That lady was trying to defend the death penalty by referencing the execution of an INNOCENT MAN!?

@varana

5 жыл бұрын

But by that, he saved us, and he foretold it would be happening anyway, so it was ... kinda okay? :headdesk: I mean, I'm a Christian, but that is some fucked up shit.

@LiterallyCanada666

5 жыл бұрын

TitaniumTeddyBear yeah I think murder is ok because my mom was murdered once

@ultimatedespairgamer6722

5 жыл бұрын

Actually Jesus was guilty of the crime he was accused of

@leylasmith7179

5 жыл бұрын

@Ultimate Despair Gamer, actually, Jesus’ execution, and accusations, were politically motivated by the Pharisees, relying heavily on interpretation. His “crimes” were heresy and blasphemy, in which they said he was perverting and speaking against Jewish law. In actuality, Jesus interpreted Jewish law to mean something different than the Pharisees, and his interpretation was becoming more popular with the people. Fearing he was becoming too powerful, they lobbied Pontius Pilot to execute him, mockingly calling him King of the Jews, a title that could have been seen as a threat to Rome. It’s the modern day equivalent of imprisoning a journalist for reporting things you don’t like as a political dissident, like Jamal Kashoggi.

@tabithak.9923

5 жыл бұрын

@@leylasmith7179 No they weren't. He was killed by the Romans and his followers changed the story later when they were trying to convert Romans. Cue 1000s of years of anti-semitism. If Jesus did exist (which there is no evidence of outside of a bunch of magical stories written 100s of years after his death), he was just a guy who started a failed revolution.

Just wanted to point out that Judge Alex Kozinski had another interview with CBS in 2015 where the same discussion was held. He made a very effective point that has stuck with me ever since I first saw it. It went as follows: Alex Kozinski: I would eliminate the entire controversy. I would use a bullet or a series of bullets. They're fast. They're effective. Nobody ever survives. Bill Whitaker: Go back to the firing squad? Alex Kozinski: Make it look like an execution. Mutilate the body. And this would express the sense of that's what you're doing, that we're actually committing violence on another human being. Bill Whitaker: I read that you have even thought the guillotine might be a good way to execute. Alex Kozinski: Oh, yes. Bill Whitaker: Really? Alex Kozinski: The guillotine works. Never fails. It's quick. It's effective. Bill Whitaker: You do know what that sounds like, hearing a judge sort of be an advocate for the guillotine? Alex Kozinski: Tell me. Bill Whitaker: Barbaric. Alex Kozinski: The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

@rindaann6850

5 жыл бұрын

He does make a really good point, so many people fail to acknowledge that the death penalty is barbaric. I will never be okay with the death penalty.

@rafakal9823

5 жыл бұрын

Bill whitaker representing classic americans. Perfect.

@ceruchi2084

5 жыл бұрын

This is completely reasonable. You can't make killing pretty.

@EqualsThreeable

5 жыл бұрын

Who said it wasn't barbaric. I suppose all the billions of animals we kill every year isn't?

@santiagofiordalisi1474

5 жыл бұрын

@@EqualsThreeable It is too. It's just that culturally aproved by the majority. It will change at some point.

What she said literally scares the shit out of me it's terrifying when people mix their political views with their religious views

@spongeintheshoe

2 жыл бұрын

Hence the separation of church and state.

@sagelaw5997

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of weird too considering that most Christians are opposed to the death penalty. With the sanctity of life and everything

@spongeintheshoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@sagelaw5997 I think it's just that people like this use religion as a way to justify what they already wanted to do.

@dinamosflams

2 жыл бұрын

It's even worse when either of them consists of pragmatic, effective and calculated practices of KILLING A HUMAN BEING

@blackmantis3130

2 жыл бұрын

It's ironic because Jesus was against capital punishment.

“The most lethal thing to come out of a London driving school since prince Philip” this aged well

@usersaccount5706

3 жыл бұрын

It didn’t really age at all to be honest. He didn’t die driving a car, he died eating a tangfastic.

@SergheyKatastrofenko

3 жыл бұрын

Unlike Prince Philip.

@SergheyKatastrofenko

3 жыл бұрын

@@usersaccount5706 He actually died after a heart attack while he and the queen were trying some BDSM action.

@derdickemichi6434

3 жыл бұрын

@@SergheyKatastrofenko .... If this is true...imagine

@drazx6701

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

You know what, that guy at 16:16 has a point. If you're going to be in favour of the death penalty, you shouldn't suddenly get weird about the method. An injection might be more sterile/clinical for the audience, but as was discussed, it's (potentially) absolutely horrendous for the person it's applied to. Bullet(s) to the brain or decapitation is rather foolproof. What it really comes down to is that a guillotine or a firing squad reminds people to clearly of what a barbaric punishment it _actually_ is. And they'd rather pretend it's not.

@supervegito2277

4 жыл бұрын

I realized that, when he covered the paralytic.

@apathyguy8338

4 жыл бұрын

Clinically I'm against the death penalty for many solid reasons. Assuming the crime has been %100 proven guilty and I take the time to learn about the crimes these sub human monsters have done I can't feel bad about any agony they may go through even when I'd be disgusted by it otherwise. I just can't. You try. Take Clayton Lockett. Kidnapped, raped and buried alive a teenage girl. His suffering brings me joy.

@someguy1141

4 жыл бұрын

@@apathyguy8338 Yes in a perfect world we would have 100% proof that the people being executed are completely guilty of these horrific crimes. Even if that were the case which it absolutely isn't, It's about not becoming the people that they are. I understand your logic and you have every right to have no empathy for someone like Clayton Lockett ( I'm not dismissing or saying your opinion is wrong in any way) but in my personal opinion we need to be better than the people we say are monsters.

@apathyguy8338

4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy1141 As I said on a fundamental level I'm against the death penalty and would vote against it given opportunity for many reasons. But when someone like that suffers I find it cathartic if not enjoyable. So I can't get angry about it and therefor I can connect emotionally with those that want it. I only bring it up to try to better understand my own duality. Also they could have found a better example. Yes working from home may have hindered that for them.

@ArtOfficialKreations

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's like, what is our goal really? I mean, for whom are we trying to minimize the trauma?

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

@likealightning4139

5 жыл бұрын

@@Arigator2 but you can at least treat your prisoners in a humane way, which is proven to reduce violence in prison and the rate of convicts commiting further crimes after being release. and last but not least, treating them like people and not like human garbage, which most prisoners are not, is the civilized thing to do.

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

In that case, we have one severely fucked up society.

@Raincentral003

5 жыл бұрын

Cruel AND Unusual, we live in tyranny, bitches.

@Arigator2

5 жыл бұрын

@@likealightning4139 - I never said you couldn't treat prisoners humanely. So i don't even know why you are saying that. Are you able to understand the words that i am typing? I pointed out that prisons are bad primarily because they are full of criminals. If a prison was too nice i would be very worried.

@jakepietrzak7552

5 жыл бұрын

Scott Humphreys prisons aren’t just bad and improving them won’t make them good. Not everything is black and white.

