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Today, Explained

Reviving death

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

After 16 years, the Trump administration is bringing back the federal death penalty. Reverend Sharon Risher, who lost her mother, two cousins, and a childhood friend in the Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, explains how she feels about the possibility of Dylann Roof being executed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.2

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0:18.7

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them.

0:24.0

It would mean the world to us.

0:25.3

Thanks.

0:30.4

The death penalty used to be a huge talking point in heated national debates right up

0:37.3

there with abortion, but then the federal government and states slowed down executions

0:42.4

and it kind of faded out of the national conversation.

0:46.2

But on Wednesday, it was back.

0:47.6

I want to bring a congressman, a gathered back in your response.

0:51.0

The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference

0:55.1

and an impact in these people's lives, you did not and worse yet in the case of those

0:59.9

who were on death row.

1:01.8

Innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed

1:06.5

them until you were forced to do so.

1:08.8

There is no excuse for that.

1:10.6

And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.

1:16.5

Senator Harris.

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