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The Case of Peter Pringle
📻 Episode #12
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 20, 2017
About This Episode
Peter Pringle was wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery and the murder of two police officers during a bank raid in Ireland in 1980. He was the last person sentenced to death in Ireland, and just days before a noose was to be tied around his neck, Peter learned that Ireland’s president had commuted his…
The Case
Peter Pringle was wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery and the murder of two police officers during a bank raid in Ireland in 1980. He was the last person sentenced to death in Ireland, and just days before a noose was to be tied around his neck, Peter learned that Ireland’s president had commuted his sentence to 40 years without parole. Peter then immersed himself in legal texts and effectively became a jailhouse lawyer. He discovered that the confession used by the prosecution was written down in a police officer’s notebook prior to his interrogation about the killings. Serving as his own counsel, he eventually convinced the Court of Criminal Appeal to quash his conviction in 1995. Today, Peter is a human rights and anti-death penalty activist and together he and his wife, Sunny Jacobs, also a death row exoneree, run the Sunny Center in Ireland where they provide counseling to other exonerees.
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00:07:37“Speaker 2: a bullet wound. Because I remember the guy that they Speaker 2: arrested had been shot told him that his friend had Speaker 2: also been shot, so they were looking to see had Speaker 2: I a bullet wound, And when I didn't have a Speaker 2: bullet wound, that looked very disappointed. But that didn't stop”
00:28:57“Speaker 2: came up to me, he was weeping. He was crying, Speaker 2: he was in tears. And I found myself in this Speaker 2: bizarre situation that I was standing up with my arm Speaker 2: around his name is Sheamus Egan, the lawyer. My arm Speaker 2: was around him, and I was saying it's okay, it's okay,”
00:48:57“Speaker 2: convicted and sentenced to death. And she said, you got Speaker 2: through very well. She said, how did you get through Speaker 2: so easy so well? And I said, yoga and meditation. Speaker 1: First of all. By the way, this is a hell Speaker 1: of a first date, I got to give it up”
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