Aug. 12, 2026
Triple Execution Day Part 1: Tennessee To Execute Anthony Darrell Hines, “The Maid Murderer”
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RSS Feed Thursday, August 13th is set to become a historic day for inmates on death row. A total of three men will be put to death in three separate states for their crimes. First up, is Anthony Darrel Hines, who was convicted for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins, a hotel maid working just outside of Nashville. Hines raped and stabbed Jenkins and although he turned himself into police, he maintains his innocence. The Governor of Tennessee has already rejected Hines’ request for clemency, saying after thoroughly reviewing the case, he does not plan to intervene.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, August twelfth. Thursday August thirteenth is going to be an extraordinary day in the United States where we have three states with planned executions, one of them happening in Tennessee, where Anthony Darryl Hines is scheduled to die by lethal injection. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ we are previewing. I guess Robes, these executions extraordinary to have three on the same day. This would be Tennessee's first of the year. We'll get into why Tennessee is going to be focused on a lot this year in terms of executions. But this is Anthony Darryl Hines and Robes. This is another one. I don't know why. It feels weird for the executions to be in the morning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is going to take place. It just feels like this is something that should happen in the evening.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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Speaker 2: I also share that as well, but to have it at ten am, it just feels like, Wow, that must have been a sleepless night because you wake up knowing it's your last morning and then you go straight to the death chamber. It I don't know, there is something that feels off about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is one, this is one of two that are actually going to happen in the morning time. Again, three executions happening. Please help me, Rose, I'm going to forget the states Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Bklahoma.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got it.
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Speaker 1: What are the two that are in the morning? Please help me. I'm soso so so so sorry.
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Speaker 2: I believes it's Oklahoma and Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be the morning one. So they're actually supposed to happen at the same time, ten o'clock Central time. So this is one of them. Anthony Darryl Hines whose crime happened Ropes. He's been on death row since the mid eighties. Actually that goes forty years.
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Speaker 3: Forty years since his crime.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do with that? Rogues? Okay, that's fine. We're hope to get it right all the time, and they are allowed the time for their appeals. But what is the what is the we say it all the time, what is the victim's family? It was forty years justice.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the victim's family has been incredibly frustrated and has talked about and asked why it's taken so long, and interestingly enough, because it's taken forty years. Part of the arguments his attorneys have made to try and stop the execution or get a stay of execution is that because of his advanced age now, because he suffered strokes in December of last year and January of this year that left him partially paralyzed, his age, his medical condition, they are claiming, will increase the likelihood of complications while you've got medical teams trying to find an IV to kill him.
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Speaker 3: So they're actually using the fact that he's aged and he's had.
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Speaker 2: Medical issues because he's been on death row for four decades.
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Speaker 1: So what you're saying is Yoah should have executed him twenty five years ago when he was healthy.
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Speaker 3: Kind of what they're saying, what is he not?
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Speaker 1: He's not quite seventy now I believe he's sixty six. Okay, he's not quite seventy. But yes, yeah, you get to that age rose, I assume you're not that active, assume you're not eating the best meals, whatever. Yes, they're going to have health problems for them, and we've seen this plenty of times. Say well, he's too old to execute Now, what does justice look like for a family who was told forty years ago that justice for you is going to be for the want for the guy who murdered your mom, your sister, your for him to be executed, but we're not going to carry that punishment out for forty years.
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Speaker 2: Look, her children have been outspoken. They talk about what a wonderful mom she was, what a wonderful grandmother she was, and the fact that she was literally working at this motel because she wanted to stay busy, she wanted to stay active. Her sister also worked at the motel, so she got to spend some time with family while she was at work. But this was a job she was actually enjoying because her kids had grown, she had been the mom, she was an empty nester, and she was literally looking to stay active, stay busy. It's incredibly sad.
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Speaker 1: And it's sad that she ran into this guy, Anthony Darryl Hines, who was passing through again. This is March of nineteen eighty five. He checked into a motel in Kingston, Springstennessee. This is not too far outside of Nashville. And with that is where Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins was working as a hotel maid. As we mentioned now, her body eventually was found in a hotel room wrapped in sheets. She had been raped and stabbed numerous times, and in delicate places.
