
@@warriorspanthersblackhawks4651He choose to kill those people, there are plenty of other people who have been through worse and didn’t kill people. Mother was apart of it but it’s his fault.
@@JusttSarinaaexactly ! Things happen that make us do things but once you’re an adult and not living at home you are the one who decides what you’re doing !
There are hundreds of thousands of us out there who went through abuse and we didn’t go on to murder and inflict pain and horror on others My cousin was brutally murdered and I wanted his killers to get the death penalty and they didn’t and that hurts
I’ll never understand these comments. Ofc people react to trauma differently….we’re not robots. A lot of different factors come into play, including genetics & brain chemistry. Some people can overcome it, some become self destructive & take it out on themselves, while others take it out on the world. There’s no “one size fits all” for people, especially children who’ve gone through horrific abuse. That’s not an excuse, they still need to be held accountable, but just because you react to something one way, doesn’t mean every other human who’s been through something similar can follow suit. Bad things are always going to happen because humans are extremely flawed beings .
@@isitoveryet9525 That's called being evil and true scum of the earth if they go hurting, harming or killing people no matter WHAT happens or has happened to them in their live, it's excuses so 🛑 making excuses for the true EVILNESS!!
@@isitoveryet9525I completely agree with this. Everyone reacts differently to situations because every human being is different. How one person would react to a situation could be the complete opposite to another.
I just can’t feel sorry for someone who viscously, and senselessly killed 2 young girls for no reason… he was worrying about suffering, but stabbed his victim in the neck, and shot them 3 times in the face.. and left them for dead… though I don’t think it should be anyones choice who dies, and when.. but what do you do in a situation like this.. HE MADE HIS DECISION. Godspeed man💙
Unfortunately, as humans we haven’t figured out that we need to greet this kind of viciousness with the same. It’s unfortunate as a civilization we don’t punish these people the same way they’re victims get punished doesn’t make any sense to me
@ArielthePom: Your statement is ignorant. Unless you know Thanos personally and witnessed Thanos committing murder, or heard a confession, your statement is ignorant. (In addition to being grammatically incorrect)
@@privatename2648 I don’t owe you anything this isn’t a interview. So therefore I don’t care. And my opinion still stands. 2 wrongs do not make a right. And it’s not up to us to judge anyone, that’s up to God.
Yeah, nothing that shows in these video interests me... it didnt show the victims and their families, which is the only thing that matters in this whole case...
I feel sorry for his family but he showed no compassion when he murder those 2x hotel employees. They also complied with his demands and he still brutally stabbed one in the neck repeatedly. And shot the other one in the head. Sorry Vice you will not get sympathy from me. You showed no compassion you will get no compassion
I agree, but putting someone to death on purpose is still and always will be murder, they have a million correctional facilities, why not build one more to house individuals that won't ever walk free on earth as long as they live
People don’t know what I’m talking about when I say that if it wasn’t for my grandparents I would’ve grown up to be a serial killer. The abuse I suffered growing up this sexual abuse the trauma affected me so much as a young man it still affects me to this day. When I was growing up I did not know there was any kindness in the world and I think God I found some before I truly made a mistake I wouldn’t be able to fix. It breaks my heart that so many of these men who Are incarcerated went through so many similar things they never had a chance. I’m very torn because I also understand how precious and beautiful life is and to snuff that out and take that from another human being and their family it’s just it can’t be without punishment I’m not sure anyone’s life is ever justified to be taken though Edit: we all have darkness in us. We all are capable of horrible things. Some of you shouldn’t judge so easily.
@@ALotOfCancer you can dismiss Rico’s words as much as you’d like. The fact is you haven’t experienced the level of hurt that people like Grant has inflicted on families. Death is the only answer for evil. You are just talking out of a place of ignorance
I feel for the victims, but also for the families of those executed. They’re put in a dreadful situation through no fault of their own. Must be a nightmare…
@DetroitThrowers100% is a stretch and you know it half of the time they really don’t seem to be but ofc I feel more sorrow for the victims who definitely didn’t see it coming
I can understand a brother being upset about his brother's execution. But the victim's family is 'upset' too. And Donald Grant didn't 'kill to eat' as he maintains. He killed for bail money for his girlfriend. I'm a fairly hardened guy, but killing for bail money is one of the most trivial and pointless murders ever. Grant earned his way to the execution chamber, no matter how hard his childhood was.
@@swank8392 I agree with you about his childhood, but at no point is it an excuse for murder. Everybody has 'circumstances', but you don't get a pass on killing because you were poor and unloved.
What's up with your first sentence? I haven't seen any comments that indicate that the victims' (plural btw) families aren't, or don't have the right to be upset. This is a piece from the brother's point of view. Also "kill to eat" is an expression. We all heard the part where he literally killed for bail money. Stop tearing this piece apart with a very messy analysis.
@@jammzy2959 Respectfully, I don't see where disagreeing with Grant's justifications for his crimes is 'messy' or inappropriate. I take no issue with how Grant's brother feels. He's got every right in the world to feel that way. And I don't think there's anything wrong with empathy for a convict, provided that you don't lose empathy for the victim in the process. Where I depart from the narrative is Grant's claim that he ought to get away with murder because of a lousy childhood. Grant didn't kill to survive. He killed for convenience's sake, and for that crime he was sentenced to death. As far as I'm concerned, that's an appropriate sentence. Grant forfeited the right to work and play with others.
Shame his victims couldn't prepare to depart their families like he had the chance to. This is a disgrace. Trying to garner sympathy for a cold blooded killer. Is this what journalism is these days. It's an insult to the victims and their loved ones
I'm sorry I feel no compassion for him. You took the lives of two innocent people for no reason. They gave you the money and you still took their lives for no reason you deserve this this is what happens. You must pay the consequences of your actions
Everyone is not as strong as you. Not everyone thinks like you. Not everyone can just get over it and keep moving like you. Sometimes in life as a Human you have to come from a place of understanding.
My heart goes out to the families of the victim, as well as the family of the murderer *because* of how painful it is to see your sibling be an entirely different person than when you were younger, and to see such a violent and hated part of the them makes the good parts only hurt more. So all around, it becomes extremely painful for everyone.
I feel badly for the criminal's family, but most of all for the families of those women. How would you like to get stabbed with a box cutter in the neck? That takes a special kind of depravity. He deserved the DP. sorry.
Yes, I agree. What Grant did to his victims was horrific. His brother freely admits Grant’s crimes were “heinous,” which of course they were. Of course my heart goes out to the victims’ families. I know it could be argued that at least Grant got to say goodbye to his brother, unlike his victims, which is again true, but the whole horrible situation James found himself in was NOT of his choosing. He never murdered anybody. He isn’t responsible for his brother’s actions. I see it more like James, who has done no wrong, got the chance to say goodbye to his brother, not the other way around. James is a victim of his brother’s atrocious crimes as well.
After she had already given him the money. He killed her just for fun. He's a piece of human feces who did not deserve to breathe. No sympathy for that monster.
Yeah you got it the only real injustice here is there are worse people than him who are more than free… even his brother did not really argue with his sentence…
Telling his childhood is to give context on what could lead to someone committing such a heinous crime. I only have sympathy for the victims and their families but I understand how a traumatic childhood could bring out the worse in people, none the less I hope the victim families have a bit of closure now.
@@manmanopoly8047 Sorry but the "terrible childhood" backstory won't make the victims' families enclosed and understanding. It will feel like an excuse to them. The backstory doesn't matter. They lost their family, their daughters, their wives, whatever. No one cares if he had a bad childhood. Knowing that doesn't help anyone. He still took 2 lives when he was an adult and could have decided against that. THAT's what matters.
Death penalty does not work as deterrent and costs more than life in prison. Nor does it reverse the crime committed. And it requires producing and maintaining infrastructure and procedure of killing citizens, not something civilized country should have.
While yes it costs more money and doesn't deterrent, it's still the right fit punishment in my opinion. And I think the day you kill someone is the day you die or deserve it. Taking a life is a choice and there's simply no excuse apart from self defence. The man killed 2 women working their normal shift for money. Regardless if it costs money or not, regardless if he got life in prison or death row, the man made a choice to murder. I think the punishment fits the crime.
As a French lawyer who is of course against the death penalty, I disagree with you. It works, at least in Singapore. You can tell that's completely different, that al lot of things don't apply there, but still : it's a country with death penalty which is mostly avoided by drug traffic thanks to that. Like it or not, that's the (sad) truth.
@@ftsupreme1483 there's a reason why we have punishments set by people not involved with the crime. Otherwise many crimes would be punished by brutal violence. A society is judged not just how it treats it best but also it's worst. To murder a murderer makes us no better as in fact we are going out of our way spending much more to do it.
Donald broke the laws, ESPECIALLY killing INNOCENT people, then he DESERVED to go to death row and paying the price for it WIGHOUT sympathy. He didn't have to kill 2 innocent victims just because he wanted money, what he did was cold blooded and evil. His brothers sound about 1/2 inch off from his same mentality. Donald also doesn't have a clue about what happens after this life. That's the problem with a lot of society, that there are severe consequences for living outside of a relationship with Jesus before wronging, or killing somebody, then paying the price for it. There's a REASON this country was FOUNDED UNDER the Judeo CHRISTIAN faith.
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@Silly Goose hi
He got what he deserved. But it takes far too long at the expense of Florida taxpayers
Thank you Governor for signing the death sentence
@Silly Goose What's good
Reported for misleading title (Br./aea./in./de./ea./ad thief).
Message to everyone :
If youre gonna be a parent, keep in mind that YOU decided to give life to someone. Your children do not owe you, YOU owe them everything.
