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Liz, how many executions have you attended?

Wow, at this point, let's see. Four executions, an autopsy of an executed man, and a couple

of those executions were botched and failed. That seems really brutal. And I have one coming

up in December as well.

Liz Burnig is a writer at The Atlantic. For the last few years, the casual cruelty of

the death penalty has been an obsession of hers. She has submitted letter after letter

to corrections officials all over the country, asking to observe executions. A lot of the

time she gets turned down, she keeps track of each and mate anyway.

My kitchen wall is a chalkboard, and I do have a big calendar of executions.

Really?

The other side of it is the weekly menu, which is like chicken strips, carrots, and corn.

Oh my gosh.

For months, you've been focused on attending executions in Alabama. Why Alabama?

Alabama has an attorney general, Steve Marshall, who's very interested in executions. He seems

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