One thing that nobody ever seems to bring up when discussing the death penalty is that the estimated wrongful conviction rate in the US is between 2-10%

@greyhound9967

2 жыл бұрын

He mentions it at the beginning.

@spongeintheshoe

2 жыл бұрын

As long as the death penalty exists, it _will_ be used on innocent people.

@keegansmall8959

Жыл бұрын

This is the only reason I do not support the death penalty. I strongly believe that those individuals who commit the most depraved crimes like mass murder or sexual assault on children should be killed. They are animals who will never change and as far as I’m concerned they are just a waste of space inside a prison and should have their lives ended as soon as they are found guilty. However, I believe that one single innocent person being put to death is unacceptable. Given that this happens I cannot support the death penalty. In a perfect world where no one was wrongly convicted I would strongly advocate for putting those sick individuals to death so they don’t waste anymore space on this earth. Unfortunately our world and especially the United States justice system is far from perfect

@anthonyfuqua6988

Жыл бұрын

Here in Alabama we've had too many people proven innocent while on death row. Not just the one from Just Mercy.

@kellietaylor9913

Жыл бұрын

It's more than that come on it's bs

Had to come back to watch this episode after the bomb he dropped tonight on 4/7/24. Over 4 years later and it's gotten worse. I appreciate the work John and his crew do to make a real impactful change in this world.

"Lethal injection isn't about who they are - it's about who we are." you hit the nail on the head every time

@HeilRay

5 жыл бұрын

But most don’t care. What does that say?

@jaredzambelli2824

5 жыл бұрын

And yet he's okay with abortions (even late term). Regardless of your stance on either, he's being ridiculously inconsistent

@theFORZA66

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaredzambelli2824 im for late term abortions and lethal injection Consistency 😎

@NishaWinchester

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaredzambelli2824 Except abortions ARE a medical procedure and the vast majority of late term abortions are done because something is either entirely unviable with the fetus (as in it is either already pretty much dead or it won't survive for more than a few days out of the womb, if you're lucky) or the health of the pregnant person is in danger.

@gta4everrr

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaredzambelli2824 The thing about late term abortions is that they account for less than 1% of abortions and are only performed when absolutely necessary (for the health of the mother or the baby being born with a defect that severely limits their ability to survive outside of the whom past infancy). Although abortions are legal, medical professionals have the right to refuse performing them. No medical professional would perform a late term abortion because an irresponsible woman decided she didn't want to be a mother at the last minute. Please do research, find me a case where this has happened and prove me wrong. I'd love to see it.

“The one who passes the sentence should swing the sword” -Ned Stark

@ethanarc

5 жыл бұрын

#Punisher XD

@michaelodonnell5758

5 жыл бұрын

Nuff said

@simonsakatos2372

5 жыл бұрын

Well said, my lord...😉

@SteveinSanFrancisco

5 жыл бұрын

Im down with that.. #Dredd

@CedricLogan

5 жыл бұрын

So the jury kills them?

The talk about that feeling of being unable to communicate the fact that you're still aware of what's going on hits a little close to home with me. When I got my wisdom teeth removed, I was put under general anesthesia, where they ask you to count up to 20, and before you finish you're unconscious, but the time right before I went under was awful. I couldn't move my body, but was aware of who was around me. I felt like I was floating in the air, spinning slowly and unable to breathe. My last thought was that I genuinely wasn't going to wake up. I know that that is incomparable to what lethal injections are like, but hearing about that being forced onto someone, criminal or not, just doesn't sit right with me.

@spongeintheshoe

Жыл бұрын

And with the intention that they really _won't_ wake up.

@Lapusso650

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit did you feel pain?

@heknowswherefranceis4838

Жыл бұрын

@The Last Hair Bender Not really? I was panicking and my lungs felt like they didn't have enough oxygen, but it only really lasted for no more than 2 seconds before I went under.

@Lapusso650

Жыл бұрын

@@heknowswherefranceis4838 phew

@Tabascofanatikerin

9 ай бұрын

I had quite a similar experience with my first two wisdom teeth when the anesthesia around them wouldn't work. And while I was in horrible pain but could not clearly talk, the dentist just told me to shut up and keep still.

I have always loved John Oliver and I shall never change. He’s brilliant and makes things funny even when they’re actually not. God love him

THE ROMANS WERE THE BAD GUYS IN THAT STORY, LYNN

@apathyguy8338

4 жыл бұрын

Also they have no evidence at all that Jesus was even real. Using the magical land of make believe to justify the death penalty is just wrong.

@blixer8384

4 жыл бұрын

Apathy Guy That there does not exists evidence as to the Divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is not the same thing as Jesus of Nazareth does not exist.

@ulisesdominguez7540

4 жыл бұрын

@@apathyguy8338 actually it is historically incorrect to say Jesus didn't exist, and just as ignorant as saying Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar didn't exist. Just because you're not a Christian doesn't mean you have to resort to spreading around lies about it. Well, your name has the word apathy, so that explains why you don't care about historical truth.

@apathyguy8338

4 жыл бұрын

@@ulisesdominguez7540 Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar have an overwhelming amount of contemporary evidence that denial of them is tantamount to claiming Lincoln didn't exist. Seeing as the Bible is a self contradictory mess written from oral tradition compiled between 60 and 200 years after his hypothetical death it can't be considered to be a historical document by anyone claiming to be rational. Why not use the Odyssey as historical proof of Sirens and witches. Add to that there's not a single piece of contemporary correlation has ever been discovered. You truly need to educate yourself on the facts without allowing your desired beliefs to take control of your cognition.

@apathyguy8338

4 жыл бұрын

@@blixer8384 I never placed divinity in my statement and have no idea why you did. At the end of the day no evidence as to his existing has ever been found. Sure you can believe if you want and no one prove he didn't live but we have better evidence that Bigfoot is living in Montana than if Jesus was real.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf to Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, that made me emotional! I forgot about that!

@nicbarrax76

5 жыл бұрын

This was the comment I was looking for, even though I didn't know it until I saw it. Thank you!!!

@jdsteppenzyde

5 жыл бұрын

One of my all time favorite quotes. Thanks.

@Megha403

5 жыл бұрын

Very apt.

@randomperson8571

5 жыл бұрын

Um yeah so J. R. R. Tolkien had a lot figured out. Not everything, but a lot.

It takes talent and a lot of empathy to understand how heavy this topic is and find a way to talk about it while still keeping it from getting too heavy for listeners. We need to be informed about this but its hard to listen to how horrible it is long enough to do so I applaud John Oliver and his writers for finding a way to do it.

shaun did a really good video on the death penalty and I like the way he framed it. He framed it as "Lets assume that there are some crimes where killing someone is objectively the right thing to do, I'm not going to argue with you on that, lets just assume its true. The government still shouldn't be able to do it."

