What It Took for a Red State to Pause Executions
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🗓️ 25 May 2014
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Summary
Three botched lethal injections in Alabama have once again highlighted the practical complexity and possible illegality of the death penalty. Even states that are adamantly in favor of capital punishment are being stalled on a purely pragmatic level.
Guest: Elizabeth Bruenig, staff writer at The Atlantic
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| 0:27.0 | Just a warning here at the top. In today's show, we're getting into what it's like to experience the death penalty in America right now. |
| 0:35.2 | We are not explicit, but we are specific. |
| 0:38.8 | All right, here's the show. |
| 0:43.0 | Liz, how many executions have you attended? |
| 0:47.0 | Liz, how many executions have you attended? |
| 0:51.0 | Wow, at this point, let's see, four executions, an autopsy of an executed man and a couple of those executions were botched and |
| 1:06.9 | failed. That seems really brutal and I have I have one coming up in December as |
| 1:12.3 | well. |
| 1:13.0 | Liz Brunig is a writer at the Atlantic. |
| 1:16.0 | For the last few years, the casual cruelty of the death penalty |
| 1:20.0 | has been an obsession of hers. |
| 1:22.0 | She has submitted letter after letter to corrections officials |
| 1:25.2 | all over the country, asking to observe executions. A lot of the time she gets turned down. |
| 1:33.0 | She keeps track of each inmate anyway. |
| 1:35.0 | My kitchen wall is a chalkboard |
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