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Speaker 2: She was stabbed in the vagina. You can actually go ahead and say it because when you read that part of this story, this wasn't about someone who it was a crime of opportunity where look he ended up.
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Speaker 3: We could get into the details about.
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Speaker 2: How they were able to trace him back to her, but basically, he stole a bunch of cash. She was in charge of a bag of money, so to speak, to have change for customers. She was left in charge of the motel by the motel manager. And for that reason she became vulnerable because here's a guy who it was a crime of opportunity. Okay, fine, but then why did he rape her? Why did he stab her in the vagina? That speaks to a whole other level of evil.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that detail, and again I don't know why I for the sake of what skipped over that detail, but robes that one is a very significant one in terms of understanding what this crime was. And this is a guy that a family has been waiting forty years for justice. That's not okay. If we're gonna have it, use it. I am not a proponent, but if we're gonna have it, use it. Don't make the family of this woman sit around for forty years. How many moms not probably still not around. I'm just guessing. But ropes the family members.
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Speaker 3: Her children are though, and her grandchildren are.
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Speaker 1: This is to make them wait. This time is just We've talked about this in numerous times the aftermath of this crime, and Rode you mentioned how he kind of gave it away and he was tracked down. Is because he was only there passing through because of the charity of other family members who had to pay for his bus ticket and his give him some money to get around, and all of a sudden he shows up later to family members with a bag of cash.
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Speaker 3: In her car.
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Speaker 2: In her vehicle, He's got a bag of cash. Suddenly he can afford things. And yes, that was suspicious to the other family members. He also had a blood stained shirt, I believe, and he had some explanation as to what it was, but truly all the evidence pointed directly at him.
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Speaker 1: Now, he did come up with some IMMI he had whatever a story I should say, and that the man who actually found the body is the one that's responsible. And he only had the keys to her car for whatever other reason. It was nothing nefarious. It wasn't him that da da da dada. He was found guilty. I think, didn't he have a re sentencing? Didn't he? I think he Actually this is the guy. He gained the right to a re sentencing, and then they still resentenced him to death row again as well. So again they've gone through all this. The governor we are not expecting, wrote he should not be waiting on that phone to ring.
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Speaker 2: The Governor has made it clear that he thoroughly reviewed all of the details in this case. Because, by the way, Darryl Hines has maintained his innocence for forty years, he has never admitted to this crime.
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Speaker 3: He has never confessed to this crime.
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Speaker 2: So therefore he has never apologized for the crime. And so yes, Governor Bill Lee said, I have thoroughly examined this case and I will not be intervening. So he's made it very clear that that's not going to be the reason why this execution would be called off.
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Speaker 1: So one of the reasons, but Rodes, you mentioned the arguments they were trying to make and I guess it's still possible. As of this recording, there has not been a Supreme Court response, so I guess they could have the Supreme Court. Possibly not likely. But one of the other arguments they're making ropes is yes, you just talked about his advanced age and this could be painful. But the other thing is ropes, there was another execution planned in Tennessee didn't go well, and that dude got got a reprieve.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and so stunning one journeys are actually yes, using the botched attempted execution. This was in May of Tony Carruthers as part of their reasoning why they would like the State of Tennessee to call off the execution for their client, Anthony Darryl Hines. And yes, they described what happened to Tony Carruthers. As the execution team they were trying to find that vein for a central line. They left the inmate in what one witness called a bloody mess. And so they're really in and I don't know, maybe that really did happen, but we also know how attorneys are and they used this phrase they said it would be a grotesque spectacle for Tennessee to move forward with the execution of Daryl Hines, given his debilitated medical condition and the many unanswered questions following the botched execution attempt.
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Speaker 3: Of Tony Caruthers. So they are absolutely using that they want to know.
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Speaker 2: Is the same doctor going to be applying this ivy, is the same medical team going to be using is going to be around their client? But I actually think when you're hearing all of these questions and queries and concern for Anthony Darryl Hines, that's kind of why I I wanted to actually make sure we pointed out the severity of his crime against his victim, including stabbing her in the vagina.
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Speaker 1: He's asking for mercy exactly. That's we're supposed to Rodes. We're supposed to be better than he is, aren't we aren't we? Really, we're supposed to be better than he is, and we're supposed to grant something to him that he didn't grant to that woman. However, I would like to before I placed a vote, I would talk to his family first. Where are they on this?
