Duterte To Terrorists: "I Can Eat You"; Arkansas Moves Quickly to Execute Death Row Inmates.
SESAY: Well, if you think you've heard it all from Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines president, he's done it again, given us another statement for the history books. His plan to stop terrorists? Eat them.</s>RODRIGO DUTERTE, PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT (through translation): They are animals. If you want to me to be an animal, I can be one. I can be the same. I can dish it more than what you can. Fifty times more than you can. I can eat you. Just give me salt and vinegar. True. Make me mad. Get me a terrorist. Give me salt and vinegar. I will eat his liver.</s>SESAY: He sure has a way with words. The president has had clashes with terrorists for months now and, perhaps, outside militants since they made their way onto a popular tourist island.</s>VAUSE: Two down and five to go in the U.S. state of Arkansas after another two inmates were executed on Monday, Jack Howell Jones (ph) and Marcel Wayne Williams (ph), both convicted of murder. When their last-minute legal appeals failed, they were killed by lethal injection on Monday, brining relief for the family of the woman who was killed by Jones.</s>ROBBY JONES, FAMILY MEMBER OF VICTIM: This has been an ongoing process that lasted over 20 years. It came close a few times. And we're glad that it's finally over with. It's been an emotional rollercoaster. No one in our family wants death for anybody, but some people deserve what they deserve.</s>VAUSE: Last Thursday, Arkansas executed Riddell Lee (ph) by lethal injection as well. He was the first to die after the state governor laid out an unprecedented timetable of eight executions in 11 days. The reason for the rush? Because the drugs used in those lethal injections are set to expire by the end of the month, past the use-by date. So now the clock is ticking down. Another execution scheduled for Thursday with the rest on hold while those death-row inmates exhaust their last legal appeals. For more, Jen Moreno, an attorney with the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, joins us now from Austin, Texas. Jen, thank you for being with us. We have this rush now to carry out so many executions, it seems to be a matter of expediency. So how does that sit legally because, unless I'm wrong, any stay which the court has issued has not looked at the timetable for so many executions in a short period that's been though a whole host of other reasons.</s>JEN MORENO, ATTORNEY, DEATH PENALTY CLINIC, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: Yes, certainly, the schedule -- the original scheduling of eight in 10 or 11 days is unprecedented and we have not seen anything other state with a schedule like that. What we've seen, the stays that have been granted, they have been further revisited, some having to do with competency, a DNA testing claim, and a couple of others. I think that shows us that in the speed of rushing executions we're really ignoring a lot of significant problems with the cases. And there hasn't been time to litigate these important issues.</s>VAUSE: Arkansas isn't the only state here which is having a problem getting the drugs for lethal injections. The E.U. banned sales of these drugs to death-penalty states. But why aren't U.S. pharmacies stepping in to provide these drugs?</s>MORENO: I think what we're seeing is -- well, first of all, the drugs that Arkansas is planning to use, it is available in manufactured form. Pharmacies have stepped in and provided drugs to states for use in other executions, Texas, Missouri, and a different drug. The pharmacy in Virginia did provided a compounded drug. But because of the circumstances surrounding the process of acquiring drugs in Arkansas and other states, we don't really know the details of who they've asked, the reasons are why they haven't been able to get other drugs. What we're seeing is we have to rely on their word that they can't get additional drugs and, therefore, have to rush through with these executions.</s>VAUSE: We heard from the governor of Arkansas. He says he is a reluctant executioner, he has a responsibility to the families of the victims of these men. Maybe we can sort of understand that. But it is very difficult understand that essentially all of the executions have been planned simply because the drugs are said to expire, essentially, they will pass their sell-by-date, if you like.</s>MORENO: Yeah. Certainly, that seems to be almost as arbitrary of a reason to do so many executions in such a short timeframe.</s>VAUSE: The critics have also called the assembly line of death. What impact do you think this would have, or is having, rather, on the debate about the death penalty in the U.S.?</s>MORENO: I think what we've seen in the commentary on this is that people seem to be pretty shocked and even appalled at this schedule and how many there are in such a short period of time. As we move further away from this and we look back and we see these prisoners were granted stays for a number of different reasons, it just highlights how many different problems there are with the death penalty. And those don't go away because you rush to execute people.</s>VAUSE: Yeah. This will be an ongoing story and a lot of legal issues to be resolved. A lot of ethical issues as well. Jen, great to speak with you. Thank you.</s>MORENO: Thank you, much.</s>SESAY: Time for a quick break now. Coming up in our next our, part two of our CNN Freedom Project investigation into labor trafficking on cattle ranches in Brazil's rain forest.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I left there, my heart opened up. It was a pleasure to get back to my hour with my family. So many things have changed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: A house that Louis (ph), nearly 70, rents in town for his youngest children, paid for with his government pension.</s>SESAY: We'll have that story and more on the pursuit of traffickers in the Amazon coming up next hour on the CNN Freedom Project. We will be right back.