(2011/10/09) Give me an actual number (Troy Davis and the Death Penalty)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 October 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #536
Give me an actual number
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Act 1: Examining the death penalty in the run up to Troy Davis execution - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Free Troy Davis - The Last Internationale
Act 2: Troy Davis Execution - Young Turks
Song 2: The Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Act 3: The morning after Troy Davis execution - Majority Report
Song 3: Certain death - Brad Sucks
Act 4: Mercy in Short Supply for Troy Davis - The Progressive
Song 4: Mercy - OneRepublic
Act 5: Dave Zirin on the questions he can't unask - Citizen Radio
Song 5: Death penalty - Eight Dayz
Act 6: Troy Davis: Movement Lessons - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 9-25-11
Song 6: Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song) - Steve Earle
Act 7: Barry Scheck - Troy Davis case - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 9-22-11
Song 7: Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen
Act 8: Death Penalty Hypocrisy, Troy Davis Samuel David Crowe - David Pakman Air Date: 9-27-11
Song 8: Death Penalty - Surrogate
Act 9: Interview with an executioner - Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Great beyond - Aimee Mann
Act 10: Give me an actual number - Matthew Filipowicz Show
Voicemails:
Outraged by Troy Davis execution - Ves from North Dakota
Outraged by right wing reaction to Troy Davis execution - Ves from North Dakota
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on why the death penalty is fun
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
California Ending Death Penalty - Liberal Viewer Air Date 09-12-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.0 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfAVLF.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the award-winning BestOfAVLF podcast with clips today from the Rachel Maddo Show, |
| 0:13.0 | The Young Turks, The Majority Report, The Progressive Citizen Radio, |
| 0:16.0 | Mumi Abu Jamal, The Tom Hartman program, The David Pakman Show, |
| 0:20.0 | and for the first time, The Matthew Phillip Povit Show, |
| 0:23.0 | with a bonus to clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from Liberal Viewer. |
| 0:29.0 | This is sodium thio-pental. |
| 0:32.0 | In small doses, this drug is sometimes called truth serum. |
| 0:35.0 | In large doses, it is the way that we prefer to kill prisoners in America. |
| 0:39.0 | Sodium thio-pental won a three drugs used in combination for lethal injection. |
| 0:43.0 | Sodium thio-pental used to be made in this country by a company in Illinois. |
| 0:47.0 | But after that company moved its manufacturing operations to Italy, |
| 0:50.0 | it stopped making the drug. |
| 0:51.0 | It wasn't worth the trouble anymore. |
| 0:53.0 | Because Italians are multumult though against the death penalty. |
| 0:56.0 | So about a year ago, the company just stopped making the drug. |
| 0:59.0 | With no more sodium thio-pental being made in the United States, |
| 1:02.0 | or by the American company that outsourced its manufacturing overseas, |
| 1:06.0 | death penalty states had to look for new ways to get the drug, |
| 1:09.0 | or they had to come up with new ways to kill their prisoners. |
| 1:12.0 | The state of Georgia first tried to find an alternate source for getting the drug, |
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