Ernest Johnson And The State Of The Death Penalty

What A Day

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Ernest Johnson was executed in Missouri, yesterday. Johnson had been on death row for over 25 years after being convicted of the 1994 murder of three people. However, pleas for clemency from his supporters, including Pope Francis, intensified recently, saying Johnson’s intellectual disabilities made the execution unconstitutional and immoral. The FDA’s advisory committee will be considering more booster shots, next week, as well as Pfizer vaccines for young children. Also, the drug company Merck said that its pill to treat COVID-19 reduced the risk of hospitalization among high risk people by 50 percent in a clinical trial. And in headlines: a report found the French Catholic Church abused more than 200,000 minors over the last 70 years, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the Senate, and a Russian film crew arrived at the International Space Station to make history. Show Notes: NY Times: “Missouri Executes Death Row Prisoner Despite Pleas From Pope and Others” – https://nyti.ms/3msq0nV Bloomberg: “Everything You Need to Know About Merck’s Game-Changing Covid Pill” – https://bloom.bg/3mvGADg NY Times: “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” – https://nyti.ms/2WJQ6tM For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 6th. I'm getting a russet.
0:09.1	And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is what a day. Where we have grown a lot since
0:14.0	Pitchfork gave us a less than zero review back in 2007.
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0:22.8	member.
0:23.8	But honestly, we'd settle for just like a flat zero.
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0:35.2	On today's show, we preview the future of COVID vaccine boosters, which might get an update
0:39.5	as soon as next week. Plus, the Facebook whistleblower testified before Congress yesterday.
0:44.7	But first, we need to tell you about the tragic death of Ernest Johnson. He was executed
0:50.0	in Missouri yesterday, just after 6 p.m. local time. Johnson had been on death row for over
0:55.3	25 years after being convicted of the 1994 murder of three convenience store employees.
1:02.4	In the past few weeks, please for clemency for Johnson intensified at least two of
1:07.0	Missouri's Congress members, Emmanuel Cleaver and Cory Bush, asked Governor Mike Persons
1:11.3	to spare Johnson's life with Bush calling it a crime against humanity.
1:16.8	This week, the Pope also asked the governor to stop Johnson's execution due to quote,
1:22.3	this simple fact of Mr. Johnson's humanity and the sacredness of all human life.
1:27.4	Yeah, that would make sense, right? And this case in particular was extremely controversial.
1:34.2	So can you tell us a little bit about the background here?
1:37.0	Yeah, absolutely. So Johnson's attorneys argue that his execution was not only immoral,
1:42.1	but unconstitutional given his intellectual disability. In 2002, seven years after Johnson's
1:47.8	death sentence, the US Supreme Court ruled in Atkins, Virginia that the execution of people
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