Facts
Well said! God bless
agreed
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@@somnuswaltz5586 its not tho. Read up on what a quote means
I hate how parents can cause so much trauma and damage towards their children. Imagine how much less violence and hurt in the world there would be if children didn't learn hate and fear over love.
Wake up some are just evil.
And government’s
Parents actions isn't responsible for your actions or your choice to be at the least a plain good human being
@@shanemyrick5432 Well idk because I grew up in the tail end of the crack era, and if you are surrounded by that kind ugliness it's hard especially when you don't have any type of support. I think of myself as a decent person, and even though i didn't have much I had good people around who cared, but some people don't have that.
@@chillasweet879 I don't remember where I heard this but the most important thing any kid can have is someone who they think is there for them and cares about them. If a kid doesn't have this it will lead to all sorts of issues in their life. I too had a difficult childhood which greatly affected me and my life has been a challenge because of it. I'm lucky to be where I'm at but the people in this thread are hard and don't want to understand how an abusive childhood affects people. You show me someone who has issues like drug abuse or violence and I'll show you someone who grew up in difficult circumstances.
I'm glad you had some decent people in your life.
When your mother says they wish they didn't have you, it destroys you as a child
I know that feeling. It's devastating
Yes..or when she says she hates you.
Yea. and when she punches you in the face and calls you a little fat girl.
Have been thru that it's hard
Or when your mother applies to the authorities to have the custody of you revoked. That happened to my kids. When she - the mother - finally committed suicide, all agreed that it was the best for all. Both her mother and her children.
@@ChefPelle ya alright mate? Sounded like a deathly relationship... wanna chat? (Honest question)
I noticed he didn't apologize for killing 2 people.
Not a word of remorse. It was all about him.
Yup. So I didn't feel sorry for him.
In my opinion, he doesn't belong in human society
@@ralphtkane1106 At least he's gone.
He was hangry, my man. How is capital punishment anything other than state sanctioned homicide.
Because he doesn't care. Narcissistic monster.
This story hit hard man. My mom was addicted too, my father was the dealer. As a kid I can remember just begging to be loved, seeking attention and just yearning for that feeling of being wanted. Still struggle with believing I’m loved to this day.
You are loved, brother. Your own body loves the soul that makes up who you are, so love yourself first. Never forget that...
and who did you shoot in the face?
You are loved Elsahn by many more people than you think.
I hear that. Does it justify you going out to kill anyone. We all have to work and deal with our demons.
@@0801161215 doesn't justify it but certainly gives a valid reason why he would tho. Psychological scars are just as prominent if not more than physical scars
Hi. I'm Joe Robinson, Donald Grant's eldest sibling. As you can imagine, the past several months have been very difficult emotionally and psychologically for me and my family. And I can only imagine how difficult it has been for the loved ones of the two young women who's life was ended at the hands of my brother. As far as I am concerned, it is tragic all around. I appreciate all of the thoughtful comments that I've read about the interview. It's heartening to know that despite the tragedy surrounding this and other death penalty cases that some people are able to find the humanity in it.
God bless you, brother.
Be strong 🙏
@@LisaS483 Thank you. That means a lot.
@@ibrahimcoulibaly4085 Thank you.
@@joerobinson417 I personally do not believe in the death penalty. It doesn't just punish the perpetrator but also other innocent people such as his/her family. I can't imagine going through what you did. All love to you!
Nothing unsettles me more than the thought of being strapped to a bed about to die, my family watching me, and knowing I wasted my life. It's not even scary it's just truly depressing. It makes me grateful for my life.
Watching my brother strapped to a gurney and take his last breath was the hardest thing I've ever experienced. My heart goes out to anyone who experiences this!
@Overlord Femto as is everyone's
@@joerobinson417 translation: My heart goes out to all the brutal murderers that earned their sentence.
@@joerobinson417 ♥️♥️♥️
@@joerobinson417 Sir I just noticed when you joined UA-cam. Did you make a channel to do this? If so, thanks for making your opinion heard
"I'm concerned that they will make me suffer" - guy who stabbed someone in the neck with a box cutter before shooting someone in the face 3 times
Everyone has an right to suffer.
and even more funnier part, the protestors protesting "all life is precious" at the gate. i dont think thats what he thought while murdering multiple people.
@@lxn860 yes he did wrong in killing someone, but if you agree that he did wrong then you don't do him the same thing. Because if you do you are a hypocrite and as cruel as he was.
Well Said 👏
@@margaridavelhinho1618this ain’t heaven and we ain’t Jesus. We must hold people accountable for their actions with equal or higher consequences. There is no forgiveness in this life for a killer like that. We can only hope that he will never gets gods forgiveness in the after life.
At least this man had the chance to see his family and say his words for the last time.
Always remember that his 2 victims never had that chance.
I honestly wish they just did it more humanly. People often say it can’t be done but I really disagree. It’s definitely possible the problem is making both humane for the family and for the person being killed. Lethal injection is obviously the easiest to watch but really bad for the one being killed.
Actually I think gun to the head is the best option because it’s by far the less painful, probably no pain at all actually since the place where the brain process pain is gone almost instantly depending on the gun, but it’s probably very scary since it’s sudden for the person rather than a “sleepy” death. I think properly administration of anesthetic followed by gun to head works. As for witnesses it’s the worse because gun to head is fucking traumatizing.
@@ager126 how is a gun shot to the head less painful and more humane?? do you understand some people survive gun shots to the head? did you know sometimes you dont die instantly but a few mins later. how is that ok? youd have to sit there with a painful gunshot wound for a few minutes. the lethal injection is a way better option to humanely put someone down because they first put the person under with an anesthetic like when you have surgery, so at that point you are asleep. then they use another drug to stop the heart. you wont be aware of this because you are, again, sleeping. basically youll go to sleep and just never wake back up. simple. why do you think people say when they get old, the wanna die in their sleep? its because its painless and you arent aware of it happening. gunshots are painful and messy. ive done some crime scene clean up and the crimes that happen by gun is so messy and horrific. theres alot of blood, brain matter and hair/scalp after a shot to the head. thats just not ideal. sorry i had to get graphic but i think its important to explain that.
@@nappssnapps2891 ooh this is only 14 hours old I can debate this!!! The lethal injection has the highest % of botched executions firing squad has the lowest. Using chemicals to kill someone humanley is very ineffective as different people need different amounts and the staff are not qualified in any way, they aren’t doctors or nurses. Too little of the first drug designed to ‘put you to sleep’ make it ineffective too much keeps you awake but paralyzes you meaning you die in Agony.
@@ager126 mam are you stupid. Legal injection makes sure the victim doesn't feel pain. Maybe you should do some research before you speak on things you obviously don't know about
@ager # Napps Snapps This is a hard one, 2 different opinions, it all depends, if you are lucky with just one gunshot to the head, you are gone instantly, but like you said, I have seen peope with múltiple gunshots to the head and living for hours, this guy was shot in the eye, right next to it, he did not loose the eye, the bullet was in his brain, and he was talking a little nonsense , and a headache, he was like that for over 2 days, the doctors saved his life, he developed seizures after that, lost that eye, and bc the bullet was in his brain for to long he developed a nasty brain infection. 2 years later he commited suicide. ( sorry I got out the topic ) but yeah people can survive gunshots to the head or die many hours later, its better to use a shotgun to make sure its fast and as painless as possible.
I understand the grief behind Grant’s brother, but I feel like he is downplaying what led his brother to this moment. He didn’t just kill two “hotel clerks”, he killed two people. Two people that had families and lives of their own. It is sad.
A brother's grief doesn't take away from what he did. Unless you allow it.
And he killed them in the most barbarac way he could with no thought of how they felt.
His brother didn't do anything and he doesn't owe you or anyone else meticulously prepared words. In my opinion you shouldn't demand things from those who've done nothing wrong. Leave the guy alone.
No one wins here, in situations like this there are only victims, including the communities and society as a whole.
I don't get that he's downplaying the crime.
My father was an alcoholic and my childhood was traumatic to say the least and I ran from home at 14. I lived on the street for a couple of years. The fear of getting caught was more than the pain of hunger. I knew the only way to not get caught was to keep my nose clean and out of trouble. It worked and now at 61, I've had a pretty good life .
I'm sorry you went through that. Starvation is a powerful feeling
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Peace&love from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I hope your life is now filled with tranquility.
God bless you!
Same left at 14 drunk mom, meth cook absent father. I'm 28 now and trying to make am honest living, just bought a car, thought I had made it. But as life has it I had it for 2 weeks and it got stolen. I can see how people can turn, hurt causes you to hurt. But I just keep praying and working. My day will come. It can't rain all the time.
I was abused by my mother as a child. She sold me to grown males since I was 3 years old until 12. Never crossed my mind to use that as an excuse to hurt or kill another human being. For the contrary, I realized I should respect the law and the people, specially children
I’m so deeply sorry you went through that.❤
you should take her to court if she did it to you gd knows what else she can do
My goodness this broke my heart. I am so sorry and i pray you are finding peace in your life. ❤️🩹
I was abused and kidnapped myself at a very young age. I not once thought of hurting or killing. It made me want to treat people how I wanted to be treated.
Damn I bet your ass whistles when you fart
It must be terrible to lose your brother like that, but at least he could say goodbye to his family. His victims could not. They died gruesomly and for his own selfish reason.
2 wrongs don’t make it right
If my family member got murdered, yeah I’d be pissed in courtroom. However, I will be satisfied with the killer getting a 20 year prison sentence.