@Nimish204

2 жыл бұрын

They can send you to war, but they can't kill the scum of Earth? Make it make sense

@averyn34

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nimish204 dont really need to make it make sense also two things can be wrong at once. Also "scum of the earth" is assuming alot. The justice system gets things wrong all the fucking time, literally all the fucking time, and sometimes they get it INSANELY wrong whether its police misconduct, investigation laziness, prosecutorial misconduct so on and so forth. The thing is, its cheaper for tax payers to not use the death penalty and if a man is exonerated you can release him from prison. If he's exonerated you cant bring him back from the dead.

@FlexedNoose

Жыл бұрын

The government should do it, but it should only be for the most morally reprehensible crimes.

@averyn34

Жыл бұрын

@@FlexedNoose and the burden of proof needs to be crazy high

@averyn34

Жыл бұрын

@BlackLivesMatter The level of evidence needs to be high, even a confession isnt great because police coerce confessions literally all the time.

Going with the anti-incest stance when you have Game of Thrones as a lead-in. Bold move.

@vishishify

5 жыл бұрын

I mean its not like GoT endorses incest

@joshwilner5622

5 жыл бұрын

@@seedlesswatermelon417 his leaving to kill Cersei

@seedlesswatermelon417

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshwilner5622 haha yeah 30 minutes after i made that comment i saw some people talk about it and realized that he was gonna try to kill Cersei. Hell yeah!!!

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I lost all interest after that. Don't fuck your relatives, folks!

@cs82271

5 жыл бұрын

Tf did incest come from? It's a joke for Alabama and even then it's relatively false

I first thought, they make the poisen for the injection out of the frog.

@Shaleen61

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude!!! Knowing John and how his episodes turn out, I thought he would say "as cute as their war cry may be, look how they are crushed to extract the poison".

@arrow_awsome

5 жыл бұрын

Same.

@LucanVaris

5 жыл бұрын

Only if it's a gay frog.

@762x69

5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Grifter Alex Jones is that you? Lol

@BothHands1

5 жыл бұрын

Only if they want the prisoners to trip balls before their execution

The most humane death penalty is anesthesia. Supply enough anesthesia so the prisoner passes out then keep applying it until their heart stops. Humane, works without torturing the convicted and is lethal. However no anesthesiologist would do that. For obvious reasons.

@ariandynas

3 жыл бұрын

And also as it turns out is actually *really* hard to do to a healthy person, and would require a downright Keith Moon level of drugs to do. Hardly cost effective - among its other issues. And all that assumes it 'goes right'.

@conors4430

3 жыл бұрын

Again, that also doesn’t get around the fact that how do you know without doubt that the person you’re killing is actually guilty. At least if you are in jail for life you can be released with new evidence, yes you can’t get your life back, but you haven’t been murdered by the state. America is one of those countries that spends more time working out nice pleasant ways to kill people rather than working out, why they have such a problem with fucking crime and homicide in the first place

@ariandynas

3 жыл бұрын

@@conors4430 I believe he was playing devil's advocate here.

@ILuvAyeAye

3 жыл бұрын

That would effectively kill most people quickly... But most isn't all. Human beings can be remarkably difficult to kill, and we don't respond reliably to medication. A firing squad is more reliable, but I'm sure if we use it enough times we will find a horrifying example of what a man can survive. Of course blood loss will always get you eventually. My dad came very close to dying from blood loss, he said that part was surprisingly peaceful. It's still a horrible and inhumane thing to do to a restrained human being.

@ellentheeducator

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I disagree. As people pointed out, it won't always work, and definitely not quickly or smoothly. As the guy said, the guillotine is the closest to humane this practice can get. It's instant, painless, and cannot fail to kill. The only reason it's not done is as almost everyone involved in this episode said - it's all a show. We want to still kill people, but we want to pretend it can be some gentle, bloodless thing.

My dog got excited from that frogs noise lol 😂😂😂😂

That has to be the GREATEST lead-up to an ending joke I have ever seen.

@-gemberkoekje-5547

5 жыл бұрын

There's a stray cat here. We need to call animal control to catch this cat!

@StrayCatBard

5 жыл бұрын

@@-gemberkoekje-5547 "MA! There's a weird fucking stray cat outside! I don't want it starting a fight with Lucy!"

@graceddiegallagher

5 жыл бұрын

Stray Cat MA AHHHHHHHH!

@imaginaryboy2000

5 жыл бұрын

NANI???

@-gemberkoekje-5547

5 жыл бұрын

@@StrayCatBard "It looks like grandma the focking thing!"

John Oliver should turn the Desert Rain Frog into the official mascot of Last Week Tonight

@thewonderlander1372

5 жыл бұрын

Chi john

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

Why not the parrot, since that's kind of what he looks like?

@randomperson8571

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, since they had to give away Chii-John to that town in Japan

@somethingwithmusic9520

5 жыл бұрын

John already declared the Red-Tailed Hawk as the official LWT animal. kzread.info/dash/bejne/p52CwY96dcu6oM4.html

@colem631

5 жыл бұрын

@@somethingwithmusic9520 Oh, well shit

Firing squad is easily the best method. Cost effective, quick and despite the pain of being shot, it certainly beats the torture of lethal injection.

1. John Oliver’s “when GOT ends HBO is fcked” running gag really paid off in a way no one expected 2. Jesus Not-A-Death-Penalty-Justification Christ this episode is horrific

Me: “mom can we stop for sodium thiopental” Mom: “we have sodium thiopental at home” Sodium thiopental at home “Madazalan”

@bobbybobberson3374

4 жыл бұрын

Sodium thiopental, is a barbiturate while Midazolam is a benzodiazepine; different drugs from different classes.

@Budmiren

4 жыл бұрын

I lol’d 😂

@jkhtravelrn

4 жыл бұрын

Gd_ Godmarc you’re wrong. Midazolam is also known as Versed” pronounced ver-SED. It is used for conscious sedation in GI procedures like colonoscopies, as well as other procedures to make the patient comfortable and unable to recall the procedure. It is used in combination with Propofol, fentanyl, for instance, to sedate a patient being intubated for placement of a breathing tube because of lung issues, or a “Portacath” for a patient to receive chemotherapy, or other necessary medications. It’s a benzodiazepine, while Sodium thiopentithol is a barbiturate used primarily in the induction of sedation for surgery. Conscious sedation does not usually require an Anesthesiologist. Total sedation is controlled by an Anesthesiologist who also intubates the patient prior to the start of a surgery performed by other doctors. Try looking up a medication before commenting about it. It will help you with spelling the word, as well as sounding ignorant instead of witty, or whatever you’re going for. FYI

@ecezar7297

4 жыл бұрын

@@jkhtravelrn smh nerd, just laugh at the joke

@Elenrai

4 жыл бұрын

@@jkhtravelrn ....no.

I felt like one of those questions for that doctor should have just been... "Have you been involved in research?"

@salmaaziz9860

5 жыл бұрын

john said he is not a medical doctor

@muhaoai4693

5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the person questioning was just being very specific. Those were all yes/no questions, and so there wasn't much room for spin.

@GoogleGebruiker

5 жыл бұрын

@@salmaaziz9860 doctors in pharmaceutical sciences do research.

