Jan. 26, 2024 - Candace Owens
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| In 1988, a pastor, a pastor no less, hired some men to murder his wife. | |
| And one of those hit men, his name was Kenneth Smith, took part in her execution and they stabbed her 10 times and they beat her to death. | |
| Horrific. Well, the reason why Kenneth Smith is in the news again is because last night in Alabama, he was put to death and they used a nitrogen hypoxia to kill him. | |
| And that was something that was up for debate. | |
| So there were tons of articles, you probably saw this, of people just debating whether or not it was humane to put him death this way because they said that there would be a lot of suffering. | |
| And, of course, we always hear this debate. | |
| People are on one side or the other of it of whether or not the death penalty in general is something that we should still take part in. | |
| And there are tons of arguments that are for it and tons of arguments that are against it. | |
| I actually read a remarkable article that I'd like to point you guys to, and you should read it when you have some time. | |
| It was published in the Mail yesterday by Peter Hitchens. | |
| He wrote, And in the article, Peter Hitchens kind of unpacks what it was like for him watching two people be executed, one by the electric chair and essentially saying on the electric chair, their heads just burst into flames. | |
| another person who was killed by a lethal injection. People think that that's more peaceful. | |
| He alleges that it's not, but he agreed that nitrogen, the nitrogen death would be much worse, | |
| and so he was against it. It's an interesting one. When you think about the woman who was killed, | |
| you think about what she went through being beat and stabbed to death. Why do we feel sympathetic | |
| towards her killer? I'm asking this, by the way, not as me, just asking a more universal question, | |
| is why do people reserve sympathy for people who commit such heinous crimes? | |
| This is something that we've talked about on the show many times, is that we are starting to become | |
| a nation in general that is soft on crime, but there's always so much humanizing that | |
| takes place in the press when it comes to people that did rather inhumane things. | |
| And I think one of the worst aspects of being on death row is that it takes forever. | |
| You're on death row minimally, I think, always for 10 years as they're deciding your fate, pardon. | |
| And there's obviously a mental trauma that goes with that. | |
| They interviewed the pastor that spent... | |
| So much time with Kenneth Smith in prison, and he said that he was terrified and that he was nervous. | |
| The press is saying that he couldn't even eat his last meal, which was something that he had ordered from Waffle House. | |
| He wasn't even hungry. So there was a lot of humanizing that was taking place in the press here, and they didn't really talk about the woman who he killed whatsoever. | |
| So I'm asking you guys, what is your take on the death penalty? | |
| Is it archaic? | |
| Is it something that we should be doing? | |
| I'll give you my personal perspective of it. | |
| I think of what is the absolute most heinous crime that somebody can commit. | |
| And for me, it is anything that involves a child. | |
| So I do not feel anything when it comes to pedophiles. | |
| When I hear a story about children that have been raped, children that have been tortured, | |
| it just unlocks something in me. | |
| I think it is the mama bear spirits that possesses all women that have children. | |
| I felt this way even before I had children, but wow. | |
| Considering these circumstances now, it's so much worse. | |
| And I would feel nothing for a person if they were executed. | |
| But I'm against the death penalty. | |
| And I'll tell you why. | |
| Because when I consider what that person does to a child, and I consider that that person now has to grow up, | |
| and I consider what trauma that does to the adults who know that that child suffered it, | |
| and I think death is too easy. | |
| That's my perspective. | |
| When I think about what that person should have to suffer, it sounds so much worse to be put into prison | |
| for the rest of your life, solitary confinement, knowing that you have also potential fights, | |
| that you could potentially be raped in prison. | |
| Death almost seems like too easy of an option. | |
| So whenever you get into a point in your mind where you're like, this person deserves death, | |
| don't you kind of think that that's sort of easy? | |
| Well, regarding Kenneth Smith and nitrogen hypoxia, it took 22 minutes for him to die. | |
| So there definitely was a tremendous amount of suffering. | |
| He was convulsing. But again, I challenge you to think about what that young woman went through who was murdered by him, what the pastor's wife went through. | |
| Very interested to read your guys' comments regarding this. | |
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| Alright guys, we're already almost up with time. | |
| I don't even know how that happened. | |
| I feel like that was very quick. | |
| Let's jump into some of your comments regarding episodes past pertaining to the border crisis and the fact that we are kind of really actually facing a constitutional crisis. | |
| You're good, Judy, writes, Yes. | |
| That is one of the things I think is the worst, is that it seems like people that go to work are just taking advantage of people that do the right thing, people that are paying their taxes. | |
| Then you look at how they're spending your tax dollars, looking at how they're giving so many handouts to individuals for no reason. | |
| Let go of the idea that these people are pursuing a better life. | |
| Like I told you, you saw that young man that we showed you, which sounded terrible when | |
| he was essentially lacing in a threat there at the border. | |
| Something else is going on. | |
| We don't yet know what that something else is. | |
| Diane writes, there was a Cuban YouTuber who flew to Mexico and crossed the border. | |
| She made a whole video explaining how to do this and encourages people to come in. | |
| Very detailed steps of the process with prices of buses and everything. | |
| She blogged her whole experience. | |
| What's allowed on YouTube? She just committed a crime. | |
| Tell everybody else, commit a crime with me, and she's still able to be on YouTube. | |
| Yet, the policies that we have here, just amazing. | |
| Another Diane writes, Candace is right about the whole migrant situation. | |
| I'm Colombian and I can tell you for a fact that many Colombians and not the good Colombians are going to the US | |
| Because they say it's so easy to cross right now and just imagine what they're gonna get when they get here | |
| There's definitely going to be welfare benefits There's going to be no excuse for them to leave and again | |
| It's going to be our children our neighborhoods that are going to have to suffer this influx of criminals that are | |
| coming over at the border pertaining to the Taylor Swift porn AI story | |
| This person writes, banning all internet porn would make it easy to prevent this sort of thing from happening. | |
| I would ban all porn, but I don't see that going over well. | |
| At least when we were kids, porn was limited to the pages of magazines and DVDs or videotapes that had to be purchased or rented with ID. Did some kids sneak to watch it? | |
| Sure, but it was much harder to get a hold of. | |
| We should work to make porn less accessible to kids, not more. | |
| I agree with you. Put it back in magazines. | |
| Make it so that a person actually has to go to a store and show their ID and purchase pornographic material. | |
| Make them more ashamed to do it, more ashamed to engage in it. | |
| Again, as you said, it's likely never going to happen but I certainly like that idea. | |
| Mary writes, You know, something else that people pointed out in the comments that I do want to bring up was that people were saying, well, it's not the same as sexual assault. | |
| Listen, maybe sexual assault is too strong of terms, but for a woman to be violated and to have real life porn created of them, graphic porn of them created for consumers to just enjoy, and they believe it's real. | |
| That is how good the A is. | |
| It looks like it's real. | |
| It is tremendous mental suffering that a woman is going through. | |
| It's simply not fair. | |
| So is it exactly like rape? | |
| No. But is it some sort of an assault that a woman is suffering? | |
| I believe so. So maybe you think those are the wrong terms. | |
| Maybe we can come up with different ones. | |
| Hey guys, if you like this video, you will definitely like the full episode even better. |
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