REGGIE FLUTY: We went out and got shitfaced.

MARGE MURRAY: (Simultaneous) Shitfaced.

REGGIE FLUTY: They all bought me drinks too, it was great … and everybody hugged and cried, and, you know, I kissed everybody who walked through the door …

MARGE MURRAY: Reggie, they don’t need to know that.

REGGIE FLUTY: I didn’t care if they were male or female, they each got a kiss on the lips.

(REGGIE and MARGE exit together, arguing as they go.)

MARGE MURRAY: Now what part of what I just said didn’t you understand?

REGGIE FLUTY: Oh, get over it, Maw!

MOMENT: A DEATH PENALTY CASE

NARRATOR: Almost a year to the day that Matthew Shepard died, the trial for Aaron James McKinney was set to begin.

CAL RERUCHA: Probably the question that most of you have in your mind is ah, ah, how the McKinney case will proceed.

NARRATOR: Cal Rerucha, prosecuting attorney:

CAL RERUCHA: And it’s the decision of the county attorney’s office that that will definitely be a death penalty case.

MARGE MURRAY: Part of me wants McKinney to get it. But I’m not very proud of that. I was on and off, off and on. I can’t say what I would do … I’m too personally involved.

ZACKIE SALMON: Oh, I believe in the death penalty one hundred percent. You know, because I want to make sure that guy’s ass dies. This is one instance where I truly believe with all my heart an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

MATT MICKELSON: I don’t know about the death penalty. But I don’t ever want to see them ever walk out of Rawlins Penitentiary. I’ll pay my nickel, or whatever, my little percentage of tax, nickel a day to make sure that his ass stays in there and never sees society again and definitely never comes into my bar again.

MATT GALLOWAY: I don’t believe in the death penalty. It’s too much for me. I don’t believe that one person should be killed as redemption for his having killed another. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

ZUBAIDA ULA: How can I protest, if the Shepards want McKinney dead? I just can’t interfere in that. But on a personal level, I knew Aaron in grade school. We never called him Aaron, he was called A.J.… How can we put A.J. McKinney—how can we put A.J. McKinney to death?

FATHER ROGER SCHMIT: I think right now our most important teachers must be Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney. They have to be our teachers. How did you learn? What did we as a society do to teach you that? See, I don’t know if many people will let them be their teachers. I think it would be wonderful if the judge said: “In addition to your sentence, you must tell your story, you must tell your story.”