@Joe-qm4yvlet god have mercy on ur soul go read the Bible u don’t have the right to cut someone else life but god will deal wit u and for u saying that u will have ur judgement wit god stay safe I hope u continue sleeping great at night💙🫶🏾🙏🏾
@@davidperry4013 In my personal opinion I wouldnt be. If my brother got killed and they would catch whoever did that. Nothing would make me find peace at all
@@youngprince600yt3 you’re god is not my god. My gods are cruel and demand blood and vengeance 😉😘😘
Watching this make you feel like you are witnessing the event. GIves you anxiety, at the same time. I feel sad for his victims.
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Not me . I got 4 screamingAss Pizza ads while watching it. I think anyone who makes us go through all these ads should be executed!
Well said by both of you. All we can do is try to make the world a little better my being kind in our communities and help give the next generation guidance
@@ascheuring1 if I was president I would allow public executions esp if it's a person who harms a child or animals or brutal killlers
@Apeman Commeth Seems kinda sick to watch a loved one executed. But the USA is a sick society.
I’m so sorry he had such a rough life. However, it doesn’t absolve him from taking other people’s lives.
The absolute worst part is they begged for their lives n he still killed the 2 women , sooo sad 😑
Most people pay for the wrong they did.
Obviously none of the other siblings killed and they were raised in the same house.
OKST got it right
@@chrisgraham8711 how is that obvious
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Imagine focusing on his family and not the victim's
Selfish
Stupid Kim Kardashian did that w another inmate
What do you mean though I live a good life?What if my sister murdered somebody?I would feel all types of things.My life's ruined too
So heartbreaking for the victims, their families and the family of Mr Grant. No one won here.
Society won by taking this POS out.
Indeed, tragedy all around.
everybody else won, one less killer on the street
What about the families of the two people he senselessly killed?
@@ashtonhatfield3104 they lost their family members so it's not a win
I feel more bad for the two hotel employees who he killed for no fault of theirs whatsoever. He also killed them after they complied - I don't feel bad for him at all. But feel for his family.
My thoughts exactly. They were taken from their families by this murderer...
100% and in his last words he didn't even show sympathy for his victims or their families. Can't feel bad for him.
The death penalty is stupid. Why inflict more injury and death?
@@s.howard9404 Injury and death of killers and monsters
@@based4indian2commie0slut69 it really shows the kind of person you are if you don’t think people can change. Maybe it’s harder in this hellhole country but people can definitely change and rehabilitate into society.
My parents were drug addicts and I was on my own at 14 sleeping in abandoned houses in Baltimore. I had absolutely no one. I never hurt anyone and now I own a construction company and have a wife and children. So yeah life is hard but I learned so much from the hardship.
I always say when life gives you hard times you can use them to make you better or bitter. I’m glad you used that as motivation to build a beautiful life for yourself friend❤️
@@Ashley_Mo Thank you for your kind words, so sweet 😊
You are so strong. Proud of you.
@@crystalo9489 Thank you so much. I truly appreciate it. May your days be blessed.
people built different
i remember when my dad leave us all, my sister didn't have any tears on, she didn't even shaken when heard the news. she's the only kids that loving by my father because she's his only daughter and she's youngest of all. she standing in the front when my father lowered but she's hardly looked sad
different stories i know my neighbour and also my childhood friend, she had bad relationship with her parents, espicially her dad. his drunk behaviour often lead him to beat his only daughter, and she's grown into rebel behaviour. when her dad dead, she really flew 3 hour just to attend the funeral. she's crying so hard because he's already lowered and she didn't have proper goodbye. now she often stares blankly and often mumbling to herself
Childhood trauma is real. However it’s not an excuse to kill. Not apologizing speaks volumes.
I applaud his brother Joseph for sharing details of their lives as children that you really want to leave in the past. Joseph made no excuses for his brother's actions but knew it was important to share how his brother got in this predicament. I definitely have sympathy for the families of the victims but l have sympathy for Joseph and his siblings. They too are victims.
This is a very mature view to have on this
There's so many people here hiding behind justice and karma, when it just sounds like plain old vindictiveness
It's even crazier to see Christians applauding his death, considering that I'm sure that nobody conducting the execution is "free of sin" to be casting the stone. By killing the criminal, they damn themselves.
true but look at it this way. His brother looks to be having a good life and a stable mind, why didn't he help his brother? I don't think he probably cared at all and nor did his other siblings. Terrorists also have traumatic pasts but you can't justify their actions because of their past. The inmate took the wrong path and he paid for his sins. This happened in 2001 which means he would be around 25 years old when he killed the 2 women at the hotel. He at least went to high school and had a chance to change his life or get help to overcome his childhood trauma. So it's not like he has been trapped in a room all his life and was brainwashed. He chose his path and took two women's life who were probably no threat to him during his robbery. He deserved this!! Please don't try to justify his actions because he was beaten in his childhood and treated like no one loved him. There are billions of kids that have similar childhood or probably worse but have a brain of their own to decide what's right or wrong. I was watching Vice News videos on North Korea right before this and that's why your comment seems even more stupid to me. North Korean citizens are the most controlled humans on the planet and there are still people who understand what's right and what's not and escaped from that nightmare.
@@vp100 , you must learn to comprehend. My post was about the brother Joseph. I mentioned his name 3 times in my post. Somehow you missed that.
Everyone is a victim in some wayc
@@Stressed2Capacity yes, my first few sentences were about his brother. Learn to read
The two women he killed in cold blood didn't get their last words to say goodbye to their families.
we're not the same as him. he's a murderer , we're not
Who cares this is about him and his feeling not about them, go make a documentary about them if you care so much about it
@@kingnevermore25 he's in that position cuz he murdered them in the first place
My sister was raped and strangled when she was 21. My family did not want the death penalty. He’s still in prison. I’m also a court reporter and have reported 6 death cases. Although I do feel sorry for his family. At least they were able to say goodbye to him. When the inmate was saying he was afraid that they’d botch the killing of him, I have no sympathy for him. He certainly didn’t have any for this victims.
My cousin was strangled by her date when she was a teenager after she refused his sexual advances. Her killer got out after seven years due to a technicality. We all wanted him to get the chair (Kentucky), but he was released on a technicality after seven years. He soon killed himself during an autoerotic sex act. It was a fitting end for that pervert. Poetic even. The world's better off with him reduced to a husk. Sorry for your sister.
If it was up to you would you want the man who murdered your sister to die?
I’m sorry for your loss.
My heart is broken for your loss.
Peace, joy and blessings for the rest of your life.
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Childhood trauma does NOT justify taking innocent lives as an adult.
Absolutely 💯
No one said it did. Excuses and reasons are 2 different things.
@@brendanolt00 it's neither an excuse nor a reason. Definetly a factor, but there are many who go through such trauma and much worse without committing the heinous atrocities that Donald Grant did. Vice is overestimating the relevancy of the murderer's background here.
I'm not a fan of the death penalty, but there's little use in trying to understand why he did this through the "lense of trauma."
@@josephmcconnell7310 Tell me you haven't been severely traumatized as a kid without telling me.
@@brendanolt00it’s a pathetic excuse
I'm not religious, but seeing people pray outside for him is quite something. Respect.
I use to be religious, now I’m just spiritual. Life will change you that way, seeing and experiencing will show you there’s something else…religion is great for those who need the structure but it’s not everything, I use to think religion was important, but it’s not. Spirituality is the key. This guy went back home.
@@luxgreen1277 for me religion gives me purpose, anyways respect for those people praying outside, it could never be me, not for a killer at least.
@@luxgreen1277 I mean sure spirituality is important, but it is technically the same as religion when you start saying "he has gone home". Its an irrational belief with no evidence.
Pray for a murderer? Wtf?
Pray for his victims.
This was such a gripping piece, and I’m so grateful for his brothers visceral contribution. The perspective is something people rarely think about, but unimaginably painful, worth reflecting on
Even rarer to think about is the perspective of the victim's family, you know the truly innocent... i really wish we could've heard from them, i bet their side of it might not have sounded so sympathetic. Laws are what keeps the soft and easily led alive, and keeps the manipulators and murders at bay...
@@lmvirella1904 I see what you're saying, but most families who lose a loved one to a violent crime don't feel good when their murderer is put to death. It doesn't bring their loved ones back, and most of the time doesn't bring any form of closure to the whole situation. Life in prison is definitely terrible, but a lot of people feel like the death penalty is getting the easy way out of that punishment when their family member is the one killed. Nobody wins with the death penalty, and Donald's case was the best case scenario for the family of a victim because they knew for an absolute fact that Donald was the one who killed them, and why he did it. I really do think getting their perspective would've brought a lot more to the piece but at the same time I would totally understand if the families didn't want to be involved, because they get nothing but more pain out of it.
When someone chooses to commit a heinous crime, they so much pain to many more people than just their victims. Of course the most important people are the victims who've been directly hurt or killed & their family & friends but their pain & loss doesn't take away the validity of the pain of the perpetrators family & friends.
