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🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Childhood should be fun. Don't let bed wetting spoil that. |
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0:26.0 | Let me first and most importantly thank the extraordinary turnout legislative leadership of the state. |
0:33.0 | Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom of California got up in the rotunda of the Sacramento Capitol and made what was built as a major |
0:48.0 | policy announcement. But this announcement was more like a policy argument, a closing statement, a |
1:00.0 | full-thirty case against the death penalty. |
1:05.0 | The question really is do we have the right to kill? Do we have the right to kill? |
1:13.0 | That's a deep and existential question. I don't believe we do. |
1:19.0 | I know those things, people think I for I, but if you're rape, we don't rape. |
1:24.0 | I think if someone kills, we don't kill. We're better than that. |
1:29.0 | Newsom was declaring a moratorium on executions. But he presented it as a kind of personal choice. |
1:35.0 | He said it's the person in charge of signing the death warrants for the 737 people in California's death row. |
1:42.0 | He just couldn't do it. |
1:44.0 | And we are as I speak, as I speak, shutting down, removing the equipment in the death chamber at Sam Quentin. |
1:57.0 | And then his office sent on a tweet, pictures of the electric chair and the lethal injection table being loaded onto a truck and carted away. |
2:06.0 | I think it's sort of dramatically illustrating his commitment to not have executions go forward. |
2:13.0 | Jordan Steiger has been watching this announcement play out. He's a death penalty lawyer in Texas. |
2:19.0 | It's one thing to say, you know, I'm unlikely to sign death warrants going forward because I'm troubled by the practice. |
2:26.0 | It's another thing to dismantle the execution chamber is a dramatic way of illustrating his commitment to that. |
2:38.0 | Today on the show, Jordan's going to explain what this decision means for the rest of the country. |
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