Podcasts about Death Penalty Information Center

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing squad has been used in the U.S., and comes as the Trump administration works to expand capital punishment. Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

President Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row who will stay in prison for life but will not be subject to executions. Biden's move is likely motivated by the incoming Trump administration's expected hard line policy shift on federal executions. Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

* Trump's Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Frightened GOP Senators; Heather Digby Parton, a contributing writer to Salon.com; Producer: Scott Harris. * Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats' Multiple Failures; Ralph Nader America's leading public interest lawyer & four-time independent presidential candidate; Producer: Scott Harris. * Human Rights, Religious Groups Call on Biden to Clear Federal Death Row Before Trump Takes Office; Robin Maher, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center; Producer: Melinda Tuhus

The death penalty is a fixture of the American penal system – with 27 states still implementing it. Since it was reinstated in 1976, there have been 1,600 prisoners and counting executed as a punishment. Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, joins Gavin Esler to discuss the use of capital punishment in the United States. What is the history of this penalty – and what is its future? We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit.     • Get tickets for Levitation, the annual festival of electronic music and ideas presented by friends of the pod Castles In Space, at Bedford Esquires on Sat 5 Oct. And here's a taster playlist of who's on. www.patreon.com/bunkercast     Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unless the courts intervene, a death-row inmate in Alabama is scheduled on Thursday to become the first person in the U.S. to be executed using an untested method: nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama's solicitor general has called it "painless and humane," but the UN Human RIghts Office says it could amount to torture. John Yang speaks with the Death Penalty Information Center's Robin Maher to learn more. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

*Guest Hosts Taylor Morgan & Marty Carpenter Utah is the latest state to execute someone by firing squad, and the state might kill another man by the same method. Taylor and Marty unpack the unique history of Utah's relationship with the death penalty, and they bring on Robin Maher, Executive Director of The Death Penalty Information Center, to provide some national context. 

"The activists need to pay attention to mass awareness. Political change is a function of gaining political power through mass awareness, mass mobilization, and mass unification. And we're in a period on the left right now, which has happened in history before, where there's a lot of internal focus about the fairness of the processes within NGOs and activist organizations. And the legacy of racism in these organizations and gender and identity issues, all of which are essential and important and valid, but those are not the pathways to mass awareness and mass unity. If you overemphasize those kinds of issues, it's a kind of sectarianism, which is the opposite of how you unify people to get political power. If you don't assemble majority support - majority sentiment doesn't mean everybody - it means majority, then you can't take power. And if you can't get power, guess what? You can't help the vulnerable. You can't help the oppressed. This is, like most things in life, a question of balance. If you overfocus on the legitimate feelings and plight of subgroups of the population, by necessity, you won't establish what Reverend Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition. And without the Rainbow Coalition, you don't win. So, what I hope is that the scientists and the activist community can pay as much attention to cognitive science as they do to climate science. And then we'll get somewhere definitely."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

"So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

"The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

"The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."The activists need to pay attention to mass awareness. Political change is a function of gaining political power through mass awareness, mass mobilization, and mass unification. And we're in a period on the left right now, which has happened in history before, where there's a lot of internal focus about the fairness of the processes within NGOs and activist organizations. And the legacy of racism in these organizations and gender and identity issues, all of which are essential and important and valid, but those are not the pathways to mass awareness and mass unity. If you overemphasize those kinds of issues, it's a kind of sectarianism, which is the opposite of how you unify people to get political power. If you don't assemble majority support - majority sentiment doesn't mean everybody - it means majority, then you can't take power. And if you can't get power, guess what? You can't help the vulnerable. You can't help the oppressed. This is, like most things in life, a question of balance. If you overfocus on the legitimate feelings and plight of subgroups of the population, by necessity, you won't establish what Reverend Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition. And without the Rainbow Coalition, you don't win. So, what I hope is that the scientists and the activist community can pay as much attention to cognitive science as they do to climate science. And then we'll get somewhere definitely."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

"So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

"The activists need to pay attention to mass awareness. Political change is a function of gaining political power through mass awareness, mass mobilization, and mass unification. And we're in a period on the left right now, which has happened in history before, where there's a lot of internal focus about the fairness of the processes within NGOs and activist organizations. And the legacy of racism in these organizations and gender and identity issues, all of which are essential and important and valid, but those are not the pathways to mass awareness and mass unity. If you overemphasize those kinds of issues, it's a kind of sectarianism, which is the opposite of how you unify people to get political power. If you don't assemble majority support - majority sentiment doesn't mean everybody - it means majority, then you can't take power. And if you can't get power, guess what? You can't help the vulnerable. You can't help the oppressed. This is, like most things in life, a question of balance. If you overfocus on the legitimate feelings and plight of subgroups of the population, by necessity, you won't establish what Reverend Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition. And without the Rainbow Coalition, you don't win. So, what I hope is that the scientists and the activist community can pay as much attention to cognitive science as they do to climate science. And then we'll get somewhere definitely."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."When I say 'Make America Great Again', everybody probably cringes and I do too, but we have to learn from that. That is actually how the brain works. It works through being exposed to the repetition of simple, easy-to-understand messages that have an emotional, moral aspect. That's how the brain learns. It doesn't learn from facts. It doesn't learn from figures. It doesn't learn from policy pronouncements. And it certainly doesn't learn from complexity. Here's an example. People need to be conscious of the difference between internal and external communications. So, if you want to say that you believe in intersectional environmentalism, that's valid within your group. But if you use that in your public communication, no one understands what the hell you mean by that, not at all. Second, you're branding yourself as an other. You're not part of their world. You don't understand them. You have some weird agenda of your own, and you're incomprehensible. I hope my book makes a contribution to helping activists learn the difference between what the communists used to call an internal line and an external line. You know, the communists had a lot of things wrong, but that they were right about.”https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

