Clive Stafford Smith

This is what, uh, Wikipedia has to say about it: "The documentary argues against the death penalty and maintains that capital punishment is disproportionately applied to African Americans convicted of crimes against whites.

The program features attorney Clive Stafford Smith." and advocate against capital punishment.

So there was always substance in Overlord X's music, um, from the very beginning, which is really amazing.

The song was so successful, Overlord X as well as X Posse signed to Mango Street Records, and that's where we get his debut album, Weapon Is My Lyric.

It's called it torture.

Clive Stafford Smith is a longtime campaigner against the death penalty, and he's defended many people on death row in the US.

What's his reaction to Pete Hegseth's announcement?

Well, my first reaction was I thought we'd seen it all with Krista Pike ten days ago, and then this comes along.

But of course, it does encourage people around the world who wanna use execution, you know, maybe the Saudis will chop your head off in public next.

I think it's a very bad example that we're setting to the rest of the world.

That was, uh, lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.

Now as Russia steps up its attacks on Ukrainian cities, hitting power plants, bridges, schools, and as we heard yesterday, even public transport, life in the capital Kyiv is getting more dangerous by the day.

This after last Wednesday's failed execution attempt.

Have you ever heard anything like this? So what does the state of Tennessee do next? Clive Stafford-Smith is a human and civil rights lawyer.

He's acted for hundreds of people globally who face the death penalty.

He joins me now.

Thanks for your input on that.

Have a bit more tonic with it so we can talk over the coming years.

Clive Stafford-Smith, human and civil rights lawyer, has acted for people in hundreds of these cases.

Let's pick up on a couple more of your emails.

Well, you know, often, sadly, public defenders are usually inexperienced in these cases.

And it's one of the things, my friend, Clive Stafford-Smith, who was a death row lawyer, defended people on death row.

often talked about capital punishment is punishment for those that don't have the capital.

In other words, can't afford an experienced litigator.

This is where we delve into the dark market of execution drugs.

Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has presented highly detailed hypotheses regarding this supply chain.

OK, what does he think is happening?

Because states cannot buy from regulated above board suppliers, they are forced into the shadows.

Newsweek tied that possibility to her complaint at 7:34 about her arm, though nobody official has confirmed any of it.

Their statement on Wednesday night also listed degraded pentobarbital, and the human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, told Al Jazeera the drugs were probably out of date.

Tennessee keeps the source of its execution drugs secret by law, and it has not released any test results for the batch used on Pike.

Back in 2022, an outside review led by former US attorney Ed Stanton found that Tennessee's lethal injection drugs had not been properly tested for years.