Episode 24: Death Penalty

Justice In America

The Appeal

News, Politics, Prison, Law, Criminal, Justice, Jail, History, Education, Incarceration, America

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Justice in America, Josie Duffy Rice, and guest co-host Darnell Moore, focus on the death penalty. Capital punishment remains one of the cruelest aspects of America’s criminal legal system. In America, over 2500 people are currently on death row. Last year, 19 people were executed. Josie and Darnell explore the history of the death penalty, including the short period in the 1970s where it was deemed unconstitutional, and examine its current use in America today.

Joining them is guest State Attorney Aramis Ayala of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. State Attorney Ayala was the first black woman elected prosecutor in the state, and in 2016 made a decision to not seek the death penalty. She'll talk to Josie and Darnel about why she made that decision, and the pushback that she received after choosing not to seek the death penalty as prosecutor.

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0:00.0	So while the Supreme Court ruled in the case that I had against the death penalty that I had to look at at a case by case basis, in my opinion, it wasn't a case by case basis. It was the case of death
0:17.2	penalty. It is a tragic, ineffective, destructive system that has been destroying lives, eating up budgets, and it's
0:25.2	not doing anything but giving us this badge that we carry as if we had some great authority
0:30.2	to play God. Hi, I'm Josie Duffy Race, and I'm Darnell Moore. And this is Justice in America.
0:44.3	Each show we discuss a topic in the American criminal justice
0:46.9	system, and we try to explain what it is and how it works.
0:50.6	Thank you so much everyone for joining us today. You can find us on Twitter at
0:54.3	Justice underscore podcast. We're also on Facebook at Justice in America and
0:58.7	subscribe and rate us on Apple Podcast. We love to hear from you. We're so excited to have
1:03.2	Darnell Moore back with us for this episode. He joined us at the beginning of the
1:06.7	season. Darnell is just such an incredible person and guide in my life and has really been such an influence on the way I think
1:16.0	about the criminal justice system and I'm just thrilled he's here and joining us.
1:20.0	Really glad to be here.
1:21.3	So we opened the show with a clip from our guest,
1:23.6	Aramis Ayala, who is a state attorney for the ninth judicial circuit court of
1:28.0	Florida. State attorney is what they call prosecutors in Florida. State attorney Ayala was the first black woman
1:34.7	elected to this position and after her election 2016 she made this very
1:39.2	brave decision to not seek the death penalty which she announced publicly and she faced an enormous
1:46.3	amount of pushback. She'll talk to us about why she made that decision and what it's
1:51.3	been like having to deal with some of the pushback that she's received for choosing not to seek the death penalty as prosecutor.
1:58.6	Today's subject is the death penalty, but first we're going to talk about the word of the day deterrence
2:06.8	deterrence is a major part of criminal law basically you have to punish people
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