"When I say 'Make America Great Again', everybody probably cringes and I do too, but we have to learn from that. That is actually how the brain works. It works through being exposed to the repetition of simple, easy-to-understand messages that have an emotional, moral aspect. That's how the brain learns. It doesn't learn from facts. It doesn't learn from figures. It doesn't learn from policy pronouncements. And it certainly doesn't learn from complexity. Here's an example. People need to be conscious of the difference between internal and external communications. So, if you want to say that you believe in intersectional environmentalism, that's valid within your group. But if you use that in your public communication, no one understands what the hell you mean by that, not at all. Second, you're branding yourself as an other. You're not part of their world. You don't understand them. You have some weird agenda of your own, and you're incomprehensible. I hope my book makes a contribution to helping activists learn the difference between what the communists used to call an internal line and an external line. You know, the communists had a lot of things wrong, but that they were right about.”How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

➧ Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, avoiding trial⁠https://www.reuters.com/legal/dominions-defamation-case-against-fox-poised-trial-after-delay-2023-04-18/⁠ It committed $3 billion to buy back shares in the first quarter after revenues beat estimates. Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch told Wall Street analysts in February that the company had about $4 billion cash on hand. ➧ Fighting rages in Sudan hours after cease-fire was due to begin. (2023, April 18). France 24. ⁠https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230418-sudanese-army-rival-forces-agree-to-24-hour-ceasefire-as-conflict-enters-fourth-day⁠ ➧ Senate Dems wrestle with Feinstein resignation chatter. (2023, April 18). POLITICO. ⁠https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/senate-dems-feinstein-resignation-00092555⁠ Missed 75% of her votes ➧ Republicans block effort to replace Feinstein on judiciary panel. (2023, April 18). NPR. ⁠https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170624504/mcconnell-says-republicans-will-block-effort-to-replace-feinstein-on-judiciary-p⁠ ➧

➧  Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, avoiding trialhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/dominions-defamation-case-against-fox-poised-trial-after-delay-2023-04-18/ It committed $3 billion to buy back shares in the first quarter after revenues beat estimates. Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch told Wall Street analysts in February that the company had about $4 billion cash on hand. ➧ Fighting rages in Sudan hours after cease-fire was due to begin. (2023, April 18). France 24. https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230418-sudanese-army-rival-forces-agree-to-24-hour-ceasefire-as-conflict-enters-fourth-day  ➧ Senate Dems wrestle with Feinstein resignation chatter. (2023, April 18). POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/senate-dems-feinstein-resignation-00092555  Missed 75% of her votes ➧ Republicans block effort to replace Feinstein on judiciary panel. (2023, April 18). NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170624504/mcconnell-says-republicans-will-block-effort-to-replace-feinstein-on-judiciary-p  ➧

Nine prisoners have been executed in the United States in 2023, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Yet the number of death sentences in the country has steadily decreased in recent decades, from more than 300 annually in the mid-1990s to fewer than 30 in recent years. This is thanks, in part, to the work of a small group of little-known professionals known as mitigation specialists. Their mission? Mercy. Sara Baldwin is a mitigation specialist in Florida. Her job is to dig deep into the lives of people who commit murder, to find out who they were before they committed a terrible crime, and how did they become the kind of person who would? Mitigation specialists do this in order to convince juries, judges and prosecutors to bestow mercy — often in the form of a life sentence instead of a death sentence. Maurice Chammah, staff writer at The Marshall Project, spent three years shadowing Sara Baldwin and her work on a particular case. Both join us for this conversation.  Read Maurice's latest piece about Sara's work for The Marshall Project: "The Mercy Workers."

Nine prisoners have been executed in the United States in 2023, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Yet the number of death sentences in the country has steadily decreased in recent decades, from more than 300 annually in the mid-1990s to fewer than 30 in recent years. This is thanks, in part, to the work of a small group of little-known professionals known as mitigation specialists. Their mission? Mercy. Sara Baldwin is a mitigation specialist in Florida. Her job is to dig deep into the lives of people who commit murder, to find out who they were before they committed a terrible crime, and how did they become the kind of person who would? Mitigation specialists do this in order to convince juries, judges and prosecutors to bestow mercy — often in the form of a life sentence instead of a death sentence. Maurice Chammah, staff writer at The Marshall Project, spent three years shadowing Sara Baldwin and her work on a particular case. Both join us for this conversation.  Read Maurice's latest piece about Sara's work for The Marshall Project: "The Mercy Workers."

At the urging of Governor Ron DeSantis, the Legislature is considering proposed legislation that will lead to more death sentences in Florida. Robert Dunham, the former Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, joined Robert to discuss the bills and what they mean for the death penalty in Florida.Robert Dunham is a nationally recognized expert on the death penalty with more than 25 years of capital litigation experience.   Bills related to nonunanimous death recommendations: You can read the latest version (3/8/23) of house bill 555 here and follow the changes here.You can read the latest version (3/8/23) of senate bill 450 here and follow the changes here.  Bills related to imposing the death penalty for child sexual battery:You can read the latest version (3/1/23) of house bill 1297 here and follow changes to the bill here.You can read the latest version (3/1/23) of senate bill 1342 here and follow changes to the bill here. Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) (hold the Eighth Amendment bars Louisiana from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death). Listen.  Enjoy.  Subscribe.  Share.Please send your questions and comments to summarilypod@gmail.com. 

