The Last Days of Death Row Inmate Scott Dozier
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0:00 [Applause] [Music] [Music] while most of the Western world rejects
0:30 the death penalty the issue remains controversial here in the United States with the country split almost down the middle over what to do about it now this
0:38 controversy has led to every supplier of FDA approved lethal injection drugs to refuse providing them pharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced it as
0:47 blocking the use of its drugs for lethal injections in the United States that together with in like the appeals process can create endless days of
0:55 execution in Nevada one condemned prisoner has had enough so in a bizarre twist a state turned to a drug so deadly that it took the lives of 19 thousand
1:04 Americans in 2016 the opioid fenton [Music] we're driving up to Ely state prison in Nevada this is where Scott Dozier is
1:26 being held and we had an interview scheduled with him inside the prison but it was cancelled because his execution was stayed at the last minute but since
1:34 we're here we're just gonna give him a call at Nevada Department of Corrections hey
1:52 Scott Dozier is 47 years old he was convicted of two murders while manufacturing and dealing drugs in Arizona and Nevada Heller's torso was
2:02 found in two pieces placed in suitcases dumped in a valley apartment complex Dozier was sentenced to death in 2007 for the murder of 22 year old Jeremiah
2:11 Miller and after nearly a decade on death row Dozier waived his rights to appeal he told the judge he was ready to die
2:19 understand why Nevada is more than 70 men on death row but they haven't executed anybody for more than 12 years so when Dozier volunteered an October
3:25 2016 it census date to tailspin because they didn't actually have a way to execute him that's because by 2016 and every supplier of fda-approved lethal
3:35 injection drugs in the country had banned the sale of their products for use in executions pharmaceutical suppliers at once
3:42 provided the drug for lethal injection now refused Nevada was forced to search for a new solution Nebraska and Nevada are considering using fentanyl to kill
3:52 death row inmates because this drug cocktail had never been tested questions about whether the combination would be effective and humane ultimately led to a
4:17 stay of execution at the first hearing after this day it was the state prosecutors who seemed to be arguing on ders behalf it's his choice within
4:49 certain parameters because if it was really his choice perhaps the first suicide that he attempted back in some Corrections Facility in Arizona would
4:59 have been fruitful and they would have just let him pass so it's it's his choice with certain parameters right and so you know I appreciate that argument
5:09 but that's not that's not it's not as simple as that historically during a lethal injection three drugs are used in a specific order
5:16 the anesthetic makes them unconscious the paralytic renders them immobile and the last drug stops their heart while fentanyl is what made headlines it's the
5:26 use of the paralytic that the court questioned expert witnesses testified that the use of the paralytic which they say only serves to mask any suffering
5:34 could lead to a cruel death of reach of the eighth amendment so the court demanded the paralytic be removed the state however won't proceed without
5:42 it and at this point Dozier doesn't care he just wants to move forward after ten years on death row doors case continue
5:50 to stall pending a ruling from the state Supreme Court when you learned that the execution was stayed was there any part of you that felt relief I guess what
6:06 seemed a little bit strange to me is that this state wants you executed you want to be executed and yet you all aren't able to move forward with it
6:19 [Laughter] [Music] so firings well that may sound crazy a string of widely covered botched
6:40 executions is making lethal injection less and less appealing last Thursday Dennis McGuire took nearly 25 minutes to die from a mixture of
6:49 drugs never before used in executions Clayton Lockett was the first inmate injected with the state's new mix of lethal drugs but minutes after being
6:59 declared unconscious Lockett tried to lift his head and begin squirming prison officials halted the execution inmates are now requesting to be killed by
7:09 gunfire a method that is more effective than lethal injection in Utah representative Paul Reis successfully led the campaign to bring back the
7:18 firing squad in 2015 well we have a death penalty and we didn't have any way to use the death penalty you know the drug makers decided that they were done
7:27 selling drugs so we needed to have a plan B I prefer the firing squad because quite honestly what people don't see the white washing on the lethal injection is
7:37 there is suffering you know basically you're paralyzed by the medication then we stop your breathing there there's obviously a lot of agonizing how much do
7:45 you think these decisions by states to only move forward with drugs has to do with public image has to do with objects has a lot to do with it it's not a
