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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Malcolm and Liliana Segura, a criminal justice reporter at Intercept, sat down for an episode of The Intercept Briefing to discuss The Alabama Murders, the inherent cruelty of the death penalty, and the concerning rise of executions in America.
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| 0:51.2 | Hey, Revisionist History listeners, Ben out of halfry here. |
| 0:55.1 | This past season on revisionist history, the Alabama murders, |
| 0:58.7 | we told the tale of how one death snowballed into a cascade of moral failures, |
| 1:04.3 | masked with legal fig leaves, |
| 1:06.5 | the misunderstanding of what constitutes reasonable doubt, |
| 1:09.8 | the myth that there's a painless way to kill |
| 1:11.6 | somebody. At its core, the Alabama murders is a searing critique of cruelty in America in the |
| 1:18.3 | legal system that allows that cruelty to thrive. But the story goes much deeper than a single case |
| 1:24.4 | or a single incident from the 1980s. As of December 1st this year, |
| 1:29.1 | 11 states have executed a total of 44 people, making 2025 one of the deadliest years for state |
| 1:36.8 | sanctioned killings. And in Alabama, they're still using nitrogen hypoxia, the brutal method |
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