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Criminal

The Job

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson had to prepare his staff to perform Oregon's first execution in three decades. They simulated each step of the process over and over and over. This episode was first released in 2018. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is presented by eBay.

0:03.7

Rob, everyone loves a deal and a bargain from time to time, don't they?

0:07.8

Absolutely, mate. And do you know where you can grab a great deal? Talk to me. Where?

0:11.9

The eBay app. Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay.

0:17.2

When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else.

0:23.7

Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most importantly, free.

0:27.2

It's free, Rob.

0:28.2

When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great deals on things you love, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

0:34.5

It excludes vehicles and business sellers.

0:38.0

Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts.

0:41.6

Sometimes you get an urge to look back at your past and the decisions you regret or the

0:46.1

connections you lost. And you start to wonder, what if things have gone differently?

0:51.8

Heavyweight is a podcast that looks into that question and tries to make things

0:55.4

right. Listening to a single episode, you can laugh, cry, reflect on crossroads in your own life,

1:00.7

or even find the closure you might be searching for. Listen to Heavyweight right now on Apple Podcasts.

1:09.5

My name is Frank Thompson, born in Arkansas, educated in Arkansas. When I grew up, it was, of course, the segregated South. But I was quite fortunate. I was raised in a very loving family. My parents were together.

1:29.6

We were involved in the church.

1:33.1

So we had our social outlets through our church.

1:38.0

We were brought up in a very cohesive black community.

1:50.0

And quite frankly, I think I really became alive on a social, social issue setting when Emmett Till was killed. In 1955, Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when a white woman accused him of whistling at her in her family's grocery store and making sexual advances.

2:02.1

A few nights later, the woman's husband and his half-brother kidnapped, tortured, and shot

2:08.7

14-year-old Emmett Till. They tied a 75-pound industrial fan around his neck and threw his body

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