"this episode is turning into 'how to become a better serial killer'" This week, we discuss some of the history of the death penalty, and our opinions on it. We would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to get in touch. Information was gathered from the Death Penalty Information Center. As of February 16, the new governor of PA, Josh Shapiro, has refused to sign execution warrants and is pushing to abolish the death penalty in PA. https://apnews.com/article/josh-shapiro-crime-pennsylvania-state-government-legal-proceedings-tom-wolf-888585cae5ffdd0c5e7acad635501db3 Email: thetruthsleuthspod@gmail.com Instagram: @thetruthsleuths Youtube: The Truth Sleuths Alex's YouTube: Alexisme12

In the late 1960s David Fenton was a photojournalist, for Liberation News Service while also publishing in the NY Times, Life, Newsweek and others. In 1978 David was the director of Public Relations at Rolling Stone magazine. He was co-producer of the "No Nukes" concerts with Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and many others in New York City, 1979. In 1982 David founded Fenton Communications to promote issue-oriented public relations campaigns focusing on the environment, public health and human rights. Since founding the company, he pioneered the use of professional P.R. and advertising techniques by not-for-profit public interest groups in the United States and around the world David also co-founded three independent not-for-profit organizations including the Death Penalty Information Center, which helps journalists cover evidence of innocence and racial bias in the death penalty system. David has just released his latest publication "The Activist's Media Handbook, Lessons From Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator" which discusses how to organize social media campaigns

Last week, a jury in Broward County, Florida decided against the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz.  The decision was met with outrage by many and relief by some.  On this episode, Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center joins the podcast to discuss the facts and myths about the death penalty and to explain the Cruz verdict.Robert Dunham is the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.  He is a nationally recognized expert on the death penalty with more than 25 years of experience as a capital litigator.  The Death Penalty Information Center is a national non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.  Founded in 1990, the Center promotes informed discussion of the death penalty by preparing in-depth reports, conducting briefings for journalists, and serving as a resource to those working on this issue. Listen.  Enjoy.  Subscribe.  Share.Please send your questions and comments to summarilypod@gmail.com. 

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there are currently 103 foreign nationals under a sentence of death in the U.S.  What happens when a foreign national finds themselves face to face with the ultimate criminal penalty in the United States?  What entities are involved?  Which laws apply? How does this intersect with international treaties and extradition?To help us understand the situation better, we have on the show today, Patrick F. McCann.  Patrick is a retired former Navy officer, with both active and Reserve service.  He has served as the  President of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association and as a  Director of the Fort Bend County Criminal Lawyers Association.  He handles all manner of trial, appellate, and post-conviction matters at the state and federal level, including complex white collar and drug cases.  

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Works Cited“Case File.” Picking Cotton | a Memoir by Jennifer Thompson & Ronald Cotton with ErinTorneo, www.pickingcottonbook.com/case-file.O'Neil, Helen. “The Perfect Witness.” Death Penalty Information Center, 2001,deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/the-perfect-witness.Poptech. “Thompon & Cotton Forgive.” YouTube, 19 Jan. 2011,www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7MrfJ7X_c. Accessed 20 Nov. 2020.“Ronald Cotton Celebrates 24th Exoneration Anniversary.” Innocence Project,innocenceproject.org/cases/ronald-cotton/.Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer, et al. Picking Cotton : Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption.New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.

Rebecca, Monica, Alison, and Liz discuss the religious liberty issues arising in death penalty cases. Since 2019, questions about what religious liberty rights are afforded to those sentenced to death at the moment of their execution have been featured at the high court. Rebecca walks us through four notable cases on this issue and the hosts discuss what it means for religious liberty cases overall.   Background “Court blocks execution, will weigh in on inmate's religious-liberty claims” Death Penalty Information Center poll Relevant Cases Furman v. Georgia Dunn v. Ray ”Divided court allows Alabama execution to go forward” Murphy v. Collier “Supreme Court intervenes in execution of Buddhist prisoner” Gutierrez v. Collier “Justices block Texas execution” Dunn v. Smith “Court won't allow Alabama execution without a pastor” Ramirez v. Collier Coalition amicus brief

Town Square with Ernie Manouse airs at 3 p.m. CT. Tune in on 88.7FM, listen online or subscribe to the podcast. Join the discussion at 888-486-9677, questions@townsquaretalk.org or @townsquaretalk. As the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas, Melissa Lucio spent 15 years on death row. With other cases that show similarities to Melissa Lucio's story, what might they say about a pattern of prosecution and conviction?  In particular, how are women impacted? Some believe there seem to be structural problems in the criminal justice system and a pattern of poor, abused women getting convicted and sentenced due to discretionary power of prosecutors. Could it be that when it's up to the prosecutors to seek the death penalty, poor people don't get defense? In this conversation, we talk with a spiritual advisor and activist, who has been educating the public about the death penalty for over 30 years and author of  the book “Dead Man Walking”. Also, we hear from an expert from the Death Penalty Information Center. Guests: Sister Helen Prejean Author, spiritual advisor and death penalty activist Ngozi Ndulue Deputy Director, Death Penalty Information Center Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues. Audio from today's show will be available after 5 p.m. CT. We also offer a free podcast here, on iTunes, and other apps.