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Speaker 2: Her family, well, Melissa Jenkins just gave an interview, that is her daughter, and she said, justice will be served by this execution, but closure doesn't exist for her or her family because most of the focus has been placed on the person convicted minting the crime rather than the victim.
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Speaker 1: Her mother good, yeah, yeah, I mean what mercy for him here? I am still like, we're supposed to be better and let's give him mercy. Ro the focus here? What is the point of all of this? What's the reason we're here is because that woman was butchered in a hotel room while he was just trying to do a job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for a back of cash and for a car that eventually broke down that he basically just walked away from, but it led police to him.
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Speaker 3: And now, forty.
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Speaker 2: Years after the crime, he will have his day in that death chamber, well his morning actually ten am Central time tomorrow. He will ultimately pay for his crime, and we'll robes.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people right now, at least are focused on this execution. The state of Tennessee is also putting a lot of focus on another execution that's coming up next month. Stay here, we'll explain the history that could be made in Tennessee next month.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. We are talking about the planned execution one of three that will happen on Thursday, August thirteenth, or at least I should say that are set to happen, because obviously there could always be a last minute situation.
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Speaker 3: It happened in.
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Speaker 2: The state of Tennessee just a few months ago, back in May, so you never know until it actually happens and there are no issues or problems or no reprieves granted by the Supreme Court. But Anthony Darryl Hines is set to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow at ten am Central time. Now, normally we don't get the final meal or any sort of details about what leads up to.
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Speaker 3: The execution until after the execution.
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Speaker 2: But because I guess this one's in the morning, we're already learning about a final meal that is likely taking place around the time recording this today.
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Speaker 1: I don't know when they Yeah, when they actually serve this to him. I assume he won't be getting Oh will he being getting breakfast? I don't know when the cutoff is, but this is always fascinating but always worth am engine robes with the final meal, it's his request.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know how you eat when you know what's your last meal, and certainly breakfast when the execution scheduled for ten am.
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Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: But his final meal is this fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, coal slaw, corn fries, biscuits, a chicken sandwich, chocolate chip cake, and a sweet tea. So he apparently did not lose his appetite and is from the South. Yes, that is a good Southern meal for sure.
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Speaker 1: Sweet tea through that and sweetweet.
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Speaker 3: Tea is just yes. To completely verify that this was happening in Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: For sure, But this is going to be the first execution, or will be if he goes through the first execution of the year in Tennessee. It wasn't supposed to be. There was another schedule that we mentioned. It was botched that guy Coruther has got a repriat for a year after that one. But the next one Rodes happening next month is going to be a history making. We're going to see something there potentially that we haven't seen in Tennessee in two hundred years and it's just rare in this country.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Krista Pike, she is scheduled to undergo lethal injection. It's scheduled right now to take place on September thirtieth, and she would be the first woman to be executed in the state of Tennessee in two centuries, two hundred plus years. And yes, her gender obviously is the main distinction, but she also has extensive history, documented history of sexual trauma and health conditions. So yes, there are a lot of reasons why the state Supreme Court, Tennessee Supreme Court is now investigating whether the execution will violate.
00:14:55
Speaker 3: Her Eighth Amendment rights.
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Speaker 2: We've seen this a lot from other inmates, basically which protect against and unusual punishment.
00:15:02
Speaker 3: So there is actually there has.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: Been a hearing going on this week, a multi day hearing trying to figure out how to move forward. So look, this is going to be a spectacle and this is going to be historic.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and see if it happens.
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Speaker 1: If it happens, and as we are talking nowes, I don't know how this is going to go this hearing that's happening. Yeah, they're having a hearing this week trying to decide this robes, if this is going to go forward, or what method they could possibly use.
00:15:38
Speaker 3: She's asking, well, she's actually pitching.
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Speaker 2: To have an alternate way of dying because of what I just mentioned. The lethal injection she is claiming is going to cause severe pain and suffering. So one of the options she has suggested, or her legal team has suggested to the state of ten See, is that she would like to hang. She would like to actually die by hanging.