7:54 pretty sight to take somebody's life whether you do it with Injection firing squad electric chair gas chamber whatever it's very serious
8:01 and you know the thing about the optics of the firing squad is it brings back the seriousness of what we're actually doing generally will use five shooters
8:09 four of which will have a live round one will have a blink and the target over the heart and then the orders are given and what do you say to those who argue
8:17 that the firing squad is just too brutal see what they did to their victims unless talk about being rural the fact is is these guys are monsters you know
8:25 they're not here because they sing too loud and the choir on Sunday they're here because they brutalize people the whole situation of taking a life is not
8:33 pretty if you have the death penalty you're gonna find a way to pull it off and understand that you can't window dress it which is what they've tried to
8:40 do with lethal injections or you get rid of it at least 16 states allow for other execution methods but not Nevada they're entirely reliant on lethal injection it
8:52 took an additional five months before a warrant was finally signed and dosier was given an execution date July 11th so you're gonna be dead in two days yeah
9:03 and I am how do you process that I mean as much as a person can write that's a heavy duty thing in it two days before his scheduled execution we visited
9:12 Dozier on death row for what was meant to be his final interview so you were convicted of two murders you've been on death row for ten years that's right
9:21 why are you still alive right I mean I can tell you the specifics of why it happens but you know these people
9:31 don't want to die and as long as the FPDs officer teach other people that represent us as long as no one's being killed they're cool with that so he just
9:39 uses dilatory tactics and that's the actualities of why no one's getting killed mm-hmm I don't know I mean this place as far as why the state's not
9:47 pushing for it that's not an answer I can begin to even conceive I don't know I don't get a doll why do you think the country has turned to lethal injection
9:55 as opposed to the other methods well you know that whole idea it's more humane there's just a bunch of
10:03 you know to converter and somebody man it's gonna be brutal in fact the new drug protocol released eight days before the execution included a drug substitute
10:13 that created even more controversy midazolam is the drug that's been involved in all these boxing stations these guys gasping
10:21 for air suffering for more than an hour my understanding of that is that that's a side effects midazolam a dazzling causes clinching some thrashing coughing
10:30 so actually I was gonna bring that with my mother and say the listen just so you know I've talked to people and they said that that happens with midazolam so
10:38 don't take that as indications that I'm having a bad time you know I mean so do you expect for that to happen I do and you're cool with that I don't care I'm
10:47 not gonna get up off the table how do you feel about this date using fentanyl to cut hay it's awesome man it's killing people all over the place
10:54 you guys kid pharmaceutical grade fentanyl and just bang me up man he's a ton do you believe in the death penalty you know I'm I'm
11:00 ambivalent about it because uh I think if there's a wrong that needs killing I mean if that's the answer to it see people should be able to do it but I'm
11:09 also opposed to Ameri to take governments of any sort killing their citizens so you're thankful that it's legal here
11:15 yes it's pretty completing isn't it mm-hmm do you think you deserve the death penalty no I don't though actually
11:22 however I think that [Music] if Jeremiah Miller's family really thinks I killed him they should have the
11:30 opportunity to kill me yeah I mean and so I guess maybe I do believe to some extent in an eye for eye I mean I know how I would respond if
11:39 somebody killed somebody I loved and I was sure they did it I mean like someone raped your sister the only thing you do is fill that person out of jail I mean
11:48 kill them I didn't say that I said you'd bail him out of jail it's interesting just because it's not the world we live in I get it
11:56 I lived outside that world homes in what do you hope for your son what do you hope for your grandkids
12:05 they are more successful in finding happiness and some degree of satisfaction and gratification that alive within the parameter assumes in my
12:14 inability to do that clearly is a sizable portion for me in here and I I just hope they're able to do that you know hours before his scheduled
12:26 execution while Dozier was saying his final goodbyes to his family a judge ruled to stay his execution the company that manufactured the midazolam suit at
12:36 the last minute alleging that the state of Nevada had fraudulently purchased the drug so after a decade on death row and nearly two years of trying to get
12:45 executed Dozier is now showing us just how hard it is to die on death row [Music]
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