@@lmvirella1904 All loved ones of both the victims & perpetrator suffer greatly. The pain & suffering the perpetrators loved ones go through doesn't take away the pain & suffering from the victims or their loved ones & it doesn't minimise the awful crimes. When someone chooses to commit a heinous crime, they cause a lot of pain to many people, not just the victims & their family, although they are the most important people of the crime. We see a lot of the victims family & friends perspective in video programs & not near as often the perpetrators family & friends, this program highlighted their view this time. The perpetrators family & friends pain & loss is just as valid as the victims family. Their pain is different from different perspective, different experience etc but pain is pain & shouldn't be comparable or made invalid when they are also innocent of the crimes. Normally the perpetrators family & friends are forgotten about, loathed, bullied, harassed, judged etc for awful choices & actions they had nothing to do with, so not only do they deal with the pain of what their loved one did but also the loss of that loved one (varying degrees depending on the situation, country, laws) but also the opinions & actions of people hating them just because they are related or associated to the perpetrator. They also can't just turn off their love of someone they love dearly & their love doesn't minimise the crimes of the perpetrator, many people see loved ones love, pain & suffering as minimising what they did & that just isn't true. I have seen this as a community services worker & working with police. Please don't under estimate the pain & suffering of what the perpetrators family goes through because they are just as innocent as the victims loved ones. The pain & suffering of all the innocent people around the crime is valid.
Thanks, Max, for understanding.
This hit hard.
Donald's brother clearly loved his brother
& he articulated it without making excuses for him.
Even In the face of even the states mock sympathy
I saw his power; He handled Pain responsibly.
I'm humbled by his example.
He was so eloquent and composed during what was clearly torture for him. Glad he agreed to do this ....
WOW , you 2 people totally missed what Life is about ,
I wouldn't give a $H1T about any family member of mine that MURDERED two women ,
He shot the first one and then stabbed her with a box cutter knife ,
The second woman he shot 3 times in the Face ,
She had to have a CLOSED casket funeral because of all the damage to her Face ,
How do you think her family members were feeling that day ?
They couldn't even see their loved one being laid to rest because of this Violent piece of human Trash
But he did make an excuse for him. He said that he was “seeking his mother’s love” when he killed those women to get his girlfriend out of jail.
He made multiple excuses for his brothers actions
He committed a crime in which he showed no love, for love? I guess whatever man. You kill two innocent people you deserve it.
Rightly or wrongly, his brother has to know that no one is going to feel compassion for his executed sibling.
Having a bad parent is no excuse for taking a innocent life or lives. I had a horrible childhood and it made me want to do better. I knew i never wanted to make anyone feel how i was made to feel. Sad that it causes some to go the other path.
@@davidelbourne7491 don't get it confused. I'm not sad for him, I'm sad for the ones he hurt.
You shouldn’t need any excuse not to be killed yourself. Sure he’s a monster and would probably hurt more people if he was out, but that doesn’t mean he can’t sleep and eat and get some exercise and read a book and play ping pong. He’s out of society, so the problem is already solved.
@@paulaccuardi9071 So we should pay for a monster to have a quality life? I wonder how you would feel if that was your parent, sibling, or child who was killed, would you still feel that way towards the murderer?
@@UNDERCOVER_E I think I would. I’ve been made to consider that kind of scenario before. Though I guess that kind of thing would put your mind in a totally different place if it were to happen to you, so maybe I wouldn’t. If it never happens, I would always tell you I would, and I’d genuinely think so.
Everyone reacts differently to trauma. Nobody who has grown up well, unless they have antisocial disorder, chooses to act violently or murder others. We as humans can pity this man while pitying his victims more.
My childhood was racked with my father's physical and emotional abuse. I too, was homeless and eating out of dumpsters for too many years. What I learned from that is that neither is sane nor dignified and most certainly, it's not love and that's what I came into being human to know and share. From experience I know that it's not what we're subjected to that makes us who we are, it's how we use it. Say NO to EVIL.
That’s awesome man! You can be proud of yourself for having learned that about being human. And for your capacity for forgiveness. It’s the only real way to be happy.
So sorry to had to go through this. Sending love and healing your way from all that troubles you
@@glacialblueberry Some things are never meant for forgiveness.
@@kmarieking12 I don't need nor do I want any sympathy. My testimony is about the responsibility of the choices we make, in regards to it making us who we are. Remember the voice you heard and the commitment you made at the instant before you became zygote. I do remember and live it.
I was beaten up for unimportant reasons as a child, father was not emotionally there, always serious faced. Mother treats father like he is the Lord of the house. So the ground below your feet was non-existent when you needed it. I grew up salty and jealous of kids with good parents. But no, I am NEVER letting the effects of abuse come out to see the light of the world. They will stay in me and will go to hell with me. Say no to evil.
As someone that works in social work/mental health, it always breaks my heart to see this stuff. Literally no one “wins.” The profound impact parents have on destroying any type of development kids have early-on just enrages me. When you’re constantly put through trauma as a child, it’s extremely hard to recover from that, even with how resilient kids are. Our brains are great at “surviving,” but not coping. Behavior can almost come off as “animal like” when people are surviving for so long. It leads them to do heinous things. It’s heartbreaking all the way around. Honestly, there’s things I know working in this field that gives me a perspective I wish I didn’t have. When you’re working with the people in society that society condemns and refuses to even try to understand, it’s a constant uphill battle. You’d be surprised to hear something called “intergenerational trauma” exists within genetics. All types of high risk behaviors can be tied back to trauma experienced throughout our lives, our grandparents lives, and our parents lives.
Edit: yikes, I suppose I should’ve expected such a debate in the comments. This comment wasn’t to make “excuses” for anyone or anything-rather, simply a perspective based on knowledge, experiences, and years of education. What conclusions you choose to jump to is your prerogative. Things are much more complicated than many would like to acknowledge. I get it, we want closure by telling ourselves the situation was black-and-white, good vs. bad, and sometimes people really are just shitty humans, but when we ignore root causes of such behavior, we miss out on bettering our society by doing our due diligence in even working toward preventing things like this through understanding and breaking intergenerational and systemic issues. We’ve become so reactive in America and not proactive…
However he took two lives which denied their families of the right to be with their loves one's for the rest of their lives. I agree his Mom had much to so with his outcome, but in the end he made choices that got him on death row and executed. His family suffers as well and the victim's families. There is never an excuse to kill someone and I do think this guy would change it if he could, I feel justice was done overall for the victims themselves.
more excuses
Yes yes yes no one wins.
@@jaylockwood5030 if we don't get to root of issues. It will never go away.
@@GM8101PHX of course he deserved to be punished for taking away 2 innocent lives. That's no something anybody is debating. It's the root of the cause. Just cause someone's a criminal it doesn't mean u can't talk about his back story as well. Discussions are important inorder to lower crime.
“I know my next life will be a better life.”
I hope to God the same for those two poor hotel employees who spent their final moments in terror at the hands of a deranged addict.
Yes this is sad and difficult but he never expressed much remorse for his victims , whatever his background was, his victims and their families did not deserve to suffer for it.
Dude was scared lol
I might be wrong but uh, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of days not included in this clip where it's quite possible he felt regret for his actions. That said I wasn't there and wouldn't know.
So make his family and him suffer more is the answer?
this wasnt about his crime. this was about donald and following him to his death
That's unfortunately something common with people who were never shown love. Everyone was a victim in some form.
As a sympathetic person while I do feel sympathy for him, it's truly about the victims and the families involved. He murdered those women viciously and for no reason. That could've been anyone of our family members and I always remind myself of this when I feel sympathy for people like this. I won't get on here and talk bad though, I hope all families involved are at peace now.
A couple women off this earth means a couple men have been saved. Am I right Sis?!
@@evilyxofWhat? Oh never mind..screen name checks out..evil
Not to mention, they were two female hotel workers. They would’ve given him the $$ without a fight. Instead, he decided to brutally murder them. Unforgivable and who knows what other lives ended at the hands of this animal.
Maybe also remind yourself that it could be one of your family members that made a mistake.
This isn't bringing back anyone from life, this is just creating more wounds, and celebrating blood lust, the kind that can actually lead to crimes.
Glad I'm living in Europe, that parted ways with barbarism like that.
@@evilyxof Get some help.
The last few moments of the death row person seem so much calmer and more humane than the painful, traumatic and frightening pure horrific last moments of their victim… ie being stabbed in the neck with a knife whilst at work or being robbed before being shot in the face three times… imagine leaving this earth in that way 😢
Tout fait d accord ,🌷 il devrait subir pareil, cette mort pour lui est trop douce.😡
Yea, was that theatre too? You nailed it.
There are never any winners. Death penalty brings no one back
i think it's horrific in a different way, knowing far ahead of time exactly when you'll die can't be easy psychologically. let alone their close family having to deal with that as well
Retribution in the form of the death penalty, due to the delays and complexity of the process, does not appear to be a deterrent that prevents extreme violence. The offender has hurt not only the victim, but the victims family as well as their own. Selfish acts of extreme violence harm so many including society in general having to house individuals that are unable to be productive members of society. Poor parenting and lack of proper education has amplified the problem in our society.
My heart breaks for this brother - Imagine your sibling committing double murder and then having to live as the sibling of a murderer….
My heart breaks for the 2 innocent women he haphazardly killed
@ me too
its really hard to sympathize. I feel for him bcs he's the brother and i have a brother and i cant imagine that happening to my brother but then again the brother took away two lives for the most pettiest thing. i can only imagine how those families feel to have lost their loved ones.
Well he died, eye for an eye. People can grieve others even if they were a terrible person. We’re human. I send my condolences to both families
It seemed like he had shown remorse and understood where did wrong as well though. Seeing as they didn't have bail, it's every bit as likely that his partner that he was trying to get bail for would also fall to a similar fate in the system too. It was obviously deep desperation and his two victims in now way deserved what he did to them.
@@youngtrapnyssa2964 the death penalty is wack
@@cormacfingeret3551 I don’t agree with it, i was just being “matter-of-fact” to get my pout across.
@@cormacfingeret3551 Murderers need to get whacked.
not only did he do what he did to his victim but he made his bro who is clearly a lovely guy go through that
Yea that’s true I chose not to do some of the things I am capable of because I have a little sister
wtf comment.