Works Cited“A ‘Perfect Storm' of Injustice—Death-Row Prisoner Christopher Williams Exonerated in Philadelphia Murder Case.” Death Penalty Information Center, 24 Jan. 2020, deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/a-perfect-storm-of-injustice-death-row-prisoner-christopher-williams-exonerated-in-philadelphia-murder-case. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.Capital-Star, Special to the, et al. “Exonerated Philly Death Row Inmate Files Civil Suit against Cops, Prosecutor Who Sent Him to Prison.” Pennsylvania Capital-Star, 2 Dec. 2021, www.penncapital-star.com/criminal-justice/exonerated-philly-death-row-inmate-files-civil-suit-against-cops-prosecutor-who-sent-him-to-prison/. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.“Christopher Williams – National Registry of Exonerations.” Umich.edu, 2019, www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5669. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.“Christopher Williams Exonerated after 25 Years on PA's Death Row.” Witnesstoinnocence, 10 Feb. 2021, www.witnesstoinnocence.org/single-post/christopher-williams-exonerated-after-25-years-on-pa-s-death-row. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.“Conviction Integrity Unit.” Office of the District Attorney : City of Philadelphia, phillyda.org/safety-and-justice/investigations/conviction-integrity-unit-ciu/. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.“Conviction Integrity Units.” Www.law.umich.edu, www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Conviction-Integrity-Units.aspx.Melamed, Samantha. “Accused of 6 Murders, Philly Man Spent 25 Years on Death Row. Now, His Record Is Cleared.” Https://Www.inquirer.com, 9 Feb. 2021, www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-conviction-integrity-christopher-williams-exoneree-20210210.html. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.—. “Philly Prosecutors Used a Jailhouse Snitch to Convict Two Men of an '89 Triple Murder. Now, His Lies Are Unraveling.” Https://Www.inquirer.com, 8 Jan. 2020, www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-exoneration-christopher-williams-theophalis-wilson-20200106.html&outputType=app-web-view. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.—. “The Battle in Philly DA's Office: Conviction Integrity Unit Report Shows Rocky Path to Reform.” Www.msn.com, 15 June 2021, www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-battle-in-philly-s-da-s-office-conviction-integrity-unit-report-shows-rocky-path-to-reform/ar-AAL4KJ1#:~:text=Since%20District%20Attorney%20Larry%20Krasner%20took%20office%20in. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Robert Dunham, the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center to discuss the controversy surrounding the execution of Ernest Lee Johnson, an intellectually disabled man who was convicted of murder in Missouri, how this case further exposes the brutality of the death penalty and states' wielding of it, the growing shift in attitudes against the death penalty among the public and politicians alike, and the disproportionate use of the death penalty against working and poor people of color and the most vulnerable in our society.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by K.J. Noh, a geopolitical analyst, a member of Veterans for Peace, and senior correspondent with Flashpoints on KPFA to discuss tensions between the US and China over military activities concerning Taiwan, how the new orientation of the US toward Taiwan plays into the cold war drive against China, Taiwan's historical use as a pawn against the People's Republic of China, and how China's actions are leveraged to attack China and defend the neoliberal world order.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie discuss Dave Chappelle's unfunny Netflix comedy special “The Closer,” his bizarre, victim-blaming comments on the #MeToo movement, how his humor aimed at the LGBTQ community compares to racist jokes, and how the discourse of acrimony between the LGBTQ and Black communities is flawed.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Netfa Freeman, Coordinating Committee member with the Black Alliance for Peace, organizer with Pan-African Community Action, and host of Voices with Vision on WPFW 89.3 FM to discuss efforts to end the use of the qualified immunity defense to protect police officers from civil suits, how the militarization of police is the consequence of imperialism abroad, especially in Africa, the connections between policing in capital exposed in the corporate financing of police foundations, and the incessant American decline.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Robert Dunham, the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center to discuss the controversy surrounding the execution of Ernest Lee Johnson, an intellectually disabled man who was convicted of murder in Missouri, how this case further exposes the brutality of the death penalty and states' wielding of it, the growing shift in attitudes against the death penalty among the public and politicians alike, and the disproportionate use of the death penalty against working and poor people of color and the most vulnerable in our society.

New Generation podcast hosts Tanner Mondok and Janeé Avery interview Herald editor Jeff Gerritt to discuss The Herald's upcoming editorial, the "Crime of Punishment: How and why executions are becoming rarer in the United States."This week's special guests include Robert Dunham, the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center. A nationally recognized expert on the death penalty, Dunham has 25 years of experience as a capital litigator and teacher of death penalty law, including arguing in the United States Supreme Court. In this candid conversation, Dunham covers what systematic problems encompass the death penalty.

In July 2020, the death penalty attracted national attention when the Trump Administration and the Department of Justice reinstituted federal executions for the first time in more than 17 years. Ultimately, the administration carried out an unprecedented 13 executions in six months. The death penalty continues to make headlines today amid several recent important developments. In this episode, WilmerHale podcast co-host and Partner http://auth.wilmerhale.com.verndale-prod.com/en/people/john-walsh (John Walsh) welcomes Partner http://auth.wilmerhale.com.verndale-prod.com/en/people/seth-waxman (Seth Waxman) and guest Professor https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10840/Steiker (Carol Steiker) for an in-depth discussion of the death penalty in America.  Waxman, who is the co-chair of WilmerHale's http://auth.wilmerhale.com.verndale-prod.com/en/solutions/appellate-and-supreme-court-litigation (Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice), served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 through January 2001. He is one of the country's foremost appellate advocates, including in death penalty cases. He has represented death row inmates over the course of 36 years while in private law practice, and has argued and won several death penalty cases in the US Supreme Court. Those victories include Roper v. Simmons, in which the Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. Most recently, Waxman was part of a team of WilmerHale lawyers who represented Wes Purkey, a federal inmate who was executed in July 2020.    Steiker is the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard faculty sponsor of the Capital Punishment Clinic. She served as the faculty co-director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program from 2015–2020. A former law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Professor Steiker focuses on criminal justice, with an emphasis on issues related to capital punishment. She is an author on death penalty matters, including the recent book Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, which she co-authored with her brother Jordan Steiker, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law.  Links: Carol Steiker's books, https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10840/Steiker (Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment) and Criminal Procedure Stories: An In-Depth Look at Leading Criminal Procedure Cases Charles L. Black, Jr.'s book, https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Punishment-Inevitability-Caprice-Mistake/dp/0393952894 (Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/725/608/57969/ (Jack Carlton House case) https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/ (Death Penalty Information Center) (see page about https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/race (Race and the death penalty)) https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/02/most-americans-favor-the-death-penalty-despite-concerns-about-its-administration/ (Most Americans Favor the Death Penalty Despite Concerns About Its Administration) (Pew Research Center) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55236260 (In Trump's final days, a rush of federal executions) (BBC) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-pushes-boston-marathon-bomber-death-sentence-2021-06-15/ (Biden administration pushes for Boston Marathon bomber death sentence) (Reuters) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/17/south-carolina-law-death-row-inmates-firing-squad-electric-chair (South Carolina: new law makes inmates choose firing squad or electric chair) (The Guardian) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/garland-orders-halt-federal-executions-official/story?id=78621507 (Garland orders halt to any further federal executions) (ABC News)