@allgood2

5 жыл бұрын

LOL! As they finished the questions, I was like, clearly, these questions should have been asked in reverse. Starting with the 'have you done or been involved in any anesthetic research?' should have been closer to the starting point. But admittedly, after all of that, I would have also asked, when, if ever, was the last time you were in a research lab?

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he and that weird senator got married?

A 19 minute & 6 second long setup that ends with a fantastic 3 second punchline omg WOW❤ BRAVO!!

Well this became relevant again. Rest in peace, Brandon Bernard.

@ILuvAyeAye

3 жыл бұрын

I came here after another person's DNA was found on the weapon supposedly used by Ledell Lee to commit murder. He was put to death 4 years ago, insisting he was innocent. Sadly, I think this video is often relevant, if you live in the US.

@ChJuHu93

2 жыл бұрын

@@ILuvAyeAye Well even with conservative estimations you usually exceed 1% of the executed to be innocent.

Christians forgot that the part where Jesus gets killed by the Roman Empire is supposed to be a tragedy.

@pedrop218

4 жыл бұрын

2edgy4me

@juicy84872

4 жыл бұрын

Good Friday, educate yourself edgelord

@applejuicejunkie316

4 жыл бұрын

Why would it be a tragedy when he died for all man's sins to be reconciled to God?

@benjisaac

4 жыл бұрын

applejuicejunkie316 because He is innocent and pure and definitely shouldn’t have had to die because we fucked up? a day in hell is an insane price to pay for us; just because it was good doesn’t mean it wasn’t sad

@jmurray1110

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t it technically 3 days and a far quicker death than any of the other victims as in John wasn’t pilot (fuck the spelling) surprised that he died before the sabbath when the Jews wanted the break the victims legs to bring about the auto erotic (is that right or just autocorrect) asphyxiation that usually kills them

"It's not about who they are, it's about who we are." That is the most poignant statement from this show ever.

@Wesker10000

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Who we are. That prison he mentioned in this, that Lockett guy? He shot and buried a 19 year old girl alive. So what does it say about us if we treat such a person better than he ever did for his victim? What does it say about us if we coddle murderers who shatter families and bring pain for no reason to people's lives? Let's say if I hide a Nazi because I didn't want him to be executed for war crimes? You know what that makes me? A person with very sick ideas about justice.

@angrytom1923

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wesker10000 Exactly. There's a real good reason Oliver failed to mention the crimes of any of the death row inmates he talked about here. It makes it easier to sympathize with psychopaths and murderers.

@xiomara5147

4 жыл бұрын

Hogwire so he’s a monster and that justifies our turning into monsters to retaliate?!? If you think what he did is so bad why would you turn around and do the exact same thing? That makes NO sense! Personally, if I was kidnapped & enslaved & tortured for months then killed in a slow & painful way, I wouldn’t want any of my loved ones looking for revenge like that! For one thing it doesn’t undo anything- I would still be dead! My friends and family would still be sad. It wouldn’t ease their pain to know another person suffered my fate. I think it would only change my loved ones for the worst because I expect better from them than I do of monsters.

@Wesker10000

4 жыл бұрын

@@xiomara5147 I'm going to respond to all your points: 1. Killing Lockett doesn't make me a monster, nor does it make me 'just like him.' Here's why: What Lockett did was wrong because he killed an INNOCENT YOUNG WOMAN. She did not deserve what happened to her. Murdering Lockett is not equal to murdering an innocent young girl, its simply giving him what he deserves. So yes, killing him for killing an innocent makes lots of sense. 2. You have no idea you wouldn't want revenge. Even if that's the case you'd be dead. So you wouldn't 'want' anything. How would you want your family to treat this person who tortured you to death? Have him over for dinner? How do you know it wouldn't make them feel better? Have you ever had someone you love taken from you? I have. My father was killed when I was six years old. If I saw on the news that someone had raped and murdered the man who did it, you fucking bet that news would brighten my day.

@TimeOfSin

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wesker10000 If 4% of them are supposed to be innocent it doesnt make us all that much different from your hypothetical killer. At least in 4% of casses.

I just reread The Giver, and this reminds me of it more than I would like.

WOW JOHN I LEARN SO MUCH FROM YOU AND ADDING THE HUMOR TO IT MAKES IT EVEN BETTER FOR THOSE WHO DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND......YOU REALLY ARE ONE OF THE BEST THIANK YOU FOR BEING JOHN OLIVER.........😊

"Have you even been involved in research?" "No."

@Zman9042

5 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing!

@LukeRen-rl4yv

5 жыл бұрын

"do you have roblox installed?" "I refrain from answering anymore questions."

@kylechildress536

5 жыл бұрын

For some reason I kept expecting him to eat a turkey sandwich.

@candywarmuth2455

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have a heart? Brain? Soul?

@israco89

5 жыл бұрын

You know what the world research means?

Shouldnt the argument "Whoopsie, we might have just killed the son of god" be used against the death penalty? This really doesnt sound like a thing you want to do twice.

@jonathansanders5308

5 жыл бұрын

If we did, wouldn't he just get back up again after a few days? if anything we should keep all the bodies around to see if any get back up. OK aside from how horrible my previous statement was I am currently against the death penalty due to cost and that we currently are at a 4% error rate.... should those two things change in the future I will reevaluate my stance.

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but who said all Christians were sane? There's a reason I no longer believe in God.

@Anirossa

5 жыл бұрын

Religion really doesn't sound like a thing we would want to do twice x.x

@skjelm6363

5 жыл бұрын

When they can't kill someone, they'll waste some kids and cover it up with their 'belief'

@jakethewoz

5 жыл бұрын

Who would that persuade? The whole point of christianity is that he died for some people's sins. That's like the whole point.

Can we get a frog episode? I know there's A LOT to cover in the next season but it would be a fun episode.

Imagine 100 years from now, people stumbling upon John's websites 😂

I love how he keeps emphasizing that HBO will be completely lost without Game of Thrones. He’s just relishing it and it’s so damn funny : D

@IsraTheBlack

5 жыл бұрын

There are already 3 spin-offs planned fyi.

@odeiraoloap

5 жыл бұрын

They'll be fine. Just like how Netflix is doing just fine without House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. They are just as unrestrained on what content they can make, so another cult following show will be developed sooner rather than later.

@andysorensen1737

5 жыл бұрын

Paolo Ariedo Much like when Sopranos ended, people were all “Where does HBO go?” They’ll be fine.

@chandlerwright5460

5 жыл бұрын

They have Westworld and Watchmen

@5pctLowBattery

5 жыл бұрын

What’s he going to do without the dragon money, so he can fund the necessary end of shows props?

The good shit to watch while breakfast.

@Smuffez

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah!

@jakob19982010

5 жыл бұрын

@Alfredo Barragan 502 about 9am, Germany. Unemployed, so it's the perfect time for breakfast.

