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Death Row Inmate's Last Words After Kim K.'s Attempt to Save Him Failed

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0:00 you got to do the due diligence of being a criminal you can't just you can't just be a criminal and be like I didn't do that crime no you got to do the crime but you got to do the time to study and then a dinner [Music] rhy all right does the name Ivan canu ring a bell to anybody is that basketball say one more time Ivan Cantu Ivan can can very almost look good okay uh so this guy's a this guy was a death row inmate and he on the label or in prison yeah which one the prison oh and he recently just uh okay what that mean what's that sound he wanked himself jacked off yeah he jacking off that's

0:50 exactly what it is this means jacking off he himself or was it the government it was the government okay so he died by death penalty he died by which one you guys want to guess injection probably I'm just guessing I feel like it is yeah do they stood that one upside down actually doesn't say um but the reason why this is even remote news is because uh Kim Kardashian took to Twitter or known as Twitter uh to her 75 million plus followers or whatever and like got this guy's like story like passed her through some sister or whatever uh none or whatever and she got really moved by his story because he since 2000 when he quote unquote killed his cousin and his girlfriend during an attempt to steal cocaine marijuana and money uh he's been saying that he never killed them oh ████

1:42 that's and he's been holding on since 2000 till now 24 years he's been holding on to that innocence the entire time okay so his final words have just been shared after he was executed despite the desperate pleas from Kim Kardashian um again this guy was convicted of killing his cousin James musada and his cousin's fiance Amy Kitchen in actually 2001 uh he was just executed at the Texas State Penitentiary on Wednesday this past Wednesday um and then they go oops he didn't do it we just found out the DNA samples came back what's his last words I'll get there okay um the inmate believed that the Rival drug dealer killed his cousin in a dispute over cash oh ████ what was his last meal that's also a very important question that we're going to follow up with holy ████

2:32 hopefully it was maybe it was Papa John's I saw a whole book of people's last meals it's kind of fun to look at them that was cool we talked about that before y yeah but not now um so speaking from the execution chamber of the State Penitentiary he said I'd like to address the kitchens and moscada families I want you to know that I never killed James and Amy and if I did if I knew who did you would have been the first to know any information I would have had that would have helped to bring Justice to James and Amy I would have shared I want you all to know that I don't think that this situation here will bring you closure if it does if this is what it takes or have any reservations off in your mind then so be it this is not going to help you guys and I want you to know for me that it never occurred ████ is there is there anything

3:22 in the article that will be like yet the evidence does show he ████ killed them like cuz whenever you see these things and you look into the case obviously this fool did it you know like I never really see those things where they have that last thing where they were innocent all the way to death row and then like you got all 10 fingerprints on the weapon yeah or like there was like five appeals and they had they had three trials and all of them the jury was like yeah this fo did it so Kim Kim tweets I heard about Ivan K's case from Sister Helen pran pan I don't know and was really moved by it Ivan has always maintained his innocence claiming that the Rival drug dealer framed him for the murders there was false testimony by the state star Witnesses who later recanted their statements and evidence withheld by the prosecution that would be extremely impactful even the jurors jurors want to help now and support Ivan's appeals believing they

4:12 did not hear all the evidence at trial she continued in April 2023 a judge canceled Ivan's scheduled execution when the defense filed an appeal about false testimony and new evidence but later that year the execution was rescheduled and he set to die last Wednesday wow she said how you can help Texas now has conviction Integrity unit so she basically tweeted to all of her followers to call the prosecution office Integrity unit to get them to like stop this execution date but he just got killed damn I don't want to ask a Nick question but I'm going to do it please ask me ni question it's on brand what was uh what year was the crime committed 2001 that's not a Nick question is it that's actually a good question ni question is like what shirt was he wearing yeah what was the thread count it was 2,000 but then uh what sign is the threat

5:03 count damn so this one might actually be one of those ones secutor offices are beginning to recognize there are a lot of mistakes and convictions they encourage you to write into their integrity units about specific cases so I'm encouraging everyone to write in about the case of Ivan kantu how did how did he pass do we know like which which method did they use if it's in it's probably injection if it's here I thought they do hang well no uh this Texas yeah it was Texas I feel like all the stories cover like it takes hell a long time for them to actually kill the person on death row like I know it's been like 25 years but still Texas is quick though yeah that's what I was going to ask I wonder if Texas moves a little bit is 23 years quick I feel like it's always like 40 50 years sometimes just so they can air on the side of caution a little bit also there's like there's it's a if you just keep filing appeals like it takes longer yeah

5:55 doesn't it like if you keep it should it you know usually those things happen like right as the dates coming up anyway yeah what every story we talk about on someone death row we're always talking about a peal pushing it back or something there's always always Western culture really values like life huh but not when it's other countries but like within its own borders they try to Value it huh or like it's just weird how the laws are set up to where I think it's the reason why we do it it's it's hard to kill somebody cuz I think for other places like we like your ████ that's okay but I think for ours it's like but what if he said sh I think it's a it's like a first it's like a first world uh ideology where it's like we're above being inhumane so they try to find ways to so you don't stoop down to the same type of animalistic Revenge that they do yeah yeah but also that that's why Most