00:16:06
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, can we pull that off? This is not seventeen ninety. You can't just go find a tree and toss a rope over it. That's not how things work. You have to do this in the death chamber and things that are approved. Obviously, they know hanging is not an option. It's not an improved method in that state.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the warden actually testified this week in that hearing, he said, we don't have the equipment to conduct that execution. It's not approved by Tennessee law, and just the logistics we wouldn't be able to support them.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So you want to keep pitching things that they can't do.
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Speaker 2: I mean that has been a tactic for other inmates death row inmates, and it hasn't worked.
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Speaker 1: I would like to be y'all got a baseball bat. I would just like somebody to whack me in the head. How about a mob execution? How about I mean, what are they going to keep suggesting robes, lethalin jet I get it, I understand, And I said this to you. We were talking about this one in particular earlier.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 1: People really want to live.
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Speaker 2: It is remarkable, even on death row, even with no hope of ever getting out of prison ever again, they still don't want to die. And that is.
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Speaker 3: Something we have seen.
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Speaker 2: It is exceptionally rare that an inmate and every now and again you get one. One of them is actually scheduled to die tomorrow. He actually expedited his own his own execution because he stopped any appeals from happening. He told his lawyers not to try and fight it. And he is now. His crime was committed in twenty twenty one. He's going to die tomorrow by lethal injection.
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Speaker 1: We say that wrote but even the crime was in twenty twenty one, he's being executed in twenty twenty six. He was only convicted in twenty twenty four. That's like the fast track, two years from conviction to execution. A lot of folks will tell you that's the way it should go. That so if you're gonna use the death penalty that you get your want automatic appeal, maybe you get one more. I don't know, Robes, but it is stunning. We just don't see that today. And the only way that happens is because the inmate is in control the schedule.
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Speaker 2: And Christi Gale Pike, by the way, her crime she was convicted in nineteen ninety six. The crime was in ninety five. But if you think about that, she has been on death row for thirty years. Correct, I'm so bad with math. Yes, thirty years. So that just shows she.
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Speaker 3: Still wants to live.
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Speaker 2: She's been on death row for three decades and she is desperately trying to fight for her life.
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Speaker 3: Right now.
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Speaker 2: We shall see about that, but it does look like Anthony Daryl Hines will meet his maker tomorrow morning in Tennessee. Will obviously follow what happens, but wanted to put this on your radar because it is a historic day in the United States when it comes to executions tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: And with that everyone I made meet Robot alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, August twelfth. Thursday August thirteenth is going to be an extraordinary day in the United States where we have three states with planned executions, one of them happening in Tennessee, where Anthony Darryl Hines is scheduled to die by lethal injection. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ we are previewing. I guess Robes, these executions extraordinary to have three on the same day. This would be Tennessee's first of the year. We'll get into why Tennessee is going to be focused on a lot this year in terms of executions. But this is Anthony Darryl Hines and Robes. This is another one. I don't know why. It feels weird for the executions to be in the morning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is going to take place. It just feels like this is something that should happen in the evening.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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Speaker 2: I also share that as well, but to have it at ten am, it just feels like, Wow, that must have been a sleepless night because you wake up knowing it's your last morning and then you go straight to the death chamber. It I don't know, there is something that feels off about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is one, this is one of two that are actually going to happen in the morning time. Again, three executions happening. Please help me, Rose, I'm going to forget the states Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Bklahoma.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got it.
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Speaker 1: What are the two that are in the morning? Please help me. I'm soso so so so sorry.
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Speaker 2: I believes it's Oklahoma and Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be the morning one. So they're actually supposed to happen at the same time, ten o'clock Central time. So this is one of them. Anthony Darryl Hines whose crime happened Ropes. He's been on death row since the mid eighties. Actually that goes forty years.
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Speaker 3: Forty years since his crime.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do with that? Rogues? Okay, that's fine. We're hope to get it right all the time, and they are allowed the time for their appeals. But what is the what is the we say it all the time, what is the victim's family? It was forty years justice.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the victim's family has been incredibly frustrated and has talked about and asked why it's taken so long, and interestingly enough, because it's taken forty years. Part of the arguments his attorneys have made to try and stop the execution or get a stay of execution is that because of his advanced age now, because he suffered strokes in December of last year and January of this year that left him partially paralyzed, his age, his medical condition, they are claiming, will increase the likelihood of complications while you've got medical teams trying to find an IV to kill him.
