Andrew Jarecki
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But why is it that, I'm a charitable person, but why is it that in Alabama, for example, there's a guy named Tafaris Johnson who was arrested for a murder a million years ago.
He's been on death row the entire time.
And the evidence against him totally fell apart.
There are a dozen people that gave him an alibi that said we were with him at this club that was across town.
He had nothing to do with this crime.
And yet โ and by the way, the DA who โ that office is the office that should prosecute that crime.
They've asked for a new trial.
They've said that they're not confident that he's guilty.
And yet the attorney general's office is continuing to try to execute him.
They're trying to kill him for something which he clearly did not do.
There's another case, a guy named Chris Barber, where there's DNA evidence that showed that somebody else committed the crime.
and the DA is trying to execute Christopher Barber.
There's this teaming where you become a part of law enforcement, and then somehow you lose your sense of
judgment or nuance your ability to decide who's guilty and who's not guilty.
And that's a really dangerous thing because... Yeah, because your career depends on you getting a win.
Which is really crazy.
Which is โ I mean it's disturbing that we haven't come up with ways to identify fairness, right?