@lifeson90 it's really hard to not care about your siblings or parents even when they have done truly bad things
@@paddymcdoogle4025 what's wtf about it?
@@sonicdiablo8968 lol
Stories like these are tragic. What he did was awful, but just shows how drugs can destroy lives, even down the line.
My parents separated when I was one and I was eventually placed into foster care at 11 due to my mom's meth addiction.
I remember crying, but later feeling relieved I wouldn't have to live the way I did anymore.
I'm 30 now with kids of my own and though life hasn't been easy, I sometimes wonder how bad my life would've been if I stayed with my mom.
Unfortunately, my ex wife also had a drug problem, but I was able to get full custody so they wouldn't have to live through what I did.
I knew a few people from foster care that are now either dead or in prison and I think to myself that could've easily been me.
I'm so happy you are safe now, stay strong for your family
so since you went though that you offed 2 people after you were already done robbing them? I'm sure you didn't because humans can easily have even worse trauma and never execute anyone let alone 2. He actively made the choice to kill them after the purpose of the crime ie robbing them. Because of that he deserved to die. deserved and will are different things and he got the will. I think the victims family should have sway over being able to reduce their sentence and i guess forgive them if that's what they need. and in todays courts they do mostly. But at the same time families that need that eye for a eye type deal shouldn't be made to feel like they caused the murderers death. Vice fucked up making this and basically gave a middle finger to the surviving family.
Good on you Andre .. you got out, you survived and you're doing good .. Best a luck to you 👍
Thanks for understanding.
What's really sad is you sit here and defend and make excuses for criminals . . . Lots of people have hard lives and never resort to murder and crime . . . Been a murderer and a criminal is a choice that you make . . . In criminals don't get punished the way they should for their crimes . . . Because people like you just want to defend and justify their criminal behavior . . . Maybe you should go to the state prison and even go to death row and get these criminals to come to your house and babysit for you sometime or maybe get them a job at the school where your kids go . . . Since you seem to think these criminals are just poor little victims and just deserve a chance at a regular life . . . If you don't believe in punishment then don't cry about the crime .. . And that goes for crimes they might commit against you or your family . . . Instead of seeing these people for the criminals they are . . You just want to see them as poor little victims . . . And then wonder why crime is getting so bad and much worser nowadays .
His victims never had the chance. The poor suspects family and victims family. Just terrible.
Joseph seems like a really caring person. I hope he lives the best life he can
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@@staytight6340 😐
@@staytight6340here two years later to call you cringe
My heart goes out to the families of those poor hotel workers murdered by this man, that poor woman shot in the face 3 times, the unimaginable pain they've experienced
Yeah Ikr, dude had a tough life but what he did to those people was totally unnecessary and cruel
Whilst the process of execution is morbid and the prisoner’s life circumstances are harsh. Many have been in his situation and not done what he did. Execution is correct in this situation.
@@BurgundySorcerer I completely agree. Even if you're not a proponent of the death penalty, in certain situations such as these it is the correct punishment.
Yeah. Vice telling such a one sided story. Tell the story of how that women begged for their lives. Tell thr story of how they where absolutely depraved of their innocence. F this man. Sorry
Hard disagree.
I can't think of a worse punishment than "you are locked up forever and will never be released."
It costs more money to execute someone than to lock them up for life.
If someone did that to my loved ones I would want them to die. But hopefully in a modern society we can reach a point where no human does by the state, which is actually on all of our hands.
You cannot begin to imagine all the death row inmates exonerated by DNA evidence. How many did we put to death unjustly?
I am not religious, but _Thou shall NOT kill_ is a commandment. There is no asterisk next to that line.
But hey, it's not like the commandments were written on stone or anything.
I just met a young woman that I knew when she was a waitress at another restaurant two years ago. At that time, she just found out she had breast cancer, she was a single mom with four children. She worked up until she started chemotherapy and radiation. I lost tract of her until a couple days ago. She told me she was cancer free and was in remission. She shared with me that her mother as a crack addict and was suffering from stage 4 cancer when I knew her at the other restaurant. Her mother died the day she started chemotherapy. She is a hard worker and has a very positive attitude on her life. You are given one life. It's up to YOU if you want to become a contributing positive individual or go through life playing the blame game.
You didn’t just meet the woman, you “reconnected” with her. You didn’t lose “tract” that’s not a word. You lost track. I loved the story/perspective and advice. Just hits less when it’s not grammatically correct.
You must be fun at parties @@Alexya-td4je
@@Alexya-td4jeHow impressive you are to search through comments and find grammatical errors in someone's comment and totally overlook the heart in their comment. How many times have you broken your arm patting yourself on the back is what I'd like to know?
@@Alexya-td4jeyou really are a bore 😴
@@Alexya-td4je🤡
"If I could go back and change it I would. But I can't."
I absolutely hate when people say that. It's such an empty, fake, meaningless statement. You aren't showing empathy.
Is sad to see how parents in the childhood of their children influence in a negative way and later in life that clearly affects their children and leads them to do these things.
@@ezze7540 because every single human reacts to trauma and abuse in the exact same way.
Not saying that he doesn't deserve to be punished, but "there are thousands of children raised in worse situations and none of them became killers" is ignorant. There's thousands of people raised in BETTER conditions who also became killers, mass murderers, dictators.
@@ezze7540 we cannot compare such a thing. Everyone has a different perspective, different ways of receiving things and this has it's affects on different levels. Clearly his growing up had impacted his adulthood and we don't even know anything else that occurred in his life too.
@@ezze7540 There's a big undiscovered realm of suffering underneath the horrors of child abuse. We only see the tip of the iceberg of consequences. No more than the tip of the iceberg. You can't even imagine how bad it really is.
The "parent" should have had an abortion and save society and the unwanted person grief and trouble.
@@ezze7540 maybe go raise those children then? People need to stop comparing their own to others. That’s what’s fucking everyone and everything.
My thoughts are for the victims and their families.
All the families are victims here,...Everyone,...all around.
@@Valleygirl66 the guy that got executed was not a victim
@@chrislotts4551 He was a victim of his mother. Don't be so closed minded
@@PukkaKeef only a small percentage of abuse victims go on to be evil people... You don't get a hard life as an excuse.
@@PukkaKeef Ok, and? Just because he had a hard life doesn't mean he can do what he did. I know so many people who've had horribly hard lives and they never even thought about killing somebody. When you do something like that you're not a victim anymore, you're a monster
Sad, for all involved. I can't speak for the mother who did not love her son. I am sorry for the boy who wanted and deserved his momma's love. I'm also sorry for the surviving family, the victims of the crimes and their families.
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
I agree with you.
@@artchem1 Thanks for your thoughtful response.
This is where restorative justice *should* come in.
Only God has the right to Judge.
He killed 2 women. He deserves no mercy. The victims and their families did not deserve it and they had no warning.
You are not the judge of that. No American is.
@@HereticsPreferTheTurban would
you have the same opinion if that was your family murdered?
@@jakegeng22it's all about human rights until it happens to them
Although it is painful to see he was executed . But on the other hand . He shot two women . He stabbed a woman’s neck multiple times and shot the other woman in the face multiple times . Imagine how painful it is for the women ? He needed the money but not only he choose murder to get it but also he choose murder in the most brutal way
Literally. Very brutal, got the money and still shot the girl 3 times in the face?? like he deserves to be put down.
@@Zombiesteve03 deserved the botched table tbh
@@johnbarry8283 even if he chooses murder is it even necessary to stab someone’s throat multiple times or shoot someone’s face multiple times ? The women experienced very very painful death . And I understand he needs the money , he couldnt get it but in this case he can rob them . Put them to sleep yet he chooses to kill them
well.. yeah.
but in the end we have to agree that the US judical system and pro-profit prisons are messed up af.
most interned people per capita... and over a third of the people leaving prison return to it in less than 5 years...
for such a country to also have the death penalty is just... scary.
i know death seems fair but giving the state the right to kill is.... wwelll... ,ets just say there are good reasons why so many nations stopped it..
@@johnbarry8283 I am only against death penalty because sometimes wrongful conviction happens . Innocent people or people who are mentally ill and commited minor crimes gets executed because justice system got the wrong person . But not his case , he actually did it
Murdering two people the way he did is pure evil. And to do it in a state where you know they have the death penalty is the highest level of dumb.
Not so much dumb as desperate, I'm thinking.
I know why do such a thing
Goes to show the death penalty doesn't work. Its not a deterrent.. We shouldn't repay evil with evil.
Yes the laws that the white man made ? Yeah we know ma’am
Some people can’t help it. Have you seen the brain dead sheep out there? Murderers are doing us all a favor and thinning the herd
Sympathies go out to the victims and their families of this mans heinous crime
Oz. Yes sympathies to the victims and their families of this heinous crime I am a born again Christian but I am not against the death penalty because I am a scripture driven Bible believing woman since I was 16 years old and when the Bible says an eye for an eye that's exactly what it means and that's why we need to follow the scripture! That's the way I believe I know other people don't feel that way but I am sorry for this convicts family I don't care for his I don't want to eat your cookies I and drink your water! The victims in this crime will never eat cookies or ever drink water again and you are I'm sorry smug enough to make this about yourself God help you
You really could have kept that to yourself. This video is clearly about the inmate and his brother's feelings throughout the process. His brother didn't commit a crime. My sympathy goes out to Donald and his family being victims themselves.
Agree totally…it’s amazing that criminals are so worried about the possibility of ‘pain and suffering’ during their own deaths but are unable to equate any of it to what they did to their victims. Sympathy to the victims of the crime and sympathy to the murderer’s family, who were also victims of his heinous crimes too.
