Tennessee State Lawmaker Paul Sherrell Suggests 'Hanging By Tree' Death Row Penalty For Inmates
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is a miracle. There is no question that there
are problems in this country between police and community. Yes,
you are a donkey to the latest on that police
killing of a black man not a new development. And
the deathly spaw shooting Rampagny was a really bad day
for him and this is what he did. And so
we are in a state of emergency. Okay. White supremacist
(00:25):
violence is it always has been the number one threat
to otracide. But I'm also very proud that my wife
was white. The breakfast club bitches, please tell me why
was I your donkey of the day. Held on? Let
me sip this damn medicine. Let me tell you something,
boy in medicine balls from Starbucks be slapping you. Hear me?
(00:47):
Donkey today for Friday. March third goes to State Representative
Paul Scherrell. Now, Paul was in a House Criminal Justice
Committee meeting Tuesday discussing an amendment to a bill that
would allow death row inmates to be executed with a
firing squad. Yes, a method that is currently not allowed
in Tennessee. Now, needless to say, Paul Sharell, is it
all right? He wants to death by firing squad even
(01:09):
though it's clearly a method of execution that's cruel and unusual,
all right, even in my home state of South Carolina.
Original County Court ruled back in December that both electrocution
and the firing squad by lead to South Carolina constitution
because the state constitution bars methods of execution that a
cruel unusual are corporal, and the court found both methods
of cruel unusual in corporal. But this is what Paul
(01:31):
wants in Tennessee. Okay, this isn't all he wants. See,
Paul is old school, all right. He was born in
nineteen hundred and fifty nine, five years before the Civil
Rights Act of nineteen sixty four was implemented. The reason
I'm bringing that up is because what do you think
he was hearing as a young child in Tennessee from
the older people around him during that time? Would you
like to guess what do you think his father, his grandfather,
(01:52):
What do you think they was instilling in young Paul's head?
Do you think they was telling him about the good
old days when Lynchon was a public spectacle celebration of
watch supremacy. Is shore sounds like it? Okay, because Paul
not only wants to see death by firing squad implemented, Ye,
add him something else to the menu. Let's go to
News Channel five Nashville for the report. Please all right,
(02:15):
it's February twenty eight. Welcome to the Criminal Justice Fault Committee.
It was a typical meeting on Capitol Hill that quickly
turned to a very atypical topic surrounding death row inmates
and how they're executed, the opportunity to add a firing
squad as a method of execution, The suggestion of a
(02:36):
firing squad in the wake of several failures from the
state Department of Correction to properly follow protocol when executing
prisoners using lethal injection, leading to questions not usually heard
on Capitol Hill. Will a person be shot in the
head or the heart? Or where will a person be shot?
(02:57):
But then came the comment prompting an apology tonight. It
came from Republican Representative Paul Sheryl from SPARTA. Thank you
representing powers for bringing this. I think it's a very
good ideal. Could I put amendment on lad it would
include hanging by a tree. Also, Jesus, could I put
it in amendment on that it would include hanging by
(03:18):
a tree. Also damn seven trees bearing scrange fruit, blood
on the leaves and blooded the root. Black bodies swinging
in the seven breeze, scrange fruit, hanging from the polar trees,
hanging that good old American pastime. As I said before,
lynching was a celebration. Okay. In from eighteen eighty two
to nineteen sixty eight, four thousand, seven hundred and forty
(03:38):
three lynchings occurred in the US, according to records maintained
by NAACP, and black people were the primary victims of lynching, okay,
seventy two percent. Seventy two percent, I repeat, seventy two
percent of the people in lynch were black. But they
weren't the only victims of lynching, Okay. Some white people
were lynched for helping black people are for being anti lynching.
And for the record, there were two hundred and thirty
(03:59):
six lynch in Tennessee between eighteen seventy seven and nineteen
fifty according to the Equal Justice Initiative. Those are not
so fun facts, well, fun probably for people in Paul
Sharell's family. I'm sure he was told about the good
old days the good times they had at Lynch's, and
he would love to bring black tradition. He would love
to bring back tradition. Okay, well, tradition for you is
(04:21):
trauma for us. Paul. Now, Paul did apologize. Let's go
back to News Channel five Nashville for the report. Please tonight.
