:05:05
"This time the electricity flowed
for four minutes.
:05:09
"Over the years, other witnesses
to electrocutions...
:05:12
"...have described the prisoner
catching fire...
:05:16
"...the electricity so powerful...
:05:19
"...that the eyeballs pop out
onto the cheeks...
:05:22
"...a sound like bacon frying.
:05:25
"During the autopsy, the liver is so hot
that it can't be touched by human hands.
:05:31
"Despite its best efforts,
this justice system has killed...
:05:35
"...at least 23 innocent men...
:05:37
"...and sentences blacks who kill whites...
:05:41
"...seven times more than whites
who kill blacks. "
:05:46
1890...
:05:48
...to the 1990s.
:05:50
Over 100 years of progress.
:05:55
You paint a grim picture indeed, Professor.
:05:58
I wish you had been as vivid
describing the victims.
:06:01
They were people who suffered
far more cruel and unusual punishment...
:06:05
...than any our penal system
could even imagine.
:06:08
-I refuse to believe--
-Let me finish.
:06:10
-Let me finish.
-Very well.
:06:12
I submit to you, the issue is revenge.
:06:16
An eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth, if you will.
:06:19
No, I refuse to believe
in any god or government...
:06:22
...which is willing to trade
torture for torture...
:06:26
...or death for death.
:06:31
In closing, Professor...
:06:33
...if your wife...
:06:35
...or child were murdered...
:06:37
...how would you feel
about that last statement of yours?
:06:43
How would I feel?
:06:46
Very much the same as yourself.
:06:49
But I would not want
their deaths avenged...
:06:52
...by a system as cruel
and capricious as this.