In 1985, 3 members of the Eastburn family were found brutally murdered on Mother's Day. The police found one sole survivor in the home, and investigators find ample evidence suggesting once man committed the crime. So why did Timothy Hennis go through 3 trials? How did the military beat double jeopardy? Listen in to find out. Sources “Death Row Stories: Tim Hennis.” CNN, Cable News Network, 18 July 2014, www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/us/gallery/death-row-stories-hennis/index.html. Dooley, Sean. “Survivor of Triple Murder Grapples With Guilt: 'Why Didn't He Kill Me?'.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 15 Sept. 2010, abcnews.go.com/US/gary-jana-eastburns-nightmare-odyssey-convict-familys-killer/story?id=11644539. Mims, Bryan. “Father, Daughter Tell of Pain 1985 Triple Murder Caused.” WRAL.com, WRAL, 9 Apr. 2010, www.wral.com/news/state/story/7390917/. Mims, Bryan. “Husband and Father of Murder Victims Wants to Move on after Court-Martial.” WRAL.com, WRAL, 19 Apr. 2010, www.wral.com/news/local/story/7447165/. “News Brief - Recent Death-Penalty Decisions Through March 6.” Death Penalty Information Center, 6 Mar. 2020, deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/news-developments-recent-death-penalty-decisions-through-march-6. Paparella, Andrew, and Alice Gomstyn . “Ex-Soldier Convicted Twice of Eastburn Triple Murder Appeals Again.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 31 Aug. 2011, abcnews.go.com/US/soldier-convicted-eastburn-triple-murder-appeals/story?id=14421102. Paparella, Andrew. “At 3rd Trial, Sergeant Guilty of 1985 Triple Murder.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 8 Apr. 2010, abcnews.go.com/2020/3rd-trial-master-sgt-timothy-hennis-guilty-1985/story?id=10324918. Paparella, Andrew. “For 2nd Time, Man Sentenced to Death for Murders.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 17 Sept. 2010, abcnews.go.com/2020/timothy-hennis-guilty-1985-triple-murder-trial/story?id=11652956. Schmidle, Nicholas. “Three Trials for Murder.” The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2011, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder. “Timothy Hennis Timeline.” The Fayetteville Observer, The Fayetteville Observer, 3 Feb. 2014, web.archive.org/web/20201119092623/www.fayobserver.com/article/20140203/news/302039705. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES. www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/opinions/2019OctTerm/170263.pdf. Waggoner, Martha. “25 Years Later, Widower Recalls Slain Family.” The Seattle Times, The Seattle Times Company, 25 Apr. 2010, www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/25-years-later-widower-recalls-slain-family/. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melancholiapodcast/support

Join us this week as we head to Tennessee and discuss Pervis Payne, a man on death row who may be innocent and is set to be executed in a few months. So buckle up and join us on this dark and twisted ride through the Volunteer State. CW: Mention of Drug Use, Murder of Children, and Physical Violence. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and leave a review. If you send us a screenshot with your address we will mail you a sticker! Also, if you have a personal true crime story that you'd like us to read on an upcoming episode, email us at unitedstatesofmurder@gmail.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! Check out our website www.unitedstatesofmurder.com Sources: Innocent Project, Tennessean,WMC 5 News, Death Penalty Information Center, Floods of Justice, Deviant: The Podcast, Cornell Law School, The Appeal, Impact of Murder (PREVIEW) - Available on ID Go "My Lacie" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unitedstatesofmurder/support

Dustin Higgs has been on federal death row for two decades for the murder of three young women, but the man who shot all three is serving a life sentence. Higgs is scheduled to be executed on January 15th. On January 12th, a federal judge halted his execution due to his COVID-19 diagnoses, but experts say he's not out of the woods yet. The Trump administration has carried out 11 executions of federal death row inmates in its final months - three during its lame duck period, which hasn’t happened in over 130 years. Dustin Higgs and Cory Johnson are scheduled for execution before President-Elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20th. Karina speaks to Higgs’ lawyer, Shawn Nolan, before and after the stay was issued, and we hear about the mad dash for clemency in the final days before Friday, January 15th. We also hear from Robert Dunham, the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, who notes, “you can’t take race out of the death penalty.”Links:AP: US inmate Scheduled to be Executed Tests Positive for VirusDeath Penalty Info Center 2020 ReportDeath Penalty Info Center Sept. 2020 Report: Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty“Killing Richard Glossip” - watch now on discovery+Hotline: 1-888-9 RED FLA / (188)-973-3352 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, hosts Gabi (@gabi.vasquez) and Jessica (@realkoko_) are BOTHERED by the death penalty and the injustices that result from systemic racism and traditional politics. The death penalty is STILL a thing, and we're ready to serve facts and opinions on this controversial and prevalent topic that continues to permeate the legal system. In honor of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois, BOTHERED PODCAST will be donating 100% of our sponsorship profits to the Innocence Project (www.innocenceproject.org). To get involved in Texas, visit the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty website (tcadp.org). To learn more about our sources, please visit the following: “Abolish Capitalism's Racist Death Penalty!” Moratorium Debate in Illinois: Abolish Capitalism's Racist Death Penalty!, www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/DPPR59.html. Carrega, Christina. “Two Black Men Have Been Executed within Two Days. Two More Are Set to Die before Biden's Inauguration.” CNN, Cable News Network, 12 Dec. 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/12/12/us/brandon-bernard-alfred-bourgeois-executions/index.html. Costello, Carol. “Can You Be pro-Life and pro-Death Penalty?” CNN, Cable News Network, 28 May 2014, www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/opinion/costello-pro-life-pro-death-penalty/index.html. “Death Penalty.” Legal Information Institute, Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu/wex/death_penalty. “Race.” Death Penalty Information Center, 15 Sept. 2020, deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/race. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/botheredpodcast/support