@oskarbondesson4936

5 жыл бұрын

same

@derdude3796

5 жыл бұрын

@@jakob19982010 me too technically. Well... Actually I'm writing my a-levels atm but my next exam is wednesday so atm I'm unemployed

@thomas.02

5 жыл бұрын

@@derdude3796 all the best in your exams!

I had medalazam (in addition to actual anesthetic drugs) for my ankle surgery. Medalazam made me sleepy and on it I remember brief flashes of going to the operating room. I remember my surgeon talking and me thinking “I’m not fully under” and then they gave me actual anesthesia

@flyaround312

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, midazolam is given *before* anesthesia to help people relax and reduce their anxiety before surgery and it's also used for conscious sedation procedures. It won't put you to sleep, it won't relieve severe pain, and even the sedative effect will disappear if someone is paralyzed, suffocating and having fire injected into their veins

@Lapusso650

Жыл бұрын

@@flyaround312 but you would be unable to wake up by the time the sedative wears off. And that’s because of the suffocation. So no suffering.

@Lapusso650

Жыл бұрын

They use a much higher dose for executions. So you to pass out

@flyaround312

Жыл бұрын

​@@Lapusso650 Either you completely misunderstood the entire video and our comments or you're pretending that you did. I'm guessing it's the latter but in case you really are confused I'll explain it again: *It's physically impossible for someone with a functioning brain to stay asleep while suffocating and experiencing severe pain unless they've been given general anesthesia.* Sedatives ARE NOT an anesthetic. General anesthesia causes a forced state of unconsciousness which shuts off your survival instinct and prevents your brain from responding to pain signals. Sedatives don't work that way. A very large dose of a sedative can make you drowsy enough to fall asleep, although that's very unlikely to happen when you know you're about to be executed but even if you do fall asleep at first you WILL wake back up as soon as the severe pain and asphyxia starts.

@Lapusso650

Жыл бұрын

@@flyaround312 that is incorrect. Otherwise they wouldn't be using that drug. There have been multiple court cases about this.

I was against the death penalty to begin with, and I have heard some horror stories about lethal injections, but this takes the cake.

"Have you been involved...in research?"

@randibgood

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that would have been a time saver! No need to list all of those drugs individually.

@s.a.h.b5173

4 жыл бұрын

NO....

@RobertMichael

3 жыл бұрын

“... No”

@lilsunflower9655

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s to hit the point home. Then in court you can show that they admitted to not researching any of the drugs in question. In court the lawyer could argue “well you didn’t ask my client specifically about XYZ. He misunderstood the question.”

@amen_actually

3 жыл бұрын

no❤️

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" - Lord Eddard Stark

@pawnzrtasty

5 жыл бұрын

No... George rr Martin wrote that and created the character

@jirobow

5 жыл бұрын

@jocaguz18 unless you are a psychopath, I really doubt that.

@cyancyborg1477

5 жыл бұрын

@@pawnzrtasty Can you chill out, man? You know what he meant.

@waves_under_stars

5 жыл бұрын

Some interesting bit of useless knowledge: the jewish bible describes a punishment (that was never used) given to children that are rebellious, useless, and only eat and drink (alcohol) all day. The parents would bring the child to the city elders, and then the child would be stoned to death in the city square. Anyway, Chazal decided that in any case this punishment would ever be administrated, the parents should be the ones to throw the first stone, and it wasn't used once in jewish history.

@themyopictimes1354

5 жыл бұрын

@@waves_under_stars The "Jewish" bible? You mean the old testament? Which is also a cornerstone of the christian faith...

I'm proud to be a Queenslander from Australia which was one of the first jurisdictions that banned capital punishment. No matter how you look at it killing is wrong and two wrongs never make a right. Even worse if an innocent person wrongfully convicted is executed, who should shoulder the blame?

I remember watching this episode when it first came out - after this episode was over I was completely against capital punishment.

"Lethal injection isn't about who they are, it's about who we are." - Best JO quote ever

@ZacksRockingLifestyle

5 жыл бұрын

M. Miel But isn’t life imprisonment, or extended sentences (sentences meant to extend beyond how long a person could reasonably live, such as when people get 200 years for various combined crimes) just a realllllly slow death sentence? And how do you think most people serving life/extendeds die? They get sick, then suffer, and then die. It’s not very common for lifers to just die peacefully in their sleep or anything like that. Bodies should rot in the ground, not in a cell.

@TheZeroNeonix

5 жыл бұрын

@@ZacksRockingLifestyle - The same could be said of people living outside of prison. Most people do not die in their sleep. They get sick, they suffer while medical staff work to keep them alive, and then they suffocate. That doesn't mean we should just blow up the earth and get all our deaths over with.

@GibDozer1

5 жыл бұрын

Really because I think it's bullshit. There is a difference between murder and punishment. It's an important distinction that John ignores here. Like covering how Lockett died but not the grisly details of his crime. He kidnapped, beat, and shot, a teenage girl before he buried her alive. He was a monster but we are bad people because he suffered when he paid for his crime...

@SaurabhKumar-uo6ms

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheZeroNeonix what he meany was if death penalty is bad so is life sentence. how can you put human in cage for life? there should not be life sentence to anyone.

@Scorpion122178

5 жыл бұрын

@@GibDozer1 yeah when i looked that up I was kinda glad that he suffered as much as he did before he died. These people don't deserve sympathy. Or mercy. They're not even humans. At best rabid animals that need to be put down, at worse demons from the pits of hell made flesh. I'm never going to be moved by the "we're better than this" argument. Everyone is better off pointing out how innocent people are sentenced to death. That alone is the reason I support abolishing the death penalty.

To go from adorable Japanese mascots to the death penalty is a little bit of a 180°

@ilovefunnyamv2nd

5 жыл бұрын

Thats why he smoothed it out by a super cute frog angry and ready for battle

@lnsflare1

5 жыл бұрын

Not really. Hello Kitty would kill is all, if she could.

@CyberKirby

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to John Oliver.

@alynt9260

5 жыл бұрын

Well...did you know Japan still hangs people? ;)

@aliexpress96

5 жыл бұрын

Last episode was shittiest and most boring ever

16:15 “Guillotine? Cmon.” The only reason people don’t want the guillotine is because it makes the pro capital punishment proponents feel better about a “clean” execution. Smh16:37 Hilarious

@Perfectpearl

3 жыл бұрын

18:30 Yessssss! 👏 👍🏾

Saying it for emphasis: Should never be operated for profit: 1. Healthcare 2. Prisons/Jails 3. Education Corresponds exactly with: 1. Life 2. Liberty 3. Pursuit of happiness

I watched this with my mom. That wasn't awkward at all.

@Konayo_

5 жыл бұрын

Do you agree with the reasons though?

@DragonZerul

5 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

Oh dear God!

@Laezar1

5 жыл бұрын

Well of course it's not awkward. I mean you wouldn't even think about fucking her right? Right?

@DeAthWaGer

5 жыл бұрын

What position were you two doing?

That 20 minute walk to the end of a punch line lol. Damn John.

