The Life of David Gale

<i> Ooh.</i> 484 00:37:02,153 --> 00:37:04,280 Oh! 485 00:37:04,355 --> 00:37:08,621 Can't we just admit that the capital punishment system in this country is not working? 486 00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:12,959 We are condemning people to death based on phony expert testimony... 487 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:15,624 on junk science, on-on jail house snitches... 488 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:20,330 <i>Alan, did you know that Texas</i> <i>has the highest per capita</i> <i>incarceration rate in the world?</i> 489 00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,396 - Forty-three people that you executed... - Alan, could I... 490 00:37:23,474 --> 00:37:28,070 were represented by lawyers who were at one time disbarred or sanctioned. 491 00:37:28,145 --> 00:37:30,375 There are two men on death row right now, on this day... 492 00:37:30,448 --> 00:37:34,782 - whose lawyers fell asleep during cross-examination. - I'm not a lawyer. 493 00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:37,150 And the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that that was not... 494 00:37:37,221 --> 00:37:39,519 that was not a basis for a retrial. 495 00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:42,423 Governor, that's just a flawed, insane, crazy system. 496 00:37:42,493 --> 00:37:45,189 And a flawed system will kill innocent men. 497 00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:48,391 Okay, all right. Let him answer. 498 00:37:48,466 --> 00:37:51,094 All right, Mr. Gale, we'll play your game. Name one. 499 00:37:51,168 --> 00:37:54,763 Name one innocent man that Texas has put to death during my tenure... 500 00:37:54,839 --> 00:37:57,103 of the hundred or so executions... 501 00:37:57,174 --> 00:37:59,472 It's 131, Governor, in case you lost count. 502 00:37:59,543 --> 00:38:02,171 - Let him finish. <i>- Fine. Thank you. Whatever.</i> 503 00:38:02,246 --> 00:38:05,477 Just give me a name... I'm gonna write it down... 504 00:38:05,549 --> 00:38:08,040 <i>a man that you can prove</i> <i>was innocent...</i> 505 00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,485 - There you go. 506 00:38:10,554 --> 00:38:12,545 And I'll call a moratorium. 507 00:38:13,924 --> 00:38:16,449 Mr. Gale. 508 00:38:18,262 --> 00:38:20,787 - Are we through here, Alan? <i>- You know what?</i> <i>We're running out of time.</i> 509 00:38:20,865 --> 00:38:24,824 I'd like to thank my guests, Governor Hardin and Professor David Gale from DeathWatch. 510 00:38:24,902 --> 00:38:28,668 - Roll credits. <i>- Thank you for joining me today.</i> <i>Hope you will join me tomorrow.</i> 511 00:38:31,275 --> 00:38:33,266 <i>Your exact words were...</i> 512 00:38:33,344 --> 00:38:35,335 <i>"Just tell me when my ego's</i> <i>getting in the way of the work. "</i> 513 00:38:35,413 --> 00:38:37,643 <i>I'm telling you, your ego's</i> <i>getting in the way of the work.</i> 514 00:38:37,715 --> 00:38:39,706 I didn't wanna do this in the first place. 515 00:38:39,784 --> 00:38:43,345 You put up two seconds of protest at the thought of being on a televised debate. 516 00:38:43,421 --> 00:38:45,548 - What does that mean? - It means that DeathWatch suffers because... 517 00:38:45,623 --> 00:38:48,751 you're so anxious to finger authority, to publicly prove that David Gale... 518 00:38:48,826 --> 00:38:51,351 is so much fucking smarter than the powers that be! 519 00:38:51,429 --> 00:38:55,160 Learn to work without an audience. Try squeezing money from the donor list. 520 00:38:55,232 --> 00:38:57,223 Have you licked one single mail-out envelope? 521 00:38:57,301 --> 00:39:00,202 - Mr. Gale? - Hey, guys, the governor went that way. 522 00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:02,501 Ramirez... Austin Police. This is Officer Hasermann. 523 00:39:02,573 --> 00:39:04,598 What, is debating the governor a crime now? 524 00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:08,441 No, sir. Rape is. 525 00:39:14,018 --> 00:39:17,249 - Berlin had my bite marks. - Gale! Time's up. 526 00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:24,021 Bruises. Her clothes were ripped. My skin was found under her fingernails. 527 00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:26,962 I mean, it didn't look like anything but rape. Then she drops the charges... 528 00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:29,192 and leaves town, making it look like I was guilty... 529 00:39:29,266 --> 00:39:31,928 and she was too traumatized to face a trial. 530 00:39:32,002 --> 00:39:34,903 My wife had to read all about this while she was sitting in the airport... 531 00:39:34,972 --> 00:39:37,805 wondering where I was, why I wasn't there to pick her up. 532 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,070 It took me almost two weeks to get bailed out. 533 00:39:40,144 --> 00:39:42,135 - And the grad student Berlin? 534 00:39:42,213 --> 00:39:45,376 <i>Why do you think</i> <i>she did it?</i> 535 00:39:45,449 --> 00:39:49,408 Poke her finger at authority, show the powers that be how much smarter she was. 536 00:39:49,487 --> 00:39:52,149 Grad student's revenge. I don't really know.