Two Executions Same Day 60 Minutes Apart: Will Kohberger Face Needle or Bullet?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

James Dennis Ford and Richard Lee Tabler were both executed on February 13, 2025. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crimes that led both men to be sentenced to death as well as take a look at methods for carrying out the death sentence. They also discuss what Bryan Kohberger might face if he is convicted in the Idaho Student murders. James Dennis Ford murdered Gregory and Kimberly Malnory while on a fishing trip. Ford shot Gregory Malnory in the head with a .22-caliber rifle, bludgeoned him, and slit his throat. Ford then raped, beat, and shot Kimberly Malnory. All of this in front of their 23-month old daughter, Maranda Malnory, who was left behind as Ford fled the scene. Maranda was found nearly a day later - dehydrated and covered in insect bites by an employee of a nearby sod farm. Florida executed James Dennis Ford by lethal injection.

One Hour Later:

Richard Lee Tabler was 24 when he fatally shot four people in 2004. He has always admitted this, but was only tried and convicted for the murders of Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni, 25, and Haitham Frank Zayed, 28. Texas used a lethal injection of pentobarbital to kill the 46-year-old Tabler, whose mother and sister were among the witnesses to the execution.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.91 Introduction
04:34.95 Two executions take place on the same day
09:08.11 During murders, mother puts 23-month old daughter in car
14:42.77 Being present for autopsy of person sentenced to death
20:08.51 Convict said to have mind of a child
25:14.09 Victims lured to death
29:14.60 Tabler gets "saved" while in prison
38:48.20 Discussion of Capital Punishment qualified
43:11.80 Using Capital punishment as a deterrent
48:10.55 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	You know, one of the most amazing things I think that I saw that I wasn't expecting to see one day.
0:11.0	This is going to seem very benign for many of our friends out there I know.
0:17.0	I happen to be in South Georgia, and I was tooling down the road with my wife so many years ago.
0:25.6	And as far as the eye could see, I saw vast fields of green green grass.
0:34.6	I know that sounds like that, you know, that weird song from the 70s where the guy,
0:39.3	you know, interestingly enough, that I think died and he was searching for the green, green grass at home.
0:45.3	But it turns out that what I was seeing, because it had the big irrigation cranes that kind of rolled back and forth over it.
0:56.5	I saw a sod farm.
0:58.4	I'd never seen anything like that.
1:00.5	And as we went further down the road, I saw where it was being cut and rolled,
1:05.4	which is a pretty fascinating process.
1:09.9	You know, just to kind of see those large stacks of grass that had been rolled up like giant green cinnamon rolls and were laid there.
1:17.6	Now, as you can imagine, I'm kind of a nerd, so that thing, that type of thing, you know, fascinates me.
1:24.6	But today, I'm going to talk about a couple of cases and one actually
1:32.8	involves sod and it's doesn't end well. Matter of fact it ends quite
1:40.9	tragically with a 24-month-old little child being saturated in her parents' blood
1:51.9	being found, strapped into a car seat in her parents' vehicle. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan,
1:59.3	and this is Bodybacks.
2:04.1	Dave, I want to ask you something not to belabor this point too much, but can you tell me,
2:10.9	do you remember looking back in Tom?
2:14.3	What was your first major league baseball game that you ever went to?
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