@DoomChild31

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he took a really long trip around that joke, but I think it made it better.

@nonamedpleb

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, the writing in this show is one of the best parts of it.

@erbgorre

5 жыл бұрын

@@nonamedpleb the irony of it directly following up game of thrones at this point ;D

@kealebogancube7111

5 жыл бұрын

I know this was a serious, insightful topic but this is the best well structured piece of comedy i've seen this year so far!!!!

@1121494

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but doesn't it make the point evade Alabamans somehow though?

Four years later and wikileaksorwhatever is still up and running.

I think if a jury gives out the death penalty, it should be that jury who carries it out. Make then have the courage of their convictions.

@soldiaz7261

7 ай бұрын

juries are the only people less qualified to do it, but judges and juries being expected to watch, id say. or just to see what they look like

He made the best point right off the bat. 4% executed are eventually found to be innocent. The state executing one innocent person is already too many.

@GHustle4

5 жыл бұрын

if they were innocent then how the hell were they convicted and not have their case dismissed shortly after?? some cases have been proven to be incorrect I get that but come on man you wouldn't be there for no reason....

@Kokorisu

5 жыл бұрын

@@GHustle4 Congratulations on spotting the massive problem.

@robertnett9793

5 жыл бұрын

@@GHustle4 Hm. Sheriff wants to be judge, Deputy wants to be Sheriff - policy of the hard hand gets votes - so let us lead this poor bloke to sign a confession... Or more generally - if some terrible crime is commited, the only way to appease the public is to present a perpretator, convict and sentence him. It's secondary if the convicted one is the right one. That happens, if 'retaliation' becomes part of the legal process.

@kcallamajaji

5 жыл бұрын

@@GHustle4 You are kidding right? Do you know how many people confess to crimes they didn't commit? This targets black people most of all. They are lied to by the police, told if they confess, they'll get to go home faster. And this is just one of the MANY issues in our justice system. Yes, some people are put there for other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or looking "similar" to the actual criminal. 1 innocent person being killed by state should be enough of a reason for this not to happen.

@heliumphoenix

5 жыл бұрын

@@GHustle4 - Because our justice system rewards the prosecution for numbers of convictions. It rewards the enforcement personnel based on arrests. The system is stacked AGAINST the defendant. Being innocent is immaterial to the system. Exculpatory evidence is non-admissible in most cases (that's evidence that PROVES innocence.) There are stacks and stacks of cases of enforcement planting evidence and lying so they can arrest, and of prosecution suppressing evidence that would exonerate or lead a jury to a non-guilty verdict. The majority of such cases are NOT highly publicized. In fact, the media is often forbidden to reveal such details by court orders and laws, even if they get the information in the first place. Our justice system in the US is supposed to be based on the assumption of innocence, yet every thing that has been put in place since the late 1800s has eaten away at that assumption. Unbalanced funding which favors prosecution, laws which prevent the presenting and admissibility of exculpatory evidence, plea-bargaining, and more. The prosecution will do all kinds of things to extort a plea-bargain. It saves them having to actually go to trial, counts as a conviction, and the accused effectively loses most rights of appeal. You really should research what actually goes on in how the accused and convicted are treated in our justice system. It's quite reprehensible.

I love how meta John can be about his own network. Even if it’s satirical

@rodrigovda

5 жыл бұрын

To a non American, I don't understand, could you explain the joke? Isn't HBO this network? Why would it be "fucked" because of game of thrones?

@tibabalaseo2046

5 жыл бұрын

@@rodrigovda hey bud, GOT is their biggest show ever. When it's done, they might not have anything else to carry the network in terms of revenue/subscriptions/profit

So happy to find that they still have this website

Well said

Oh John my sweet summer child. It's Zootopia by a wide wide margin.

@Jansk1h

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I mean come on. That cop bunny is HOT.

@AmericanAppleProd

5 жыл бұрын

Youre a furry

@catblimp7894

5 жыл бұрын

Nick Wilde is sexy.

@love-hammer

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like they chose Monster's Inc just so people would disagree because they know how much rule34 Zootopia content is out there.

@anthonymacconnell8817

5 жыл бұрын

Sully though

I wonder how many website domains John Oliver has bought so far

@kylestubbs8867

5 жыл бұрын

If you're keeping count, he mentions three of them in his video about Rudy Giuliani.

@MephLeo

5 жыл бұрын

Someone should do a tally of that.

@LMC_Jarred

5 жыл бұрын

​@@kyara7032 And now we wait for it to be updated with tonight's, lol.

@waleskatorres-toro

5 жыл бұрын

@@kyara7032 thanks 😄

@blar210

5 жыл бұрын

Ask HBO they probably have the receipts lol

Thank you for the work you've done. I wish I knew all of this sooner.

Every lethal injection proponent needs to watch the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon," and really internalize Jim Kirk's speech about the brutality of war and suffering and how monstrous we can become when we forget the reality of violence.

@geekgirl_luv4262

Жыл бұрын

YES. Star Trek has so many great philosophical episodes. There have been so many times when a moral issue will get brought up and my immediate thought is “oh hey, there was a Star Trek episode about that” lol

@BlueScarabGuy

Жыл бұрын

Honestly might be my favorite TOS episode, what a perfect mix of entertainment and moral.

I could use a "Chiijohn meets the desert rain frog" segment right about now

@Jkstolz

5 жыл бұрын

666tbird yess- much better lol

As bad as capital punishment is, the Guillotine really has proven to be one of the most humane methods.

@rcr257

4 жыл бұрын

What about the euthanasia coaster?

@MahraiZiller

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Because experiments conducted during the white terror period in France determined that decapitated heads remain conscious for several minutes, with the eyes of the victims even noted to actually move with purpose and follow people moving around them. Not sure I’d class several minutes of consciousness as a severed head as “humane”.

@rcr257

4 жыл бұрын

@@MahraiZiller e u t h a n a s i a c o a s t e r

@MahraiZiller

4 жыл бұрын

Eat the Rich toche 😉🤣

@BlackBanditXX

4 жыл бұрын

A pneumatic hammer to the back of the head works well for slaughterhouses. Quick and efficient.

Congratulations, John. You may have actually managed to change my mind on the death penalty

@anishraja9655

8 ай бұрын

Finally, someone. The power of lethal injection to turn us all away from the death penalty.

The way I see it, if there is any chance, whatsoever, that you may end up executing an innocent person, then the death penalty is off the table full stop. Now, because there is always a margin for error in conviction, that means the death penalty should be completely outlawed.

@shawncusack2066

9 ай бұрын

There’s cases where I think it’s 100%, absolutely the thing to do, and the person is clearly guilty of what they did. The problem is, I don’t trust anyone in government to properly draw that line.

To quote the famous bumper-sticker: "You can't kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong."

@ZacksRockingLifestyle

5 жыл бұрын

Lazy Perfectionist but aren’t life sentences just a death sentence that’s played in slow motion?

