She Changed The State Of Death Row In This Country
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
The 20-year-old mother woke up in a daze, neck sore. Shocked, she saw her husband beside her, dying. Shockingly, she would not only get sent to prison for her husband’s murder, but end up battling her entire country.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1963, America's Georgia, 15 Black girls joined a protest. |
| 0:05.9 | One for the matinee, please. |
| 0:08.1 | Negroes, get your tickets in the back. |
| 0:11.1 | We just want tickets to see the show. |
| 0:12.8 | It comes a whole mess of tickets for each and every one of you. |
| 0:16.3 | Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:21.2 | Based on the truth story, Push Black Presents, |
| 0:24.9 | The Stolen Girls of Americus. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen and follow on the Odyssey app, |
| 0:29.8 | or wherever you find your podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | The 20-year-old mother woke up in a day's neck sore. Shocked, she saw her husband |
| 0:40.2 | beside her, dying. Shockingly, she would not only get sent to prison for her husband's |
| 0:46.2 | murder, but end up battling her entire country. This is two-minute black history, what you |
| 0:53.7 | didn't learn in School. |
| 0:56.7 | On July 9th, the year 2000, 20-year-old Susan Kigula woke up to sharp neck pain. |
| 1:04.5 | Her husband was bleeding out. Two burglars fled into the night. Three days later, Kigula was accused of murder, a later sentence to death by hanging. |
| 1:16.1 | But she refused to go down without a fight. |
| 1:19.2 | Kigula became the face of a case against Uganda to amend its law. |
| 1:25.1 | In 2009, its Supreme Court decided that the death penalty was no longer |
| 1:29.9 | mandatory for those found guilty of murder. Further, after someone spends three years on death |
| 1:35.7 | row, their sentence converts to 20 years. Kigula was released in 2016 and hundreds of others |
| 1:43.3 | were retroactively released. Today, Kigula was released in 2016 and hundreds of others were retroactively released. |
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