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Speaker 3: So they're actually using the fact that he's aged and he's had.
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Speaker 2: Medical issues because he's been on death row for four decades.
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Speaker 1: So what you're saying is Yoah should have executed him twenty five years ago when he was healthy.
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Speaker 3: Kind of what they're saying, what is he not?
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Speaker 1: He's not quite seventy now I believe he's sixty six. Okay, he's not quite seventy. But yes, yeah, you get to that age rose, I assume you're not that active, assume you're not eating the best meals, whatever. Yes, they're going to have health problems for them, and we've seen this plenty of times. Say well, he's too old to execute Now, what does justice look like for a family who was told forty years ago that justice for you is going to be for the want for the guy who murdered your mom, your sister, your for him to be executed, but we're not going to carry that punishment out for forty years.
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Speaker 2: Look, her children have been outspoken. They talk about what a wonderful mom she was, what a wonderful grandmother she was, and the fact that she was literally working at this motel because she wanted to stay busy, she wanted to stay active. Her sister also worked at the motel, so she got to spend some time with family while she was at work. But this was a job she was actually enjoying because her kids had grown, she had been the mom, she was an empty nester, and she was literally looking to stay active, stay busy. It's incredibly sad.
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Speaker 1: And it's sad that she ran into this guy, Anthony Darryl Hines, who was passing through again. This is March of nineteen eighty five. He checked into a motel in Kingston, Springstennessee. This is not too far outside of Nashville. And with that is where Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins was working as a hotel maid. As we mentioned now, her body eventually was found in a hotel room wrapped in sheets. She had been raped and stabbed numerous times, and in delicate places.
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Speaker 2: She was stabbed in the vagina. You can actually go ahead and say it because when you read that part of this story, this wasn't about someone who it was a crime of opportunity where look he ended up.
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Speaker 3: We could get into the details about.
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Speaker 2: How they were able to trace him back to her, but basically, he stole a bunch of cash. She was in charge of a bag of money, so to speak, to have change for customers. She was left in charge of the motel by the motel manager. And for that reason she became vulnerable because here's a guy who it was a crime of opportunity. Okay, fine, but then why did he rape her? Why did he stab her in the vagina? That speaks to a whole other level of evil.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that detail, and again I don't know why I for the sake of what skipped over that detail, but robes that one is a very significant one in terms of understanding what this crime was. And this is a guy that a family has been waiting forty years for justice. That's not okay. If we're gonna have it, use it. I am not a proponent, but if we're gonna have it, use it. Don't make the family of this woman sit around for forty years. How many moms not probably still not around. I'm just guessing. But ropes the family members.
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Speaker 3: Her children are though, and her grandchildren are.
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Speaker 1: This is to make them wait. This time is just We've talked about this in numerous times the aftermath of this crime, and Rode you mentioned how he kind of gave it away and he was tracked down. Is because he was only there passing through because of the charity of other family members who had to pay for his bus ticket and his give him some money to get around, and all of a sudden he shows up later to family members with a bag of cash.
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Speaker 3: In her car.
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Speaker 2: In her vehicle, He's got a bag of cash. Suddenly he can afford things. And yes, that was suspicious to the other family members. He also had a blood stained shirt, I believe, and he had some explanation as to what it was, but truly all the evidence pointed directly at him.
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Speaker 1: Now, he did come up with some IMMI he had whatever a story I should say, and that the man who actually found the body is the one that's responsible. And he only had the keys to her car for whatever other reason. It was nothing nefarious. It wasn't him that da da da dada. He was found guilty. I think, didn't he have a re sentencing? Didn't he? I think he Actually this is the guy. He gained the right to a re sentencing, and then they still resentenced him to death row again as well. So again they've gone through all this. The governor we are not expecting, wrote he should not be waiting on that phone to ring.
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Speaker 2: The Governor has made it clear that he thoroughly reviewed all of the details in this case. Because, by the way, Darryl Hines has maintained his innocence for forty years, he has never admitted to this crime.
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Speaker 3: He has never confessed to this crime.
