Prisoner's Final Death Row Interview Before Execution | Our Life
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Susanna Reid travels to Texas, home of the most active death chamber in the United States, to meet the notorious Death Row inmate Billie Wayne Coble in the countdown to his scheduled execution. In 1989, Billie pled guilty to triple murder and has been languishing on Death Row ever since. Now 70 years old, Billie is fighting for a last-minute stay of execution ... if it fails, he is set to become the oldest man put to death in Texas for over 100 years. Susanna is granted Billie's final television interview in the eight-day run up to his death date. In this intense meeting, Susanna revisits the night of the crime in an attempt to find out why Billie Wayne committed these senseless murders. Delving into his family life, Susanna builds a picture of what kind of man Billie was back in 1989, and what kind of man he is now. Death is inevitable but what is it like knowing when, where and how you are going to die?
This film was first broadcast: 20 Jun 2019
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All Comments (21)
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For him to be alive for almost 30 years is a crime in itself
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She clearly doesn't accept he's a sociopath. Stop asking him if he's sorry. he's not sorry. he'll never be sorry.
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In the end, he was treated much more humanely than he treated his victims.
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I literally HATE his smile. It's so creepy and sinister. It gives me goosebumps and shivers
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He clearly had NO REMORSE whatsoever. 😢 Literally every single answer that he gives is sarcastic.
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The other big crime here besides the 3 murders, is he was allowed to appeal for 28 years while both the victims and his own family suffered. He got 28 more years of life than his victims did
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I feel for the son and grandson. Never even met his grandfather. Was on death row his entire life. But Billie has no one to blame but himself
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I never felt sorry for the old man...but..for his son ,and his wife and their son my heart broke. I hope they found their peace and the strength to move on.
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28 years on death row is ridiculous. He lived to be 70. There's something really wrong with our justice system.
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This is why you don’t wait 30 years to execute these murderers. Everyone thinks this guy’s just a harmless old man. Waiting decades to carry out the sentence is cruel and unusual punishment for all those involved.
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I feel sorry for the people who hear a "death sentence" from a doctor. They usually don't get 20-30 years of appeals to prepare for the end. If you hear it from a judge, you most likely earned it. So don't feel sorry for yourself now; after all you couldn't find those feelings for your victims back then.
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My heart goes out to both families..
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Can't even bring himself to apologize! Let him face the consequences
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Time on deathrow didn't change that man. He remained the same cold-hearted individual to the end.
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HE WON’T EVEN SAY HE IS SORRY! Pure evil. 👿
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Almost no comments on the son that lost his father and was present when all of this happened? He must be so traumatized… just a kid. I feel very sad for him. He’s the one that lost his father for zero reason and never got to spend some time with him another 30 years.
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It's not right that he spends 22 hours in a cell? I guess he shouldn't have slaughtered 3 innocent people. I don't feel sorry for this animal.
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He answered most of the questions like a politician
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This reporters false concern was sickening to the core.