Cheryl apologized in a statement released from the House Republican Caucus, saying,
I regret that I used very poor judgment in voicing
my support of a colleague's bill, and my exaggerated comments
were intended to convey my belief that for the cruelest
(04:44):
and most heinous crimes, a just society requires the death
penalty in kind. He goes on to say, my intention
was to express my support of families who often wait
decades for justice. I sincerely apologize to anyone who may
have than hurt or offended tonight. The Tennessee State Conference
of the NAACP responded, saying, in part, Representative Cheryl's comment
(05:07):
is beyond disgusting. He is celebrating a particular form of
execution used against African Americans in Tennessee and across the nation,
including innocent and wrongfully convicted persons. In many parts of
the South. Lynchings took place in nearly every county as
it exemplified racialized and anti black violence. He's just apologized
(05:29):
because he said it out loud. Okay, remember about six
years ago, maybe a little longer than that, probably a
little longer, when President Obama was in office, and you know,
we thought we was living in a post racial America,
and there were these conversations about old biggots dying. All right,
some people would ask the question, some people would make
a statement, but basically the sentiment was racism will end
when old biggots die. I don't think anyone ever thought
(05:51):
racism would disappear completely, but that it would maybe lessen
with each generation. You know, some people, to the chagrin
of doctor Umar, talked to more into racial racial relationships
that popped up in the more by racial children there are,
the more equality we would see. I never agreed with that,
because you can be by racial, but if you present
its black, you are indeed still not ah and some
people thought the more people of color we see in
(06:13):
positions of power, it will help to change the way
people see race. Well, we had a black president, of
black and Asian vice president. We got people of color
on the Supreme Court, all throughout Congress. All I'm saying
is it's people of color in positions of power everywhere now.
But I don't feel racism lessening, okay at all, especially
when you have people like Paul Cheryl in positions of
power in their respective states. Like you know, hearing Paul
(06:37):
asking to add hanging to that amendment doesn't surprise me
in the least bit. Nope, doesn't surprise me at all,
simply because, in the words of Thanos, as long as
there are those that remember what was, there will always
be those that are unable to accept what can be
tradition for you. It's trauma for us. Please let Chelsea
(06:58):
Handle give Pashurelle to be. You can see. Ah ha,
that is way too much. Dan man is, I ain't
hear the hea hard now let me hear that he
had had. That is way too much. Dan Mann is, alright,
want to say something. Please give this giant jar of
male little biggest heah. You know, Chris Rock performing live
(07:22):
in Baltimore tomorrow for the first ever Netflix special stand
up That's gonna be live and you you're gonna hear
that tomorrow night. Okay, I've been I've seen that set
a couple of times. You gonna play it again one
more time, Chris, that's right about my girl, my girl
working this morning, right, Okay, just making sure all right,
(07:45):
everybody's up, all right, Well, thank you for that, Donkey
to day. Now when we come back, Don Tylliver will
be joining us, Yes, Don Talliver will be here. Man.
Don Tolliver is a young artist from Houston. Man. He
just had a show here in New York. He just
put out a project. Um and you know else is
gonna be joining us. Our good, our good sister Nihila Simone,
because today is Friday. You know she does pass the
ax on Friday. So she was in here with me
(08:09):
when Don Tylliver was here. So we have a nice
conversation with Don Talliver and Don Tylliver. Is Travis Scotts
Tartis he is? Yeah, I didn't know he's Travis Scots Artists.
He's Travis Scotts Aartis. Oh, I know that's cool. Nah,
I think he's Travis Scotts Aartis. Sorry you didn't talk
about that during the conversation. All right, but we'll talk
to him next. It's the Breakfast Club Good morning. The
Breakfast Club Donkey today is brought to you by the
(08:32):
law office of Michael s Lammon SAFT. Don't be a donkey.
Dive pound two fifty on your cell and say the bull.