6:48 states did uh away with the death penalty because of Errors cuz they're like well what if we kill someone that didn't deserve it but then that dude was still in jail for life that's still the error right it's kind of like a you don't have much of a life after that it's just hard because like if if you're like man it's hard to tell cuz like if you were like sentenced to death and you knew you were going to be like killed then you could kind of just go to the chair saying anything you want and you probably you know if you're if you know you're going to go out you might as well have a sick ass quote yeah instead saying you didn't do it it's pretty sick I don't know it doesn't i' I've just seen I used to be obsessed with like looking at these like death row cases where like the person didn't do or like claims they didn't do it and a lot of the time they're just like nuts and

7:38 it's like okay yeah you you did do it but then like there's times like you know like hurricane the dude the boxer guy that like went to uh jail for something he didn't do and then um the movie like totally ████ makes it look like he was so innocent but then when you look at the actual like case you can totally see why people would think he did do it even though he was found not guilty they never never found the real killers it's like sometimes you think some of these people really did do it that got exonerated too there's that error there's the error of like oh he didn't do it and then he's out and then you go wait a second wait a minute OJ get back here I mean I think it also takes a lot for you know somebody like kmk if you have a platform you know you got like 70 something million followers your reputation is on you better not say something unless you ████ believe it or you've done research or you whatever you know what I mean because you're

8:28 talking about one somebody's full-on life and then two a life of somebody who is accused of murder yeah but that's always the right thing to do PR wise but isn't she also in process of being a lawyer as well she is maybe she was studying this case and goes this seems wrong I think that's her thing right is like the Innocence Project stuff where she she's looking into these cases so hey man I feel like if she's talking like you said if she's putting your reputation on the line for it she must be like n this dude deserves to be free unless she's a s█████ lawyer La did you see your sex tape though was pretty good it was pretty ████ good okay yeah yeah you're right interesting things that seems to happen a lot with with these uh cases is that like at least I've seen is that sometimes they have a suspect for a crime and let's say the police the detectives all ████

9:18 know this guy did it but they can't prove it so they find dirty ways to get him convicted and then he ends up in jail or death row and then people are like look at these holes in the trial and then he gets exonerated based off of that not necessarily that he isn't guilty what was the famous one on Netflix like The St oh making a murder yeah yeah they're saying that that that's he probably did it but the cops also helped with more that's the thing that happens more common than a guy just being randomly accused it's more that they knew it was him but they really wanted to ████ nail him that's what it seems like when you look at all the pieces together you're like oh this is why it doesn't make sense oh stuff like that also happened in suits um the ████ the main guy Gabriel Mox his like Mentor when he was working at the DA office same thing he would like do Shady things to make sure the the convict was convicted but then it would

10:09 be not the right by the book way to do the law so that was the what suits is that a show it's a show yeah oh bro you would like suits I'll watch it sus is dope it's a it's an older show it's an older show it's got like six seven seasons or some ████ that's a super common thing that they try to like they'll try to cut corners and they'll try to like loophole all these ways to get cuz they all they care about is a conviction right yeah and if you trly that's when the stat matters yeah that's ultimate what you're trying to do right just trying to get the legal to match your moral and also if you're in the defense side all you're trying to do if you have a client that is being uh I guess like charged with murder you just have to find holes in the in the other side's argument yeah that's kind of like so much lies but yeah it sucks if somebody was

10:59 innocent they're on death row and they died that way that does suck but also if anything it should teach all of us that's why you got to have your Alibi air ████ tight man you know what my mom always would just say she would always just be like that's their fault for being too close you know what I mean like you know like like like when you're like it sucks but yeah when you're not a thug but you hang out with gangs M and then when there's like those Mass arrests where they put like eight people on the sidewalk get caught up and then you get caught up in it and they're like oh I wasn't the one that pulled the trigger well why are you even being in the car then yeah that's I think that's the best lesson you can take away from any type of crime convictions is like if you don't want to get caught up don't flirt with that scene like if you stayed your ass in Kuman you wouldn't even have been on the ████ sidewalk yeah cuz then even corrupt police can't it's a harder time to get you yeah they got to

11:49 storm The Kuman yeah they like fools I can't get a warrant yeah it sucks but that is kind of the reality like if you're but what if you're born into it and all of your your family are thie and Gypsies and that's your destiny then then you're kind of screwed if you just have a bad family man or your Tommy Shelby and you become the king of gypsies that's what sucks is like I hate that it's true but like that's just hot yeah that's just hot if you're going to be close to Crime you just have to be even closer to exonerating yourself like you have to have like receipts you have to have like surveillance of yourself you have to have people that are going to hit the witness stand for you and ████ it's it's more complicated so it's if you do the crime then you got to do the time to study you got to do the due diligence of being a criminal like you can't just you can't just be a criminal and be like I didn't do that crime no you got to do the crime but you got to do the time to

12:42 study and then it didn't run yeah you just got to be a good criminal man you got studied [Music] everything [Music]

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