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Speaker 2: So therefore he has never apologized for the crime. And so yes, Governor Bill Lee said, I have thoroughly examined this case and I will not be intervening. So he's made it very clear that that's not going to be the reason why this execution would be called off.
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Speaker 1: So one of the reasons, but Rodes, you mentioned the arguments they were trying to make and I guess it's still possible. As of this recording, there has not been a Supreme Court response, so I guess they could have the Supreme Court. Possibly not likely. But one of the other arguments they're making ropes is yes, you just talked about his advanced age and this could be painful. But the other thing is ropes, there was another execution planned in Tennessee didn't go well, and that dude got got a reprieve.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and so stunning one journeys are actually yes, using the botched attempted execution. This was in May of Tony Carruthers as part of their reasoning why they would like the State of Tennessee to call off the execution for their client, Anthony Darryl Hines. And yes, they described what happened to Tony Carruthers. As the execution team they were trying to find that vein for a central line. They left the inmate in what one witness called a bloody mess. And so they're really in and I don't know, maybe that really did happen, but we also know how attorneys are and they used this phrase they said it would be a grotesque spectacle for Tennessee to move forward with the execution of Daryl Hines, given his debilitated medical condition and the many unanswered questions following the botched execution attempt.
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Speaker 3: Of Tony Caruthers. So they are absolutely using that they want to know.
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Speaker 2: Is the same doctor going to be applying this ivy, is the same medical team going to be using is going to be around their client? But I actually think when you're hearing all of these questions and queries and concern for Anthony Darryl Hines, that's kind of why I I wanted to actually make sure we pointed out the severity of his crime against his victim, including stabbing her in the vagina.
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Speaker 1: He's asking for mercy exactly. That's we're supposed to Rodes. We're supposed to be better than he is, aren't we aren't we? Really, we're supposed to be better than he is, and we're supposed to grant something to him that he didn't grant to that woman. However, I would like to before I placed a vote, I would talk to his family first. Where are they on this?
00:10:33
Speaker 2: Her family, well, Melissa Jenkins just gave an interview, that is her daughter, and she said, justice will be served by this execution, but closure doesn't exist for her or her family because most of the focus has been placed on the person convicted minting the crime rather than the victim.
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Speaker 1: Her mother good, yeah, yeah, I mean what mercy for him here? I am still like, we're supposed to be better and let's give him mercy. Ro the focus here? What is the point of all of this? What's the reason we're here is because that woman was butchered in a hotel room while he was just trying to do a job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for a back of cash and for a car that eventually broke down that he basically just walked away from, but it led police to him.
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Speaker 3: And now, forty.
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Speaker 2: Years after the crime, he will have his day in that death chamber, well his morning actually ten am Central time tomorrow. He will ultimately pay for his crime, and we'll robes.
00:11:38
Speaker 1: A lot of people right now, at least are focused on this execution. The state of Tennessee is also putting a lot of focus on another execution that's coming up next month. Stay here, we'll explain the history that could be made in Tennessee next month.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. We are talking about the planned execution one of three that will happen on Thursday, August thirteenth, or at least I should say that are set to happen, because obviously there could always be a last minute situation.
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Speaker 3: It happened in.
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Speaker 2: The state of Tennessee just a few months ago, back in May, so you never know until it actually happens and there are no issues or problems or no reprieves granted by the Supreme Court. But Anthony Darryl Hines is set to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow at ten am Central time. Now, normally we don't get the final meal or any sort of details about what leads up to.
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Speaker 3: The execution until after the execution.
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Speaker 2: But because I guess this one's in the morning, we're already learning about a final meal that is likely taking place around the time recording this today.
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Speaker 1: I don't know when they Yeah, when they actually serve this to him. I assume he won't be getting Oh will he being getting breakfast? I don't know when the cutoff is, but this is always fascinating but always worth am engine robes with the final meal, it's his request.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know how you eat when you know what's your last meal, and certainly breakfast when the execution scheduled for ten am.
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Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: But his final meal is this fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, coal slaw, corn fries, biscuits, a chicken sandwich, chocolate chip cake, and a sweet tea. So he apparently did not lose his appetite and is from the South. Yes, that is a good Southern meal for sure.
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Speaker 1: Sweet tea through that and sweetweet.
