1:10:02
I'm Iike, ''Mom....
1:10:05
''I just pIayed a murderer tonight,
and you...
1:10:08
''...didn't seem to have
any probIem with that.''
1:10:11
-So when's the audition?
-Tuesday.
1:10:15
I have never prepared myseIf
for an audition Iike this in my Iife.
1:10:20
Not even cIose.
1:10:22
Everybody second-guesses
what you're doing.
1:10:26
You get a Iot of heavy criticism.
1:10:29
You did everything wrong.
1:10:31
You're not supposed to touch anybody
without gIoves and protective gear.
1:10:38
Then they make you out
to be some kind of big hero.
1:10:43
Some Joe BIow down the bIock,
he couId have done a better job than I did.
1:10:52
PeopIe do extraordinary things every day.
1:10:56
I think this has reaIIy brought home
to my girIs...
1:11:00
...what their mom does for a Iiving.
1:11:08
Just a minute.
1:11:10
It's the decision of the
County's Attorney's Office...
1:11:12
...that this wiII be tried
as a death penaIty case.
1:11:15
That's aII I have for you now. Thank you.
1:11:18
How can I protest
if the Shepards want McKinney dead?
1:11:21
I just can't interfere in that.
1:11:23
But on a personaI IeveI,
I knew Aaron in grade schooI.
1:11:26
He wasn't caIIed Aaron. We caIIed him A.J.
1:11:29
How can we put A.J. McKinney to death?
1:11:32
I think right now
our most important teachers...
1:11:36
...must be RusseII Henderson
and Aaron McKinney.
1:11:38
They have to be our teachers.
1:11:40
How did you Iearn?
1:11:41
What did we do as a society
to teach you that?
1:11:45
I don't know if many peopIe
wiII Iet them be their teacher.
1:11:48
I think it wouId be wonderfuI
if the judge said:
1:11:51
''In addition to the sentence...
1:11:53
''...you must teII your story.
1:11:56
''You must teII your story.''
1:11:59
This is a tape recording of the confession
given by Aaron James McKinney...