Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These. We're in the early episodes

of a series focusing on forgiveness and reconciliation in all its forms. Family riffs, reparations,

healing the planet, and inevitably criminal justice reform. And in fact, that's what our

first few episodes have been about. Last week, we talked to Marie's Shama about the rise

in fall of the death penalty. This week, Liliana Segura, a reporter for the intercept, will

explain how the death penalty's waning popularity hasn't saved those still on death row. People

are still being put to death. And you may recall that the Trump administration expended a lot

of energy in its last month's restarting federal executions, for no really good reason,

except that they cooked. Liliana will explain why we should still care, and what the reverberations

of those Trump administration killing spree executions might be. And she'll tell us a couple

of tragic stories, and an important hopeful one. And she is coming right up. With Friends

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