@@mandyellis876 What they did to someone else has nothing to do with them. They don't want to feel pain and that's understandable.
@@Nah.ImCool the fact that you think he is a victim is despicable and you are the reason crime is tolerated and real victimhood will increase
At least he was able to say his goodbyes to his family and prepare for many years. His victims did not get that, nor a peaceful death.
My sympathies go out to the families of the victims of this crime
Amen.
Totally
Same here.
Yep
That.
As someone who has been incarcerated I can tell you those last 35 days must’ve felt like 10 years. You get into a routine years go bye kind of at a quick pace but when you break that routine time just drags. So they take that man’s TV with 35 days left and essentially put them in the hole (the box, segregation whatever you know it as) those last 35 days were the longest he’s faced. I can’t imagine sitting in my cell alone with nothing to pass the time but to add the fact that you know you’re going to die must have been a tough 35 days. Makes me feel bad and don’t get me wrong I’m not saying what he did was right nor am I ignoring the pain of the victims and their families it just makes me feel bad or sad I guess. The whole thing was kind of surreal for me. They serve food like it was a show. Idk I’m not against the death penalty for some cases I believe that some cases is a just cause for it but to see it in this light makes me think and that’s why I’m a BIG fan of Vice news. I think they hit it out of the park more often then most news agencies
The cruelty is completely unnecessary
I can't even imagine how long it would feel as those days dragged by. It's almost like they take the things away to force them to dwell on what it going to happen and replay what got them there 1000 times over and over in their head...damn, it's a sad situation all the way around.
@@ka3097 I agree with you I think you’re right I think the food is probably towards the family of the victims makes sense but you’re right where do you draw the line. I don’t know if it’s something to try to make people comfortable but you shouldn’t feel comfortable you’re watching somebody’s life be taken away even if proven guilty.
*than, not then
@@ka3097 You'd probably feel differently if it was your mom he shot in the face 3 times or shot then stabbed in the neck like he did to his 2 victims.
Tragic end to a man's life but Vice really needed to interview the victims families to get both sides of this story.
Those are numbers to Vice, Vice's goal is to support anarchy.
What both sides? This is in its most basic purpose is just to document what an execution is like, and what the family of a convicted would feel and experience. Though out the video all the gruesome crime committed by grant was mentioned so there's no need for sympathy manipulating.
@@juch3 I suppose you're right. The victims & their families don't deserve any sympathy. Their lives don't really matter nor the horrible way in which they were murdered. The cold blooded murderer deserves compassion & the victims, hey, who cares, right? They didn't deserve to live a full life (like you or I) did they?
@@jaydibernardo4320 who are you replying to exactly? Because I never wrote whatever that is in your reply, I'm saying this is a documentary about the process of capital punishment in the US, not a documentary about Donald grant and his criminal activities and how it affected his victims.
@@juch3 I replied to your post & in particular when you wrote there was no need for sympathy manipulation (for the victims) since this video is about capital punishment in the US. To me that came across as rather cold blooded with little regard for the victims & familes & I would argue that this video was, in its own way a form of manipulation.
I get how “unjust” this penalty should be, but people don’t get executed for peanuts. He very likely could not have had to execute those two employees and did it anyway and the courts did not see remorse in his demeanor. He brutally murdered two people, don’t forget how those families are affected.
I completely see your point. But I don't believe that a state/nation should kill people as a penalty, it solves nothing. Bringing people back into life, or treating them in order to solve some of their issues, would do much more justife to the preciousness of human life
@@miless.9512 Once they commit those horrors (murders and rapes), they're no longer human. No need to waste taxpayers money on those degenerate scums
it does solve things, if you take someone else’s life without any justification like self defense, you have to pay with your own life
The death penalty is mostly useless, not because its cruel, but because its too easy on them. Life in prison would make them suffer like they made the victims and the victims' families did
@@miless.9512 Yeah...sure. Maybe we should have let him out in 15 years like they do in Canada.
No matter how much worst life he might have gone through, it doesn't give him a right to take innocent lives.
Yea but there is such thing as reasonability: when very bad things happen to you it may lead to you doing very bad things. This will not act as an excuse but as a kind of explanation which should lessen the consequences.
In other words: if someone harasses you, insults you and provoques you for halt an hour, and after many attempts to stop him peaceauffly, you decide to slap him, it should be taken into consideration what happend to you before that action.
It obviously is quite a different example but still similar in the term of reasoning.
You think you wouldve lived a normal "peaceful" life if you were him?
And if yes? Do you think all the other 17 people liking this comment would have?
I doubt it...
@@vincentquehenberger6556 I believe you simply didn't understand my comment. Those innocent souls had nothing to do with his crazy upbringing. His parents should be held accountable. Would you react same way if any of these victims were someone close to you?
@@vinayrajkhunti5988 if you say his parents should be held accountable, i agree
But in your first comment you clearly implied that he should also be held accountable with which i also agree but only to a far less far point, because of said upbringing.
@@vinayrajkhunti5988 i would obviously not react that way, but i think you agree that one emotionally attached person might be the worst one to judge.
So very true!
It's hard to sympathize when you realize the reason he's there in the first place. I just feel bad for the victim's family & his siblings.
I agree, this video shows his remorse and the aftermath but that doesn't erase the fact he took away 2 lives. his brother turned out fine so why didn't he? I worded it wrong but truthfully there had to be other options. oh well, to each their own. I'm sending my condolences to all 3 families
@@3reaper and you know that how? this video is about his brother's execution so obviously they wont talk about the eldest brother's past. even if he wasn't beaten, watching your mom beat your brother and not being able to do anything is just as traumatic
When people have trauma or accidents, injuries, bad relationships.. not everyone can come out of those things ok, it impacts people differently.. for e.g some people look for revenge and others move on with life.. there are a lot worse people in power that commit a lot worse crime
I agree. Trauma causes a lot of things, but slicing somebody's neck from ear to ear and shooting somebody else 3 times in the face is not a natural progression. That's entirely something else.
there are no winners here..... he killed two people, now he is dead. Thank goodness God is the true judge and jury and is full of love.
Its very eerie how this video almost presents the inmate as a victim "of the state", especially with his brother nitpicking the whole thing. He killed people and not once did he apologize
I think it's a foreign based film hell bent on bashing the US death penalty
Your brother chose his path and thereby the consequences of his actions. He could have just robbed the place and left, but he made the decision to kill two innocent people instead by shooting them in the face and head to ensure they died. I grew up with no father. He did not want me or anything to do with me.
Every human being alive have faced difficult times and experiences in their lives, but that is no excuse to harm others.
I don't think anyone said it was an excuse.
I completetly agree with you.
The 2 people he killed in cold blood never got a chance to say good bye. They suffered and were frightened. They were helpless. I feel that this man's upbringing was a cop out. You can better yourself. You can make better choices. I had a shocking childhood too. Horrible way to grow up. But you seek to do better and show the love and kindness you never got.
A part of me feels bad for someone being put to death, but the other part of me understands that that person put themselves in that place. I've only been on this earth for 30 years, but so far I've found it incredibly easy not to take an innocent person's life, let alone two.
He didn’t just shoot and run he pulled the trigger multiple times and stabbed and women no less they were no physical threat to him
But if you remember he did have a very rough upbringing he probably wasn’t mentally stable because of his mom so in part I feel as if his mom had an impact on his life decisions… Therefore people who have never been in that kind of situation would never know how it felt. I think he really just wanted someone to love him the way a mother should have loved her kid and he went too far due to past trauma trying to chase that love he never received. Truly just a sad world we live in😞
I feel like no human should have the power to take another humans life . Period .
@@luhmary5636 but we do and when two muslims behead A guy on the streets of london in front of multiple witnesses and cameras should they just get life in prison it cost £80,000 to keep a prisoner for a year still talking millions of pounds to keep them locked up shouldn’t they just be executed the next day and that money to go towards so many programs to help people
@@luhmary5636 I agree, so we should remove people from society who think they have the right to take a person's life.
And yet, he got to peacefully go to death, as opposed to 3 gunshots to the face.
I felt bad until they mentioned the double homicide on innocent hotel clerk. He got the money why’d he kill them too? Your childhood trauma is not an excuse and the responsibility of an innocent life to pay for. Where was the all live matters protesting when he shot and stabbed the two? Just to get bail on his probably cracked up how as gf
Everyone makes mistakes but an armed robbery and double homicide isn’t “a mistake”. He got a much more humane death than his victims.
Because for many people who grew up like this, they never had a chance to be "built" right.
Heat of the moment adrenaline
@@Coz131 u can't say they never had chance.. I grew up from a very harsh environment... I never saw my dad's face.. N here i am now serving my country. Think about the victims n how that dude killed them
Yeah, I bet his brother wouldn't have liked seeing his brother get shot three times in the face as his execution, would he? Boo effing hoo.
@@Coz131 they weren't "built" right is no excuse. Everyone goes through struggles. Even those he killed, all had struggles. But he had a choice. He chose to kill.
Now, good riddance!
This is just a matter of justice. He not only killed two people but killed them in a very cruel way. He died a much easier death than what he inflicted on those two women. He did not have to kill them, could have tied them up and just taken the money and left.
I understand he had a tough childhood but look at his brother, his brother turned out to be a fine member of society, a good person. So the tough childhood is no excuse. God bless him and the two women that he murdered so needlessly......prayers to all involved.
Exactly!
