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Deadliest 48 Hours Of The Year On Death Row, Begins Tonight

Intimate Knowledge

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There are three executions scheduled over the next two days in the United States. All three men are fighting their executions scheduled to take place in Arizona, Tennessee, and Florida. One governor already declared at the beginning of this week that he will not stop the execution, despite public pleas from the ACLU and Kim Kardashian.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.1

Hey there, folks.

0:07.1

It is Wednesday, May 20th, and over the next two days, there are three executions

0:14.2

scheduled in the United States.

0:16.5

And Kim Kardashian is trying to stop at least one of them.

0:19.3

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

0:23.6

Well, yes, we've had days where they're back-to-back.

0:27.2

But just something, that seems like a lot over a couple of days.

0:30.5

But yeah, three states have executions on the book starting tonight.

0:34.9

Yes, and it's been described as the deadliest week for the death

0:39.0

penalty in the United States so far this year. We haven't seen three people scheduled to die

0:46.2

by lethal injection in a week, let alone in a period of two days. We haven't seen it at all until now.

0:56.0

And yes, and we should say, well, how does this happen? Why does this happen? It's in three

1:00.9

different states. They're not coordinating efforts. They are signing independently. Death

1:05.6

warrants. The governors are, and these dates are scheduled. And they just happen to fall like this.

1:09.6

We should mention the three states, at least, no, no, I guess one of them will come as no

1:14.8

surprise.

1:15.5

The second one maybe not, but another we don't hear as much from when it comes to executions.

1:20.1

Yes, Arizona is going to be executing its first inmate of the year.

1:26.1

Tennessee is also scheduled to have an execution tomorrow morning.

1:30.2

And then, yes, the state of Florida that we're all very, very familiar with now when it comes

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