4/29/22 Jordan Smith on Melissa Lucio and the Pitfalls of Capital Punishment

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Scott is joined by investigative journalist Jordan Smith to discuss Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman awaiting execution. Smith walks us through Lucio’s case where the tragic death of her child was immediately assumed by police and prosecutors to be foul play. Smith’s reporting has uncovered the ways Lucio was misled and manipulated into falsely incriminating herself only hours after losing her child. Lucio narrowly avoided execution last week, but she still has a long fight ahead of her to avoid being killed by the State of Texas. Smith explains where things stand for Lucio going forward. Discussed on the show: “Melissa Lucio’s Life Was Spared At The Last Minute, What Happens Now?” (The Intercept) “How the flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis has sent innocent people to prison” (Washington Post) Jordan Smith is an investigative journalist based in Austin, Texas. She has covered criminal justice for 20 years and is regarded as one of the best investigative reporters in Texas. A longtime staff writer for the Austin Chronicle, she now writes for The Intercept. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. way back when she was with the Austin Chronicle and now she's with the
0:54.6	intercept of course we're all boycotting the intercept because of how horrible they
0:59.3	are but you can put all of her URLs in archive dot i s and read her great work anyway
1:06.4	and uh here she is with lilyana segura
1:10.5	Melissa Lucio's life was spared at the last minute.
1:14.5	What happens now and proceeding that was as execution looms mounting evidence points to Melissa Lucio's innocence.
1:23.4	Welcome back to the show, Jordan, how you doing?
1:25.7	I'm doing well, thanks for having me.
1:27.4	Very happy to have you here, and I've been a fan of your work for,
1:30.2	I don't know, 20 years, 30, 25, something.
1:34.3	Always great stuff and looks like he saved somebody's life here.
1:37.6	Who's Melissa Lucio?
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