*Trump's Deadly 'Herd Immunity' Policies Aimed to Infect Millions of Americans; William Rivers Pitt, Senior Editor and Lead Columnist with Truthout.org; Producer: Scott Harris *In a Cruel Last Act, Trump Goes All in on Federal Executions; Ngozi Ndulue is Senior Director of Research and Special Projects at the Death Penalty Information Center; Producer: Melinda Tuhus *Progressive Group Launches "No Honeymoon For Biden" Campaign; Jeff Cohen, co-founder of the online activism group, RootsAction.org; Producer: Scott Harris

Death Penalty Information Center's Ngozi Ndulue: In a Cruel Last Act, Trump Orders Record-Breaking Wave of Federal ExecutionsRootsAction's Jeff Cohen: "No Honeymoon For Biden" Campaign Demands New Administration Adopt Progressive Policy SolutionsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • Trump’s parting gift to Morocco • Biden's agriculture secretary is what's wrong with Democratic Party • JPMorgan Chase wrongfully charges 170,000 customers overdraft fees

Executions and death sentences reached historic lows this year, a trend that was on pace even before COVID-19 brought most trials and executions to a halt. We speak with the director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which just released its annual report. And, even people who portray Santa are finding creative ways to connect with others safely during the pandemic. Tom Carmody, a Santa in Colorado, joins us.

In this episode the first 18:00 minutes Sid and Hunter discuss the meaning of an omniliberal and how one should strive to appeal to the younger people of this country as their political intelligence is not entirely made up and still has room to change. The rest of the episode looks at the death penalty in the US should it be legal? if it is legal can it still be immoral? Hunter gives some data from the Death Penalty Information Center to help guide the discussion. Take a listen on all of your favorite podcasting platforms! Make sure to like and follow! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/2commoners/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/2commoners/support

In Episode 3, Cody Duran talks with Tamara Brady, a Colorado Public Defense Attorney specializing in Capital Punishment cases. Cody and Tamara discuss the history of the Death Penalty in the United States, and how race, as it has with most areas in the Criminal Justice system, has continued to play a role in both the prosecution and imposition of the Death Penalty. The current case law allows for the Death Penalty, and about 25 states plus the federal government still use the Death Penalty, and continues to use it in disproportionate numbers against African American and other minority communities.Cases DiscussedFurman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) (holding the imposition of the Death Penalty in three Georgia cases violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment because its application was arbitrary and capricious).Georgia v. Gregg, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) (holding the imposition of the Death Penalty with additional structured requirements in the revised Georgia statute did not violate the Eighth Amendment).McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987) (holding that defendant must show purposeful discrimination to establish Equal Protection claims under the 14th Amendment).Ring v. Arizona, (application of Apprendi v. New Jersey, to Capital Cases; requiring juries to find aggravating and mitigating factors in the sentencing phase of a capital case).Other SourcesMeg Beardsley, Sam Kamin, Justin Marceau & Scott Phillips, Disquieting Discretion: Race, Geography & the Colorado Death Penalty in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century (2015).Death Penalty Information Center (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org)

In Episode 3, Cody Duran talks with Tamara Brady, a Colorado Public Defense Attorney specializing in Capital Punishment cases. Cody and Tamara discuss the history of the Death Penalty in the United States, and how race, as it has with most areas in the Criminal Justice system, has continued to play a role in both the prosecution and imposition of the Death Penalty. The current case law allows for the Death Penalty, and about 25 states plus the federal government still use the Death Penalty, and continues to use it in disproportionate numbers against African American and other minority communities.Cases DiscussedFurman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972) (holding the imposition of the Death Penalty in three Georgia cases violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment because its application was arbitrary and capricious).Georgia v. Gregg, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) (holding the imposition of the Death Penalty with additional structured requirements in the revised Georgia statute did not violate the Eighth Amendment).McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987) (holding that defendant must show purposeful discrimination to establish Equal Protection claims under the 14th Amendment).Ring v. Arizona, (application of Apprendi v. New Jersey, to Capital Cases; requiring juries to find aggravating and mitigating factors in the sentencing phase of a capital case).Other SourcesMeg Beardsley, Sam Kamin, Justin Marceau & Scott Phillips, Disquieting Discretion: Race, Geography & the Colorado Death Penalty in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century (2015).Death Penalty Information Center (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org)

Listen to this episode to learn more about what the church teaches about the death penalty and ways you can take action. To learn more about on this topic, check out the link belows which are mentioned in this episode. Orlando Hall letter: https://catholicsmobilizing.salsalabs.org/orlandohalltrumpbarraction/index.html Respect Life Month Toolkit: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/respect-life (helpful even though it's the end of the month, good resources that can be used year-round!) Just Mercy Study Guide: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/just-mercy-catholic-study-guide National Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/action/pledge Summary of new study about race and the death penalty: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/posts/report-explores-death-penaltys-roots-slavery-and-lynching-cases-racial-bias-persist (full report from Death Penalty Information Center can be found here: https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/reports/Enduring-Injustice-Race-and-the-Death-Penalty-2020.pdf) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reclaimingsj/message

