Blind Magic Ep. 1679 — Botched Execution and a Mother's Quest for Justice

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Hi, everyone. It's a big, huge and wonderful welcome to you all,
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wherever you're listening throughout the world.
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This is your presenter and host, Murray Stewart. It's blind magic in Alice Springs.
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And yes, I'm your presenter and host, Murray Stewart.
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Well, well, what an absolute mess the authorities made the other day in the
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United States when it came to the execution of.
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Krista Pike.
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Yeah, Krista Pike, who I got to say, seems to be getting some sympathy from
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people throughout the world because of the botched execution.
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Now, this is a woman who has been on death row now for 30 years.
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Yes, and she was responsible primarily for the hideous murder.
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The horrible murder of a young lady at that time a young 19 year old classmate,
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and her name was a colleen slammer a beautiful young lady a wonderful young person,
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who very much had an extraordinary kind heart she was studying computers computer
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technology but she also had a want,
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and a love for volunteering to look after children with disabilities.
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In fact, during her lunch break, she would spend time feeding one of these children who was.
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Wheelchair-bound, yeah, and dedicated her time to make sure that that little
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child had sufficient food.
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She also volunteered at the Special Olympics, and we know that the Special Olympics,
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is for those people who are challenged by an intellectual disability.
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So you wouldn't meet a finer person, and yet...
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The attack on her prior to her being finally murdered as a result of this attack
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was nothing short of hideous.
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And so I'm afraid to say I don't share at all in the sympathy for this lady
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who went through this failed execution, Krista Pike.
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No, I don't, because she inflicted unimaginable pain upon this beautiful young woman,
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the kindest person, the most wonderful, kind, terrific young lady,
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and yet she was treated with utter disgraceful contempt.
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And despicable evil. Yeah, that's right, despicable evil.
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And she has been, and this is Krista Pike, has been on death row now for 30 years.
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Now, look, I get the fact that it seems that Krista Pike did not have an ideal,
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childhood. In fact, she also was subject to a lot of abuse, no question.
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But you know, I can speak with some authority in this area,
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because I've told you previously that I came from a family where,
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both myself and my identical twin brother were subject to some extraordinary violence.
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Yeah, some extraordinary violence at the hands of a sadistic father.
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And yet not once, not ever have I contemplated going down the road of being a serial murderer.
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No, in fact, if anything, I have more compassion for people because of what
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I confronted then and defeated. Yeah, that's right.
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Confronted and defeated. So too my brother.
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And I think that a lot of our compassion has been,
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on the back of understanding people who are doing it tough and who have been
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subject to less than ideal circumstances.
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And far be it from being a clinic, a serial murderer, we've set about being,
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kind to people and fighting for the underdog.
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But, I mean, I understand the sympathy. Yes, I get it.
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I totally get it. But as I say, I know where my sympathy lies.
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It lies with May Martinez, the mother of Colleen Slammer, who has been campaigning
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for many years to have the execution carried out.
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So as in her words, there can be some form of justice delivered for her beautiful daughter.
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Yeah, that's right. That's what this is all about.
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And lethal injection seemed like that was going to be.
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A preferred option against some of the other more violent options,
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of course, the electric chair or the firing squad.
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Now, let me just say here right now, I'm not a big fan of the death penalty.
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No, I'm not a big fan of it because, firstly, as a Christian,
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I believe there's only one person who is entitled to take a life,
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and that is the person who gives us life, and that is, of course, the Lord.
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But furthermore, when it comes to executions, I think that once you have state-sponsored
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killing, you become just as bad as the killer.
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And again, another point here is, what if you get it wrong?
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Yeah, what if you get it wrong and an innocent person ends up being executed?
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That would be terrible.
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Beyond belief. Awful. Something that none of us even want to begin to contemplate, surely.
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So yeah, I'm in a civilized society.
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I'm not a big rap, but I have to say that in terms of having any sympathy for
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Krista Pike, no, I do not.
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I absolutely do not.
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And as far as I'm concerned she can spend the rest of her life in jail away
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from us all and in fact she's.
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You know, in terms of the execution having failed, well, I guess if the worst
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comes to worst and she was to drift away now, well, I'm not going to lose any
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sleep over it, put it that way.
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I won't because, as I say, the unimaginable pain that she inflicted upon this
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beautiful soul, Colleen,
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that does bear some thinking about because that's where our sympathies should lie.
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Most definitely.
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Anyway, you'll have your own view, I'm sure, and maybe it's different to mine,
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and I understand that. I truly do.
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You know, I think it is a natural reaction to want to exact some form of retribution
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against someone who is so evil,
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and you know, I could have gone into some detail about the actual crime that
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was committed against Colleen, but I got to say, the the actual incident,
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itself is that evil that I think it'll be very difficult for me to articulate
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that without making us all very upset.
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So I decided not to go there on this broadcast. You can certainly look it up
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for yourself if you so choose.
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There's plenty out there about it. So So, and then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
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And I'm sure when you do that, you'll understand exactly why.
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I have my very strong feelings about having little, if any sympathy for Miss Pike because,
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yeah, no, she went to a place where I don't even think you could even,
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it's almost beyond evil, almost beyond evil.
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Anyway, I've had enough to say about this today and let me just say this name
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for the final time because you'll never hear me say her name again. Krista Pike.
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Yep, Krista Pike. That's it, folks.
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I'm not going to ever mention her name again, but I will say let's always keep
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in our heart and our memories that beautiful young lady, Colleen Slammer.
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Yeah, keep her close to us whenever this is discussed by anybody, anywhere.
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And just remember that beautiful beautiful young lady and and what good i'm
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certain she would have done on earth had she still been with us,
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all right folks this has been and it always will be episode,
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1679 a blind magic communications production.