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Speaker 3: Tea is just yes. To completely verify that this was happening in Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: For sure, But this is going to be the first execution, or will be if he goes through the first execution of the year in Tennessee. It wasn't supposed to be. There was another schedule that we mentioned. It was botched that guy Coruther has got a repriat for a year after that one. But the next one Rodes happening next month is going to be a history making. We're going to see something there potentially that we haven't seen in Tennessee in two hundred years and it's just rare in this country.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Krista Pike, she is scheduled to undergo lethal injection. It's scheduled right now to take place on September thirtieth, and she would be the first woman to be executed in the state of Tennessee in two centuries, two hundred plus years. And yes, her gender obviously is the main distinction, but she also has extensive history, documented history of sexual trauma and health conditions. So yes, there are a lot of reasons why the state Supreme Court, Tennessee Supreme Court is now investigating whether the execution will violate.
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Speaker 3: Her Eighth Amendment rights.
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Speaker 2: We've seen this a lot from other inmates, basically which protect against and unusual punishment.
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Speaker 3: So there is actually there has.
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Speaker 2: Been a hearing going on this week, a multi day hearing trying to figure out how to move forward. So look, this is going to be a spectacle and this is going to be historic.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and see if it happens.
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Speaker 1: If it happens, and as we are talking nowes, I don't know how this is going to go this hearing that's happening. Yeah, they're having a hearing this week trying to decide this robes, if this is going to go forward, or what method they could possibly use.
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Speaker 3: She's asking, well, she's actually pitching.
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Speaker 2: To have an alternate way of dying because of what I just mentioned. The lethal injection she is claiming is going to cause severe pain and suffering. So one of the options she has suggested, or her legal team has suggested to the state of ten See, is that she would like to hang. She would like to actually die by hanging.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, can we pull that off? This is not seventeen ninety. You can't just go find a tree and toss a rope over it. That's not how things work. You have to do this in the death chamber and things that are approved. Obviously, they know hanging is not an option. It's not an improved method in that state.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the warden actually testified this week in that hearing, he said, we don't have the equipment to conduct that execution. It's not approved by Tennessee law, and just the logistics we wouldn't be able to support them.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So you want to keep pitching things that they can't do.
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Speaker 2: I mean that has been a tactic for other inmates death row inmates, and it hasn't worked.
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Speaker 1: I would like to be y'all got a baseball bat. I would just like somebody to whack me in the head. How about a mob execution? How about I mean, what are they going to keep suggesting robes, lethalin jet I get it, I understand, And I said this to you. We were talking about this one in particular earlier.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 1: People really want to live.
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Speaker 2: It is remarkable, even on death row, even with no hope of ever getting out of prison ever again, they still don't want to die. And that is.
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Speaker 3: Something we have seen.
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Speaker 2: It is exceptionally rare that an inmate and every now and again you get one. One of them is actually scheduled to die tomorrow. He actually expedited his own his own execution because he stopped any appeals from happening. He told his lawyers not to try and fight it. And he is now. His crime was committed in twenty twenty one. He's going to die tomorrow by lethal injection.
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Speaker 1: We say that wrote but even the crime was in twenty twenty one, he's being executed in twenty twenty six. He was only convicted in twenty twenty four. That's like the fast track, two years from conviction to execution. A lot of folks will tell you that's the way it should go. That so if you're gonna use the death penalty that you get your want automatic appeal, maybe you get one more. I don't know, Robes, but it is stunning. We just don't see that today. And the only way that happens is because the inmate is in control the schedule.
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Speaker 2: And Christi Gale Pike, by the way, her crime she was convicted in nineteen ninety six. The crime was in ninety five. But if you think about that, she has been on death row for thirty years. Correct, I'm so bad with math. Yes, thirty years. So that just shows she.
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Speaker 3: Still wants to live.
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Speaker 2: She's been on death row for three decades and she is desperately trying to fight for her life.
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Speaker 3: Right now.
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Speaker 2: We shall see about that, but it does look like Anthony Daryl Hines will meet his maker tomorrow morning in Tennessee. Will obviously follow what happens, but wanted to put this on your radar because it is a historic day in the United States when it comes to executions tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: And with that everyone I made meet Robot alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk soon.