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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from the Young

Turks, the David Pakman show, Mumio Buccimall, the Rachel Maddo show, Counter-Spin, Activism

from Best of Left, and the Tom Hartman program.

And a quick warning that we will be discussing the fact that innocent people are put to death

in this country.

But if you're white, you can relax because it probably won't happen to you.

Now, back in 1976, of course, they restarted the death penalty regime.

And in Florida, they've taken advantage of that to do significant number of executions,

84, to be exact.

And there's one interesting fact about that that might put into question how they adjudicate

the death penalty and how they carried out.

Well, turns out that in the state of Florida, no white person has ever been executed

for killing an African-American.

Now, okay, you look at that by itself, you might say, look, there's a lot of different

states.

It could be just a coincidence that that's how Florida came out and maybe in other states,

they're leading more in the direction of a lot of white people that killed black people.

Because there's plenty of that in the country.

Get executed.

No.

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