If you've been hurting a construction accident, that's pound two
five old from your cell and say the bull.
This is a miracle. There is no question that there
are problems in this country between police and community. Yes,
you are a donkey to the latest on that police
killing of a black man not a new development. And
the deathly spaw shooting Rampagny was a really bad day
for him and this is what he did. And so
we are in a state of emergency. Okay. White supremacist
(00:25):
violence is it always has been the number one threat
to otracide. But I'm also very proud that my wife
was white. The breakfast club bitches, please tell me why
was I your donkey of the day. Held on? Let
me sip this damn medicine. Let me tell you something,
boy in medicine balls from Starbucks be slapping you. Hear me?
(00:47):
Donkey today for Friday. March third goes to State Representative
Paul Scherrell. Now, Paul was in a House Criminal Justice
Committee meeting Tuesday discussing an amendment to a bill that
would allow death row inmates to be executed with a
firing squad. Yes, a method that is currently not allowed
in Tennessee. Now, needless to say, Paul Sharell, is it
all right? He wants to death by firing squad even
(01:09):
though it's clearly a method of execution that's cruel and unusual,
all right, even in my home state of South Carolina.
Original County Court ruled back in December that both electrocution
and the firing squad by lead to South Carolina constitution
because the state constitution bars methods of execution that a
cruel unusual are corporal, and the court found both methods
of cruel unusual in corporal. But this is what Paul
(01:31):
wants in Tennessee. Okay, this isn't all he wants. See,
Paul is old school, all right. He was born in
nineteen hundred and fifty nine, five years before the Civil
Rights Act of nineteen sixty four was implemented. The reason
I'm bringing that up is because what do you think
he was hearing as a young child in Tennessee from
the older people around him during that time? Would you
like to guess what do you think his father, his grandfather,
(01:52):
What do you think they was instilling in young Paul's head?
Do you think they was telling him about the good
old days when Lynchon was a public spectacle celebration of
watch supremacy. Is shore sounds like it? Okay, because Paul
not only wants to see death by firing squad implemented, Ye,
add him something else to the menu. Let's go to
News Channel five Nashville for the report. Please all right,
(02:15):
it's February twenty eight. Welcome to the Criminal Justice Fault Committee.
It was a typical meeting on Capitol Hill that quickly
turned to a very atypical topic surrounding death row inmates
and how they're executed, the opportunity to add a firing
squad as a method of execution, The suggestion of a
(02:36):
firing squad in the wake of several failures from the
state Department of Correction to properly follow protocol when executing
prisoners using lethal injection, leading to questions not usually heard
on Capitol Hill. Will a person be shot in the
head or the heart? Or where will a person be shot?
(02:57):
But then came the comment prompting an apology tonight. It
came from Republican Representative Paul Sheryl from SPARTA. Thank you
representing powers for bringing this. I think it's a very
good ideal. Could I put amendment on lad it would
include hanging by a tree. Also, Jesus, could I put
it in amendment on that it would include hanging by
(03:18):
a tree. Also damn seven trees bearing scrange fruit, blood
on the leaves and blooded the root. Black bodies swinging
in the seven breeze, scrange fruit, hanging from the polar trees,
hanging that good old American pastime. As I said before,
lynching was a celebration. Okay. In from eighteen eighty two
to nineteen sixty eight, four thousand, seven hundred and forty
(03:38):
three lynchings occurred in the US, according to records maintained
by NAACP, and black people were the primary victims of lynching, okay,
seventy two percent. Seventy two percent, I repeat, seventy two
percent of the people in lynch were black. But they
weren't the only victims of lynching, Okay. Some white people
were lynched for helping black people are for being anti lynching.
And for the record, there were two hundred and thirty
(03:59):
six lynch in Tennessee between eighteen seventy seven and nineteen
fifty according to the Equal Justice Initiative. Those are not
so fun facts, well, fun probably for people in Paul
Sharell's family. I'm sure he was told about the good
old days the good times they had at Lynch's, and
he would love to bring black tradition. He would love
to bring back tradition. Okay, well, tradition for you is
(04:21):
trauma for us. Paul. Now, Paul did apologize. Let's go
back to News Channel five Nashville for the report. Please tonight.