In the September 2020 episode of Discussions With DPIC, Native American Rights Fund senior staff attorney Joel Williams joins Death Penalty Information Center executive director Robert Dunham for a conversation about tribal sovereignty, the death penalty, and the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma. Williams, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, explains how 2020 has been a landmark year on the question of tribal sovereignty and the death penalty. He and Dunham discuss the impact of McGirt’s affirmance of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s sovereignty over lands within the historical borders of the Creek Reservation, including the voiding of the death sentence imposed in Oklahoma’s state courts on Creek citizen Patrick Dwayne Murphy. Williams then discusses the federal government’s “very troubling” disregard of native sovereignty less than a month later in scheduling and carrying out the execution of Navajo citizen Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row, over the opposition of the Navajo government and tribal leaders across the country.

What role does race play in capital punishment in the United States? Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Robert Dunham, joins us to sort through the facts of the death penalty in the U.S. Robert has served as a leading capital appellate lawyer in Pennsylvania, and shared how race, innocence, and geography are all culprits in a flawed criminal punishment system.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, takes a look at the federal death penalty resuming. "Last week, for the first time in nearly two decades, federal executions resumed at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, [Indiana]," the Indianapolis Star reported Wednesday. "After a 17-year hiatus, three men have been executed: Daniel Lewis Lee on July 14, Wesley Ira Purkey on July 16 and Dustin Lee Honken on July 17." Why now?Sara Dady, immigration attorney and former Democratic congressional candidate for Illinois, discusses Trump trying to prevent more categories of people from entering the US and escalating the measures used to track down and deport undocumented, and in some cases absolutely documented and legal, residents. Now he is attempting to exclude people who are in the US from the census. A memo he issued Tuesday directs the Census Bureau to exclude undocumented people from the apportionment base that will be calculated from the upcoming US Census.Kim Iversen, independent journalist and host of the Kim Iversen Show, tackles Operation Legend, in which a surge of federal forces have been sent to Kansas City, Missouri, and now will go to Chicago, Illinois, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Also, she discusses Democratic nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden's war of words with Trump. During a virtual town hall on Wednesday, Biden called Trump the first racist to be elected to the US presidency, while Trump responded later that day that he has "done more for Black Americans than anybody, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln." Do both get a big "F" for lying?

In this episode, I'll be discussing the history of murder, including the first evidence of a murder occurring, and punishments for murder throughout time. Next, I'll examine the most common motivations for murder and I'll look at some real life examples. Lastly, I'll discuss what reforms we can make to reduce the murder rate. Sources for this episode: Bonn, S. (2019). Understanding Serial Killer Ted Bundy. Psychology Today.* Definition. (2020). Definition of Murder. Merriam-Webster.* Dobuzinskis, A. (2019). Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' begins life term in Colorado 'Supermax' prison. WKZO.* Executions Overview. (2020). Executed but did not directly kill the victim. Death Penalty Information Center.* History.com Editors. (2020). Code of Hammurabi. History.* History.com Editors. (2020). Osama Bin Ladin. History.* Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (2006). Reducing Murder: A community Response. Homicide Center.* Kim, C., LeBlang, T. (1975). The Death Penalty in Traditional China. Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 5(77), 78-105.Luhnow, D., Cordoba, J. (2009). The Drug Lord Who Got Away. The Wall Street Journal.* MacLod, W. (1937). Police and Punishment Among Native American of the Plains. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 28(2), 181-201.Morrall, P. (2007). Murder and Society: Why Commit Murder? Crime and Justice.*  Murder. (2020). What is Murder? HG Legal Resources.* Paddy. (2019). Murder in the First Degree: A History. Paddy Hirsch.* Pruitt, S. (2018). Was This the First Murder Victim in History? History.* Reggio, M. (1997). History of the Death Penalty. PBS.* State by State. (2020). States with and without the death penalty – 2020. Death Penalty Information Center.* Violent Crime. (2020). Jacksonville FL Crime Rate 1999-2018. Macrotrends.* *Please email me at crisisofcrime@gmail.com for web addresses. The description box does not allow enough characters to include them. 

Robert Dunham executive director Death Penalty Information Center talks about capital punishment.

Rodney Reed is scheduled for execution on November 20, and the first federal executions in 16 years begin December 9. On this week's Kicker, Robert Dunham, executive director at the Death Penalty Information Center, and Kyle Pope, editor and pulisher of CJR, discuss the mistakes national and local reporters make in their coverage of the death penalty. Dunham explains the culture of fear that sustained American execution at its peak, and the importance of reporting policy over politics.