@erwank9240

5 жыл бұрын

Lazy Perfectionist Not that I disagree with your conclusion but this reasoning is wrong. The action of killing people in the first place is only wrong in his context, punishing someone by the same mean change the nature of the act. By the same logic, we could say that locking up someone who looked up someone because locking up someone is wrong.

@Chroniom

5 жыл бұрын

Erwan K Nö: what does distinguish us from an animal? The ability to understand and forgive. That’s even in the bible. So, should we become as bad as the murderer and slaughter them as well? Would we be any better? Prison however can be a chance for them to redeem themselves and at least earn a little bit of forgiveness. Modern Prisons should be areas of betterment. To be and to become a good or at least a forgiven person, you don’t need to be free. But you need to be alive.

@SaurabhKumar-uo6ms

5 жыл бұрын

killing is not wrong and if killing is wrong than start disarming your police,army etc.

@kazumahazeuzumaki

5 жыл бұрын

Uh, yes you can?

The subject of the episode aside, John was really popping in this one. He landed everything with just the right amount of energy and timing. Great episode.

@anonamous365

5 жыл бұрын

Propaganda at its finest

@HontounoShiramizu

5 жыл бұрын

With a small exception of ommiting the questions: Was Sodium Thiopental working as full anesthetic (the video seems to suggest so)? And if it was: who was the idiot who made using it illegal and for what reason?

@surveysays8335

5 жыл бұрын

Are you on crack? Every single episode is the same. The same outbursts. Same profanities. The only thing missing here was some Trump attacks.

@nathanielmathews2617

5 жыл бұрын

@@surveysays8335 lol it uses a similar style of humor but it is far from having that be the case. His humor is based on a similar system most talk shows go with but specialized to him naturally.

@nathanielmathews2617

5 жыл бұрын

@@anonamous365 lol this isn't propaganda and it does say something that is very true. It is bullshit as it currently stands and if you use humane execution as a reason for supporting the death penalty, it is invalid upon scrutiny.

Who else is here to rewatch parts 1 and 2 of what's now officially a death penalty trilogy?

As someone molested by their mother, the bizarre fixation the writers have with bringing back the “sex with mom checklist” joke four times in 15 minutes is legitimately unsettling.

"True courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when it spare it." -A fucking awesome wizard.

@TonytheTono

5 жыл бұрын

@cornskid firstly, friend, it's a quote. From Gandalf. You should have this argument with a fictional character instead.

@Torterra625

5 жыл бұрын

cornskid How about the courage not to give into the first base instinct to kill based on anger and hatred? The courage to want to be better than the people we convict? And maybe try and help them be better as opposed to just deeming all prisoners lost causes?

@Khwerz

5 жыл бұрын

Prison life is not much of a life

@Arthur-ul2dh

5 жыл бұрын

​@cornskid What is the definition of courage ? Maybe we don't understand it, explain, please.

@iwontliveinfear

5 жыл бұрын

@@Khwerz that is kind of the point.

John's Mom must feel so slighted right now.

@angeluscorpius

5 жыл бұрын

John needs to apologise to his mom... And his dad... Imagine the neighbours talking to Mrs Oliver, "oh! I watch your son on telly last night. Did you know he was thinking of snogging you?"

@Littlesaintfortnite

5 жыл бұрын

JON, not JOHN come on snowflake

@Littlesaintfortnite

5 жыл бұрын

@@angeluscorpius *ApologiZe with a Z you snowflake.*

@ultraviolet3905

5 жыл бұрын

@@Littlesaintfortnite you're thinking of the wrong guy snowflake.

@couragekarnga8735

5 жыл бұрын

That was the weirdest thing since the Santa sketch from the clip about Mexican elections!

2023, can confirm that web page still works.

@julonkrutor4649

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, i looked too ^^

Id seriously feel 100% better about the death penalty if , those in favor of it, did not refer to it as "justice". Firstly, the person who was unjustly killed, is dead. Secondly, lets stop calling it "justice", when the entire point of putting the murders to death is all about revenge. Revenge is not "justice", again, because the one who actually died is dead. Its simply revenge, so lets call it what it is.

@youtubeuniversity3638

7 ай бұрын

They would sooner get penaltied themselves than admit distinction.

@spongeintheshoe

6 ай бұрын

But if they called it that, it’d be a lot harder to make it seem like a reasonable thing for society to do.

@tinfoilslacks3750

2 ай бұрын

"Revenge is not justice" Justice is literally just when revenge is sanctioned by the state

The desert rain frog is now my favorite frog.

@caffeinatedx

4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@froggyplatypus

4 жыл бұрын

Racist.

@depressedbreakfast2614

4 жыл бұрын

Mine is that frog that can get you high if you lick them

@Mrsirmansir

4 жыл бұрын

@@depressedbreakfast2614 I think that's the Colorado River toad.

"The fundamental fact to understand about lethal injection is it is a show. It is designed not to minimize the pain of people being executed, but to maximize the comfort of those who want to support the death penalty without confronting the reality of it." This is why IF we are to apply the death penalty, something like a firing squad or the guillotine actually are the best options. Not only would they minimize the pain (death is not only certain, but quick), they would also lay bare the violence and brutality of the act of execution. If that makes people too uneasy to continue the practice, ... then STOP it. If the only way you can bear to continue a practice is to look away from the realities of it, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it.

@deusvultpictures6550

4 жыл бұрын

EMBRACE THE VIOLENCE YOU PUSSIES!

@tanszism

4 жыл бұрын

The guillotine isn't a good way. Decapitation was tested on rats, and brain activity continued for a few seconds. This would mean that you would still have thoughts after being decapitated, which isn't exactly humane. Firing squad, also a bit fucked. The best is crushing their brain stem, like you would with cattle. It ends brain activity in an instant

@orioneblanco477

4 жыл бұрын

@@tanszism A few seconds of pain is infinitely more humane than 40 minutes of it.

@orioneblanco477

4 жыл бұрын

@@tanszism A shot to the back of the head also ends brain activity in an instant.

@maxmustermann-zx9yq

4 жыл бұрын

@@tanszism the whole point of the first comment is that executions shouldnt be humain

When the interviewer was like 'were yo involved in any of these researches ', I as a paraveterinary student, knew pretty much all those drugs. Most of which were MUCH BETTER options than Midazolam.

The harshest truth is said in the funniest way! Brilliant!

last week: chitaan this week: lethal injections 🤠🤙

@rcr257

5 жыл бұрын

what about sad yeehaw

@ewestner

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you could tell last week that this week was going to be something serious, but at least John Oliver can put a humorous, if disturbing, spin on it.

@reflex6907

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Will-jk6nw

5 жыл бұрын

That Chitaan episode though

@Wintermute01001

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly why I love this show

"Papa needs a new pair of Jesus's!" This is one of those sentences that could only come from John Oliver.

@joshdemay9130

4 жыл бұрын

Reverse cow-mom too

Penn and Teller covered this topic in there Bullshit! series in 2006. They've discovered that lethal injection was never designed to provide comfort to those being executed. But, rather make the people performing the execution feel less guilty.