Cheryl apologized in a statement released from the House Republican Caucus, saying,
I regret that I used very poor judgment in voicing
my support of a colleague's bill, and my exaggerated comments
were intended to convey my belief that for the cruelest
(04:44):
and most heinous crimes, a just society requires the death
penalty in kind. He goes on to say, my intention
was to express my support of families who often wait
decades for justice. I sincerely apologize to anyone who may
have than hurt or offended tonight. The Tennessee State Conference
of the NAACP responded, saying, in part, Representative Cheryl's comment
(05:07):
is beyond disgusting. He is celebrating a particular form of
execution used against African Americans in Tennessee and across the nation,
including innocent and wrongfully convicted persons. In many parts of
the South. Lynchings took place in nearly every county as
it exemplified racialized and anti black violence. He's just apologized
(05:29):
because he said it out loud. Okay, remember about six
years ago, maybe a little longer than that, probably a
little longer, when President Obama was in office, and you know,
we thought we was living in a post racial America,
and there were these conversations about old biggots dying. All right,
some people would ask the question, some people would make
a statement, but basically the sentiment was racism will end
when old biggots die. I don't think anyone ever thought
(05:51):
racism would disappear completely, but that it would maybe lessen
with each generation. You know, some people, to the chagrin
of doctor Umar, talked to more into racial racial relationships
that popped up in the more by racial children there are,
the more equality we would see. I never agreed with that,
because you can be by racial, but if you present
its black, you are indeed still not ah and some
people thought the more people of color we see in
(06:13):
positions of power, it will help to change the way
people see race. Well, we had a black president, of
black and Asian vice president. We got people of color
on the Supreme Court, all throughout Congress. All I'm saying
is it's people of color in positions of power everywhere now.
But I don't feel racism lessening, okay at all, especially
when you have people like Paul Cheryl in positions of
power in their respective states. Like you know, hearing Paul
(06:37):
asking to add hanging to that amendment doesn't surprise me
in the least bit. Nope, doesn't surprise me at all,
simply because, in the words of Thanos, as long as
there are those that remember what was, there will always
be those that are unable to accept what can be
tradition for you. It's trauma for us. Please let Chelsea
(06:58):
Handle give Pashurelle to be. You can see. Ah ha,
that is way too much. Dan man is, I ain't
hear the hea hard now let me hear that he
had had. That is way too much. Dan Mann is, alright,
want to say something. Please give this giant jar of
male little biggest heah. You know, Chris Rock performing live
(07:22):
in Baltimore tomorrow for the first ever Netflix special stand
up That's gonna be live and you you're gonna hear
that tomorrow night. Okay, I've been I've seen that set
a couple of times. You gonna play it again one
more time, Chris, that's right about my girl, my girl
working this morning, right, Okay, just making sure all right,
(07:45):
everybody's up, all right, Well, thank you for that, Donkey
to day. Now when we come back, Don Tylliver will
be joining us, Yes, Don Talliver will be here. Man.
Don Tolliver is a young artist from Houston. Man. He
just had a show here in New York. He just
put out a project. Um and you know else is
gonna be joining us. Our good, our good sister Nihila Simone,
because today is Friday. You know she does pass the
ax on Friday. So she was in here with me
(08:09):
when Don Tylliver was here. So we have a nice
conversation with Don Talliver and Don Tylliver. Is Travis Scotts
Tartis he is? Yeah, I didn't know he's Travis Scots Artists.
He's Travis Scotts Aartis. Oh, I know that's cool. Nah,
I think he's Travis Scotts Aartis. Sorry you didn't talk
about that during the conversation. All right, but we'll talk
to him next. It's the Breakfast Club Good morning. The
Breakfast Club Donkey today is brought to you by the
(08:32):
law office of Michael s Lammon SAFT. Don't be a donkey.
Dive pound two fifty on your cell and say the bull.
If you've been hurting a construction accident, that's pound two
five old from your cell and say the bull.
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