37.1 The Electric Chair: "Seven In The Picture"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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"Seven In The Picture" was recorded live on May 27th, 2018\. It was part of our show, **The Electric Chair**.
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Featured in this episode:
James Rieser as Orlando "Red" Seymour
Alain Laforest as Hascue Dockery
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Charles Mitra
James Kleinmann as Milford Lawson
Michael Pate as William Moore
David Linton as James Howard
Gustavo Rodriguez as Clarence McQueen
Mary Murphy & Kacie Laforest as the True Crime Podcasters
Ali Silva as the Narrator
Radio play by Silbin Sandovar & Courtenay Gillean Cholovich
Special research by Courtenay Gillean Cholovich
Directed by Ali Silva & Gustavo Rodriguez
Musical score improvised by Noel Carey
Sound Effects Designer and Engineer: Greg Russ
Technical Director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Production Coordinator: Brontis Shane Orengo
Theme music by Jason Graves
Post-production audio by Ali Silva
Podcast production by Ali Silva & Daniel Graves
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez, Ali Silva, Daniel Graves, & Rebecca Graves for Fireside Mystery Productions
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| 0:00.0 | A solemn chair. The man seated is all alone. This seat belongs to him in this moment and no one else. And yet he is watched. |
| 0:22.6 | His isolation is the very purpose for this audience. |
| 0:26.6 | What has brought them all here, separate and yet together? |
| 0:31.6 | A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. |
| 0:35.6 | The nature of justice is a subject that has consumed us |
| 0:39.0 | since the time of Hamarabi and before. When humans are faced with human crimes, robbery, assault, |
| 0:46.7 | murder, we are driven by both emotion and reason to find a righteous end to these tales of tragedy. |
| 0:56.6 | For all of our advances in society, |
| 1:01.9 | still we quail at the thought of that terribly recurring question. What is the trade-off, |
| 1:08.4 | the punishment for a life deliberately cut short? There are some who bear the burden of this question on a daily basis. One of them is Kentucky State |
| 1:12.0 | Supreme Court Justice, Bill Cunningham. As Kentucky is one of the few states, along with Alabama, |
| 1:18.3 | Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia that still use the electric chair as a means |
| 1:24.2 | of capital punishment, Cunningham's career as a prosecutor, judge, and justice |
| 1:28.5 | has brought him face to face with such decisions every day. Please be warned, the following |
| 1:34.6 | audio clip contains frank discussion of the grisly details of true events. It may not be suitable for |
| 1:40.8 | all of our listeners. As a trial judge, the first death penalty case I had, it's a special judge case, I actually |
| 1:51.0 | have another county I got assigned to terrible crime. |
| 1:55.0 | This guy who had a prior sex record abducted this little 17-year-old senior in high school up in Greenville, Kentucky, |
| 2:05.3 | abducted her. |
| 2:06.2 | She had gone down to rent a videotape one night, and he saw her, and we don't know exactly how he got in her van. |
| 2:15.8 | Some way or another, he got in her van uh he abducted her took her out to a |
| 2:21.3 | remote place that was a a lake local lake he uh raped her cut her throat with a box cutter and threw her in |
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