The senator Lyn Hutchings is the political version of the villain from the movie unbreakable, "so many victims to find you".😂

I watched this with my mom... Thanks John 😕

@AdamBechtol

5 жыл бұрын

😝

@freddys.8558

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Iason29

5 жыл бұрын

@John O Dude..

@jasonm.3933

5 жыл бұрын

John O he did, despite the fact they don’t have much chemistry.

@midfielderftw

5 жыл бұрын

Did you break your arm?

I wrote a college paper on this about a year ago and it was one of the most eye-opening things I've researched. The ineffectiveness, failure rate, and cost were mind-blowing when I first saw the stats.

@patdan123

4 жыл бұрын

Medical student ?

@denebkaitos7511

4 жыл бұрын

@@patdan123 Not at the moment, but I'm hoping to be able to get into a med school when I'm done with college.

@patdan123

4 жыл бұрын

@@denebkaitos7511 good on ya. I'm a third year in though. Good luck

@denebkaitos7511

4 жыл бұрын

@@patdan123 Thanks and good luck to you too.

@deusvultpictures6550

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, lethal injection is a bad way to do it. Put them in front of a firing squad or under a guillotine - a bit messier but no chance of botching it.

To those wondering that website is still up.

What an intro throwaway. Gold.

"This desert rain frog - it sounds like a dog's toy" - my dog immediately looks up to see where the squeaking comes from :D

@r3m221

5 жыл бұрын

*squeaks in anger* STOP CALLING ME CUTE REEEEEEEEE I MAD

@johnbidochka2795

5 жыл бұрын

What a frog!

@missjen9299

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@gretchenbaker7435

5 жыл бұрын

My cat is still looking for that frog

@neuralmute

5 жыл бұрын

@@gretchenbaker7435 So is mine! I can hear her, scratching and sniffing away under the bed... XD

I was honestly really sad they didnt talk about the desert rain frog 😭

@kvikram19

5 жыл бұрын

Reading the title I initially thought he was going to talk about how its venom was used for lethal injections.

@pabloorozco300

5 жыл бұрын

100th

@zoekelly9949

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I had to look it up after. Too cute not to watch a video on.

@Vaprous

5 жыл бұрын

Here is five minutes of a desert rain frog making adorable war cries as a consolation prize. kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6t_w81mopqam5s.html

@orenthalsimpson

5 жыл бұрын

Technically they did

Also, technically, the best birthday ever.

Awesome. Great last line.

that was a LOT of leadup for that closing joke

@frocco7125

5 жыл бұрын

But it payed of.

@madferit1987

5 жыл бұрын

Worth it

@jubabutler

5 жыл бұрын

Worth

@gf1917

5 жыл бұрын

Great writing. Probably the best one this year so far.

@iwrestledabear1s

5 жыл бұрын

One of those things that I should have seen coming but didn't. And it made it that much better. It hit me right as John said "Then I guess you're arguing...."

Thank you, to the whole crew, for making a show that tackled this topic, and for being brutally honest along the way.

@GangsterGumbo

5 жыл бұрын

Is taking someone off the street and locking them in a cage for years against their will wrong? Yes? Well then, we'd better not lock someone who locked someone in a cage in a cage.

@TacticsFanatic

5 жыл бұрын

...Except, of course, that they weren't honest. They omitted certain information that made their claims problematic. They didn't mention that the shift in what drugs are used in lethal injection drugs has been because of boycotts and public pressure put on manufacturers of drugs to get them to stop (See www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/27/supreme-court-death-penalty-case-focuses-on-lethal-injection-drug). They also overstate what the 4% study they quoted actually did, which was come up with a way to "estimate" what the innocent rate might be - specifically, their premise is "Because some people sentenced to death are exonerated on appeal BEFORE execution, there MUST be people who are are innocent but not exonerated." They make this as their premise but then dismiss the fact that NONE of the inmates in their sample were exonerated post-execution. See www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230 for the study and check it out for yourself. Don't kid yourself. This is a comedy show plugging a view they think the majority of their audience wants to hear. You can be entertained, that's fine, and some of the points they make are valid... but don't think watching a comedy show will give you an honest understanding of an issue.

@crazywhales9874

5 жыл бұрын

@@TacticsFanatic Fair point. The study didn't say any innocent people had been executed. But I would argue that the fact that innocent people had still been sentenced to death (even if they didn't actually die) is frightful.

Watching this in 2021 from Australia is just as wild as.. I'm a nurse and THE lack of knowledge associated with lethal injection there is horrifying.

hell i have lots of surgeries in my life, and even the anesthesia they give you sometimes feels like fire burning into your wrist it is one of worst pains right before they knock you out. and this is guy who has hundreds of hours of surgeries i know pain

I am so thankful for these uploads on youtube.

@LOSTGAM3R

5 жыл бұрын

Epic! I just gifted you some reddit gold!

At 6:59. It is obviously Zootopia. They had Shakira.

@111cvb111

5 жыл бұрын

Judy Hopps, shortstack. They both have great hips though, Shakira just asked the artists to make her character with bigger hips.

@chocolate_kitty

5 жыл бұрын

And the dancing leopards in Speedos!

@enricothiemann2340

5 жыл бұрын

yaeh, i am kind of dissapointed by john Oliver, not seeing the obviously answer to that question o.O

@edwardwood6532

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. How does Monsters Inc have sexier CGI characters?

@AruShinichi

5 жыл бұрын

I'm disappointed that we didn't get Sharkira.

Oh my god me and my dad literally had an unprompted conversation about how if we were to be exicuted we'd rather have the guillotine than injection

If we can use hydraulic presses to process huge pieces of metal at a highly capitalistic rate I'm pretty sure we can lob some heads off in many pieces pretty efficiently and humanely. Might not be pretty, but very humanely.

OMG, the squeaking frog was beyond adorable!!

@bsr232

5 жыл бұрын

Ya the rest of the video ain’t be like that man sorry

@HeilRay

5 жыл бұрын

Squeaky Pepe the frog.

@rain.enthusiast

5 жыл бұрын

Honey, you got a big storm comin

@thomasdowney4390

5 жыл бұрын

Maureen Lippincott I know!

@Rocketboy1313

5 жыл бұрын

+

To paraphrase Victor Hugo: "To pass an irreversible sentence it would take an infallible justice system."

@detectiveduck6608

5 жыл бұрын

Is that the batman villian?

@1000niggawatt

5 жыл бұрын

this is the one and only argument here. i don't care if murderer dies paralyzed in intense agony. i do care if an innocent man dies.

@MaiAolei

5 жыл бұрын

@@detectiveduck6608 No, he is the author of Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris (the basis for the Hunchback of Notre Dame)

@nasekiller

5 жыл бұрын

Most sentences are irreversible, you cant give back the years an innocent person has spent in prison.

@abelkommie

5 жыл бұрын

@TheWin200000 you can compensate for it though

Watching this by sheer coincidence after hearing about Prince Phillip's death.

THAT is what I'd call one of the Longest waits for a budum tss I've ever had