I just watched this and walked over to my 10 month old son and just thought how much i need to love and protect this sweet smiling little boy. How i hope he is not exposed to the kind of trauma that will put him down a destructive path. Love is not a weakness. It is the biggest strength one can have. To show love to this world, to show love to each other. This is the bonafide solution to our self created destruction.
you're gonna be an amazing parent, don't worry❤️❤️❤️
Hope he's gonna be a good human being
WHERE WAS YOUR FATHER
This world shows no love, everyone will backstab each other. Love can be a weakness, it turns into others manipulating.
@@spawntaneous1903--There is nothing that "everybody does."
Those poor ladies at the hotel. Their families will never be the same. I wonder how they’re doing. Not this evil man’s brother
This man put a nife through someone's neck , and shot the other directly in the face . And vice tryin make us sympathize for him 😐 .
My mom and father were both in jail when I was six . I seen my brother and sister be rapped. I was homeless 5 different times as a minor. Including once in mexico 🇲🇽 . I never robbed or killed. I grew up and worked for a. Living.
Yea VICE always tries to make criminal scumbags the victim of racism!
You clearly miss the point but that's okay you can try again later
Humans aren’t all the same, everyone takes situations in different ways and traumatic events can mess people up mentally which can lead to people committing crimes like that
@@supersinger234 watch the video again. Pay attention to the narrative, sad . Sad music 🎶 sad story. Its all in a effort to trigger your feelings . Its called " emotional appeal " . No sad song with a sad back drop or sad past will excuse a human who took the lives of 2 innocent people who are the real victims. Imagine getting a call at 2 a.m saying your loved was gunned down in cold blood. Or that your mother was stabbed through the neck. Use your common sense and block out the narrative , thats the only was way you can see clearly brother. The sad music and sad backdrop pushed the narrative of emotional appeal. I learned that in 6th grade reading class
@@supersinger234 Right! Like this poor man was obviously a victim of white priveledge! Free him! LMAO feeling sorry for this pos. Hope he did get "botched"
😪 The whole story : his mother using drugs, the physical and emotional abuse from his mother, the living on the streets, trying to get money to bail out his girlfriend, the horrific murder, and ultimately his execution - is so horrible. It seems like there were so many places where there could have and should have been some intervention. This did not need to happen. 😪
This
Why did he murder someone? WTF
Dont get fooled by this. Listen to him, what he tells us. How hard his life was. What struggles he went through, what motivated him to do the robbery. That he is afraid of execution. That he knows pain and how hard life is. He says he would change his actions if he could. Think about: Why? He didnt talk a second about his victims. Not even in the last minute. Only about himself. He would only change his actions because they have hurt himself, not because of his victims. This is an evil man who does not truly regret what he did.
@@sonyxperiasmk I agree that nothing excuses murder. I don't agree that we can know if he is truly sorry. Sadly there is just no way to know for sure. Also, there is no way to know if his life led him to be able to commit murder or if that is just the way he was born. Still, I don't think that I could ever recommend the death penalty. Killing is killing, no matter what.
@@sonyxperiasmk Life CAN be hard but you dont fucking shoot someone in the face because of it
I can’t imagine the mixed feelings Donald’s brother had during this whole thing. This is just, upsetting. Really upsetting.
Criminals should be gotten rid of
@@AmericanPatriot5 you sound like a child, grow up!
@@opiesmith9270 If you're brother or sister were murdered you wouldn't care about how their siblings felt I promise you that.
@@halamadrid71814 good thing its not the governments job to care about how we feel and do whats right
@@AmericanPatriot5 Wait until it's your family member. Prison has its place, but it's attitudes like yours sucks down an immense amount of my tax dollars.
No sympathy here. This dude killed 2 innocent women in cold blood. My only issue is how long it takes to carry the sentence out.
Years of living a dangerous life has taught me that a tough man knows when and how to get out of a situation, but a smart man never gets himself into one.
Thanks mario
Danger mayito
Tough as in your parents basement guy
Wow so deep
@@renge3084 ong mario always helps
As soon as the crime was described, and the victims were described, I stopped feeling empathy towards this inmate.
That's how it's supposed to be. The less you know, the more you will trust your senses.
Before I learned his crimes I felt empathetic towards him due to his childhood. But when I heard of his crimes and description, I was disgusted. Those crimes are heinous and despicable. Who could kill another person. I don't know if he felt remorse or not but I will assume not as he was given the death penalty. But regardless of remorse or not. That does not change he ended the life of 2 individuals. I do however feel empathetic toward the inmates brother, he watched his brother die and slowly die. That must have been hard to watch.
It is really saddening to see people actually do this. People actually murder others for money, rather then doing the work. If you do the work it is always rewarding in the end.
I wish you all a good day and the best.
@@jareshchan5987 He didn't suffer like his victims did.l can't even imagine how scared they were
@@vernamorales2064 you are right. I have a hard time understanding why he did not hat he did. But justice must be served
@thePiercingTruth same
Of all the words he said in his final two minutes, I noticed he never said, "I'm sorry."
He’s a cold blooded murderer
He had no remorse, and no honour. If he had honour, he wouldn't allow the state to execute him, but would have taken the initiative to do it himself, and not cost the innocent taxpayers of Oklahoma 60k USD a year to incarcerate him.
@@SunRabbitDauym. You're a real one
Dude, there's going to be a lot going through your head it's going to be shocking to see your family there. The first faces you'll notice.. cmon man..
He’s dead does it matter?
So for his last words he didn’t even say sorry… that says what I need to know about this man.
NOT ONCE did he say how sorry he was just what a victim he is. SO pathetic
He spent his entire life In jail for what he did... Why spend your last day saying how sorry you are for it, when you're about to die for it! GET OVER IT KAREN.. If you're so concerned, say sorry for him.
@@tavionakeys2934 Why should anyone say sorry for YOUR fucked up society
@@tavionakeys2934 Because he had a chance to make an impact with those words, show some remorse remembered by the whole world forever, some redemption at any rate. Speaking to a reporter wouldve been a godsend to any truly remorseful person. Occam and his razor would probably agree that he didnt say how sorry he was because he wasnt; babbling on about his afterlife, coming from the Milky way, hoping his next life will be better. One chance to not kill people in this life, and then a chance to show the world he is sorry and remorseful. Squandered everything for XYZ reasons.
@@tavionakeys2934 staps and shoots 2 people "GET OVER IT KAREN"
@@tavionakeys2934 you calling dude a Karen over the deaths of two people and causing pain over his own family imagine
Hard to feel empathy after hearing about the heinous crime he committed. His brother really loves him...
its not you have just got to change your mindset
He deserved it... idc what the brother says to vouch for him
@@opticalman6417yea the way I see it everything is the mothers fault. If she didn't beat him and make him crazy at a young age he wouldnt have been a criminal. The brother seems very level headed
@@warriorspanthersblackhawks4651He choose to kill those people, there are plenty of other people who have been through worse and didn’t kill people. Mother was apart of it but it’s his fault.
@@JusttSarinaaexactly ! Things happen that make us do things but once you’re an adult and not living at home you are the one who decides what you’re doing !
There are hundreds of thousands of us out there who went through abuse and we didn’t go on to murder and inflict pain and horror on others
My cousin was brutally murdered and I wanted his killers to get the death penalty and they didn’t and that hurts
I'm so sorry for what you went through. The pain of losing someone to the hands of another is unbearable
I’ll never understand these comments. Ofc people react to trauma differently….we’re not robots. A lot of different factors come into play, including genetics & brain chemistry. Some people can overcome it, some become self destructive & take it out on themselves, while others take it out on the world. There’s no “one size fits all” for people, especially children who’ve gone through horrific abuse. That’s not an excuse, they still need to be held accountable, but just because you react to something one way, doesn’t mean every other human who’s been through something similar can follow suit. Bad things are always going to happen because humans are extremely flawed beings .
@@isitoveryet9525 That's called being evil and true scum of the earth if they go hurting, harming or killing people no matter WHAT happens or has happened to them in their live, it's excuses so 🛑 making excuses for the true EVILNESS!!
@@isitoveryet9525and some people are just evil
@@isitoveryet9525I completely agree with this. Everyone reacts differently to situations because every human being is different. How one person would react to a situation could be the complete opposite to another.
Why is this so favorable to a murderer?
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I just can’t feel sorry for someone who viscously, and senselessly killed 2 young girls for no reason… he was worrying about suffering, but stabbed his victim in the neck, and shot them 3 times in the face.. and left them for dead… though I don’t think it should be anyones choice who dies, and when.. but what do you do in a situation like this.. HE MADE HIS DECISION. Godspeed man💙
Unfortunately, as humans we haven’t figured out that we need to greet this kind of viciousness with the same. It’s unfortunate as a civilization we don’t punish these people the same way they’re victims get punished doesn’t make any sense to me
@@thanosbustedinyourmum we are not God. Your a murderer for killing him
@@arielthepom who cares get over it.
@ArielthePom: Your statement is ignorant. Unless you know Thanos personally and witnessed Thanos committing murder, or heard a confession, your statement is ignorant. (In addition to being grammatically incorrect)
@@privatename2648 I don’t owe you anything this isn’t a interview. So therefore I don’t care. And my opinion still stands. 2 wrongs do not make a right. And it’s not up to us to judge anyone, that’s up to God.
I hope the people he killed are resting in peace. I hope the family of the people he killed are at peace.
Yeah, nothing that shows in these video interests me... it didnt show the victims and their families, which is the only thing that matters in this whole case...
@Jaomir Courtar now you said it all.... 😎
Agreed
@Jaomir Courtar There's only one side that matters, the right one.
