14: The Penalty Is Death

Rebuttal

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True Crime

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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A prison break, the oldest biker gang in the world, 558 death sentences, a body in a river, and the man who tried to dodge death just to run straight into it. Twice. The Supreme Court in 1976 had no idea it would set off a chain of events worthy of a biopic and a newfound appreciation for Harley Davidsons, bro code, and a really catchy crime syndicate slogan. Rev (Reb?) your engines. It's about to get bloody. The penalty is death in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). WATCH THIS EPISODE YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IWohmpaeS7c?si=Ephgw-G9rmO66Bg_ Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and @Rebmasel on TikTok :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, finding your best summer shouldn't be so hard.
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0:20.3	In May of 1980, four inmates on death row at a maximum security prison in Reedsville, Georgia,
0:27.1	wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter with an offer.
0:31.2	Send us on a military mission to rescue the 52 American hostages being held in Iran.
0:39.6	Quote, all four of us have discussed this proposition and we would rather go to our graves
0:45.4	fighting for our country than sitting here and rotting in this hell.
0:50.3	wrote Carl Isaacs.
0:52.2	Isaacs was on death row for murdering a family of six in their home in 1973.
0:58.0	The other inmates were Troy Greg, Timothy Mercorka Dale, and David Jarrell.
1:05.0	Despite being published in many newspapers around the country,
1:09.0	President Jimmy Carter never replied to their letter.
1:12.0	Two and a half months later in the early morning hours of
1:15.9	July 28th 1980, Carl Isaacs was still alive in Block A1 of the Georgia State Prison in Reedsville.
1:24.3	One floor beneath him was his final destination,
1:28.1	the state's electric chair.
1:31.4	Or so the state thought.
1:33.0	Because in the early morning hours of July 28th, Isaacs was not only alive in Block A1, he was outside of his cell.
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