And I hope we as a society quit murdering people for murdering, if murdering is wrong
I feel sorry for his family but he showed no compassion when he murder those 2x hotel employees. They also complied with his demands and he still brutally stabbed one in the neck repeatedly. And shot the other one in the head. Sorry Vice you will not get sympathy from me. You showed no compassion you will get no compassion
« An eye for an eye »
@@Socialling ...makes the whole world go blind.
@@Ultamami No, only the deserving criminals blind.
@@joeiborowski9763 and his family. You should let him be in prison. Why should his family suffer like that just for revenge?
I agree, but putting someone to death on purpose is still and always will be murder, they have a million correctional facilities, why not build one more to house individuals that won't ever walk free on earth as long as they live
I remember my mother saying, “Kids, whoever invented them.” I’m 77 years old now, and that hurts even now.
People don’t know what I’m talking about when I say that if it wasn’t for my grandparents I would’ve grown up to be a serial killer. The abuse I suffered growing up this sexual abuse the trauma affected me so much as a young man it still affects me to this day. When I was growing up I did not know there was any kindness in the world and I think God I found some before I truly made a mistake I wouldn’t be able to fix. It breaks my heart that so many of these men who Are incarcerated went through so many similar things they never had a chance. I’m very torn because I also understand how precious and beautiful life is and to snuff that out and take that from another human being and their family it’s just it can’t be without punishment I’m not sure anyone’s life is ever justified to be taken though
Edit: we all have darkness in us. We all are capable of horrible things. Some of you shouldn’t judge so easily.
The answer is yes. Certain acts only deserve death.
@@fedbia2003 OK Punisher. You’re cool, we get it. Now go shower, please.
Calm down. It’s only you tube
@@ALotOfCancer you can dismiss Rico’s words as much as you’d like. The fact is you haven’t experienced the level of hurt that people like Grant has inflicted on families. Death is the only answer for evil. You are just talking out of a place of ignorance
You think you’re a dormant serial killer is what you’re saying? Sheesh. I hope intelligence is reading this…
I feel for the victims, but also for the families of those executed. They’re put in a dreadful situation through no fault of their own. Must be a nightmare…
Other than Detroit they doesent happen
@DetroitThrowers100% is a stretch and you know it half of the time they really don’t seem to be
but ofc I feel more sorrow for the victims who definitely didn’t see it coming
@DetroitThrowers What?
@DetroitThrowers I can’t tell if your being satire or not
@DetroitThrowersu are fucked up man
I can understand a brother being upset about his brother's execution. But the victim's family is 'upset' too.
And Donald Grant didn't 'kill to eat' as he maintains. He killed for bail money for his girlfriend. I'm a fairly hardened guy, but killing for bail money is one of the most trivial and pointless murders ever. Grant earned his way to the execution chamber, no matter how hard his childhood was.
I agree but you have no say in how a hard childhood was
@@swank8392 I agree with you about his childhood, but at no point is it an excuse for murder. Everybody has 'circumstances', but you don't get a pass on killing because you were poor and unloved.
What's up with your first sentence? I haven't seen any comments that indicate that the victims' (plural btw) families aren't, or don't have the right to be upset. This is a piece from the brother's point of view. Also "kill to eat" is an expression. We all heard the part where he literally killed for bail money. Stop tearing this piece apart with a very messy analysis.
@@jammzy2959 Respectfully, I don't see where disagreeing with Grant's justifications for his crimes is 'messy' or inappropriate.
I take no issue with how Grant's brother feels. He's got every right in the world to feel that way. And I don't think there's anything wrong with empathy for a convict, provided that you don't lose empathy for the victim in the process.
Where I depart from the narrative is Grant's claim that he ought to get away with murder because of a lousy childhood. Grant didn't kill to survive. He killed for convenience's sake, and for that crime he was sentenced to death. As far as I'm concerned, that's an appropriate sentence. Grant forfeited the right to work and play with others.
I agree Carl
Shame his victims couldn't prepare to depart their families like he had the chance to. This is a disgrace. Trying to garner sympathy for a cold blooded killer. Is this what journalism is these days. It's an insult to the victims and their loved ones
What your brother did was unbelievable .
It's not like he could have done anything about it.
I agree, an absolutely heinous crime.
And no tv for 5 weeks. Poor guy.
@@martinc.720be a better brother and never let him go this path.
@@YurikoKataoka you can't fix someone who doesn't want to be fixed
I don't understand how anyone can shoot someone in the face and try justifying it.
ask toy our president
castle doctrine psychos do it all the time
I'm sorry I feel no compassion for him. You took the lives of two innocent people for no reason. They gave you the money and you still took their lives for no reason you deserve this this is what happens. You must pay the consequences of your actions
I’m with you. He shall be remembered for his crimes even after his death.
You are right...and having a shitty life is no excuse, my mom had a very bad life...had 6 children and we made through
Agree
Everyone is not as strong as you. Not everyone thinks like you.
Not everyone can just get over it and keep moving like you. Sometimes in life as a Human you have to come from a place of understanding.
@@edithjaimes7485 yeah that’s not the same though
“He did this crime because he was seeking our Mothers love…” I call double bulls*it !!
My heart goes out to the families of the victim, as well as the family of the murderer *because* of how painful it is to see your sibling be an entirely different person than when you were younger, and to see such a violent and hated part of the them makes the good parts only hurt more. So all around, it becomes extremely painful for everyone.
I feel badly for the criminal's family, but most of all for the families of those women. How would you like to get stabbed with a box cutter in the neck? That takes a special kind of depravity. He deserved the DP. sorry.
The murderer's family made the mistake of giving birth to him. It's their fault they allowed all this.
this is not the point of this documentary to feel sorry for the victims
Yes, I agree. What Grant did to his victims was horrific. His brother freely admits Grant’s crimes were “heinous,” which of course they were. Of course my heart goes out to the victims’ families. I know it could be argued that at least Grant got to say goodbye to his brother, unlike his victims, which is again true, but the whole horrible situation James found himself in was NOT of his choosing. He never murdered anybody. He isn’t responsible for his brother’s actions. I see it more like James, who has done no wrong, got the chance to say goodbye to his brother, not the other way around. James is a victim of his brother’s atrocious crimes as well.
@@LOLONO666 no it is Becuase the killer is human garbage who gets no sympathy
This doc produced to induce sympathy for the dude getting executed,
He shot a woman 3 times in the face for some money..
After she had already given him the money. He killed her just for fun. He's a piece of human feces who did not deserve to breathe. No sympathy for that monster.
Yeah you got it the only real injustice here is there are worse people than him who are more than free… even his brother did not really argue with his sentence…
You are absolutely right 👊 👊
Telling his childhood is to give context on what could lead to someone committing such a heinous crime. I only have sympathy for the victims and their families but I understand how a traumatic childhood could bring out the worse in people, none the less I hope the victim families have a bit of closure now.
@@manmanopoly8047 Sorry but the "terrible childhood" backstory won't make the victims' families enclosed and understanding. It will feel like an excuse to them. The backstory doesn't matter. They lost their family, their daughters, their wives, whatever. No one cares if he had a bad childhood. Knowing that doesn't help anyone. He still took 2 lives when he was an adult and could have decided against that. THAT's what matters.
Death penalty does not work as deterrent and costs more than life in prison. Nor does it reverse the crime committed. And it requires producing and maintaining infrastructure and procedure of killing citizens, not something civilized country should have.
Just use firing squads. Save the hassle and pricy chemicals...
So if someone killed your entire family with a blunt axe you wouldn’t want them sentenced to death ? Ok
While yes it costs more money and doesn't deterrent, it's still the right fit punishment in my opinion. And I think the day you kill someone is the day you die or deserve it. Taking a life is a choice and there's simply no excuse apart from self defence.
The man killed 2 women working their normal shift for money. Regardless if it costs money or not, regardless if he got life in prison or death row, the man made a choice to murder. I think the punishment fits the crime.
As a French lawyer who is of course against the death penalty, I disagree with you. It works, at least in Singapore. You can tell that's completely different, that al lot of things don't apply there, but still : it's a country with death penalty which is mostly avoided by drug traffic thanks to that. Like it or not, that's the (sad) truth.
@@ftsupreme1483 there's a reason why we have punishments set by people not involved with the crime. Otherwise many crimes would be punished by brutal violence. A society is judged not just how it treats it best but also it's worst. To murder a murderer makes us no better as in fact we are going out of our way spending much more to do it.
Being mistreated is bad. But it doesn't give you an excuse to kill people and take their lives
I think the lives of those two woman being lost is more horrific
My sympathy goes to the victims and their families.
Send them a card.
I had a very traumatic childhood with abuse. You don't have to commit crimes because life sucks.
Donald broke the laws, ESPECIALLY killing INNOCENT people, then he DESERVED to go to death row and paying the price for it WIGHOUT sympathy. He didn't have to kill 2 innocent victims just because he wanted money, what he did was cold blooded and evil. His brothers sound about 1/2 inch off from his same mentality. Donald also doesn't have a clue about what happens after this life. That's the problem with a lot of society, that there are severe consequences for living outside of a relationship with Jesus before wronging, or killing somebody, then paying the price for it. There's a REASON this country was FOUNDED UNDER the Judeo CHRISTIAN faith.
Exactly!… this is the kind of case the death penalty is for. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Did you really send your sympathies "out" or did you just write this comment to get likes?
I bet the victims who got shot in the face also wanted some “comfort, or even company”.
I'm happy this monkey isn't living off our tax dollars.
Amazes me that you can have 2 Brothers at such extreme opposite ends of the spectrum.
yes. They say if your father was an alcoholic, one son will be an alcoholic and the other will never touch alcohol.