In the fall of 1989, in Vancouver, Washington, a short, 29 year-old man named Westley Allan Dodd raped and murdered three young boys. The boys were brothers Cole and William Neer, ages 10 and 11, and four year old Lee Iseli. Content Note:Sexual violence, suicide and capital punishmentA few weeks later, police arrested Westley at movie theater after he tried and failed to abduct another boy. He quickly confessed to the three murders. The prosecution sought the death penalty, and Dodd pled guilty.Death penalty cases take a long time due to all the appeals built into the process. These appeals are designed to make sure the state hasn't made any mistakes in the death sentence. They check for things like juror misconduct, incompetent defense lawyers, new evidence. Death penalty cases take years, sometimes decades.Westley Allan Dodd did not want that. Instead, he wanted to be executed as quickly as possible.In letters to the Supreme Court of Washington, Dodd urged the court to allow him to waive his right to appeal his death sentence. He believed he deserved to die for what he did, and wanted it done as soon as possible. Dodd was what's known as a “volunteer”–someone who gives up their rights in order to hasten their own execution. The Death Penalty Information Center cites about 150 cases of “volunteers” in the United States. Dodd's case sparked debate both among people who supported and opposed the death penalty. Some argued he had the right to choose whether the court would review the validity of his death sentence. Others argued that the law ensures that all defendants have due process whether they want it or not. In the meantime, Dodd continued to advocate for his own execution in interviews and in exchanges with his pen pals. He said he felt remorseful, and even wrote a self-defense booklet for kids to learn how to stay safe from men like him. The booklet was called “When You Meet A Stranger”.The debate made its way to the Washington Supreme Court. In a 7-2 ruling, they decided that Dodd did, in fact, have the right to waive his remaining appeals. After just three years on death row (5 years shorter than the national average at that time) the State of Washington hanged Westley Allan Dodd. On this episode Bethany Denton interviews Dodd's former attorney Gilbert Levy. And defense attorney Jeff Ellis, who was a young lawyer during the time of the Dodd trial. Bethany also talks to Becky Price, who was one of the recipients of Dodd's pamphlet “When You Meet A Stranger”.Producer: Bethany DentonEditor: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot

In the fall of 1989, in Vancouver, Washington, a short, 29 year-old man named Westley Allan Dodd raped and murdered three young boys. The boys were brothers Cole and William Neer, ages 10 and 11, and four year old Lee Iseli. Content Note:Sexual violence, suicide and capital punishmentA few weeks later, police arrested Westley at movie theater after he tried and failed to abduct another boy. He quickly confessed to the three murders. The prosecution sought the death penalty, and Dodd pled guilty.Death penalty cases take a long time due to all the appeals built into the process. These appeals are designed to make sure the state hasn’t made any mistakes in the death sentence. They check for things like juror misconduct, incompetent defense lawyers, new evidence. Death penalty cases take years, sometimes decades.Westley Allan Dodd did not want that. Instead, he wanted to be executed as quickly as possible.In letters to the Supreme Court of Washington, Dodd urged the court to allow him to waive his right to appeal his death sentence. He believed he deserved to die for what he did, and wanted it done as soon as possible. Dodd was what’s known as a “volunteer”–someone who gives up their rights in order to hasten their own execution. The Death Penalty Information Center cites about 150 cases of “volunteers” in the United States. Dodd’s case sparked debate both among people who supported and opposed the death penalty. Some argued he had the right to choose whether the court would review the validity of his death sentence. Others argued that the law ensures that all defendants have due process whether they want it or not. In the meantime, Dodd continued to advocate for his own execution in interviews and in exchanges with his pen pals. He said he felt remorseful, and even wrote a self-defense booklet for kids to learn how to stay safe from men like him. The booklet was called “When You Meet A Stranger”.The debate made its way to the Washington Supreme Court.  In a 7-2 ruling, they decided that Dodd did, in fact, have the right to waive his remaining appeals. After just three years on death row (5 years shorter than the national average at that time) the State of Washington hanged Westley Allan Dodd. On this episode Bethany Denton interviews  Dodd’s former attorney Gilbert Levy. And defense attorney Jeff Ellis, who was a young lawyer during the time of the Dodd trial.   Bethany also talks to Becky Price, who was one of the recipients of Dodd’s pamphlet  “When You Meet A Stranger”.Producer: Bethany DentonEditor: Jeff EmtmanMusic:  The Black Spot

In this episode of "Low of the Land," Jake Gray and Tiffany Jing analyze the justifications and impacts of the death penalty, assessing rationales such as retributivism, deterrence theory, and consequentialist readings of the law. The CULR podcasters are joined by Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, who addresses the arguments of death penalty advocates before evaluating the ways that the most harmful cases make their way up to the highest Court today. Tune in to hear more about the rates of wrongful convictions, Scalia counterfactuals, and more.

CA Death Penalty Moratorium & Do No Harm Act Recorded on 24 Mar 2019: Topics include CA Death Penalty Moratorium and Do No Harm Act Segment 1: CA Death Penalty Moratorium California death penalty: Governor Gavin Newsom to halt executions, BBC News, 13 Mar 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47549422 Death Penalty Information Center https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf There’s still no evidence […] The post Episode 014 appeared first on The Skeptic Heads.

CA Death Penalty Moratorium & Do No Harm Act Recorded on 24 Mar 2019: Topics include CA Death Penalty Moratorium and Do No Harm Act Segment 1: CA Death Penalty Moratorium California death penalty: Governor Gavin Newsom to halt executions, BBC News, 13 Mar 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47549422 Death Penalty Information Center https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf There’s still no evidence […] The post Episode 014 appeared first on The Skeptic Heads.

 Is the death penalty right or wrong? Should human beings really have the right to decide the life and death of another being? Let's talk about it for a NEW WokeNFree Wednesday episode. Don’t forget to share the episode and share your comments below! ----more---- "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment." - J.R.R. Tolkien   Episode Shout-out to Constitutional Rights Foundation, Amnesty International, Death Penalty Focus, and Death Penalty Information Center     Music Credits: Music Intro/Outro: “Thoughts” by Killah Smilez Music Outro: “Explained” by Killah Smilez Make sure you check out the Killah Smilez song on Amazon  Catch the music video by Killah Smilez HERE Want to share the episode? Please share the episode on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Soundcloud Don’t forget to subscribe to WokeNFree on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Google Play Do you want to join the show as a guest on an upcoming episode? Contact us HERE Don't forget to submit a scenario to us for SCENARIO TIME!    SCENARIO TIME: How would you respond to these scenarios in SCENARIO TIME? Let's chat HERE!  Have you reviewed our show yet? Pick your platform of choice HERE     Do you want to start a podcast? We are here to HELP! Schedule a FREE consultation with us HERE This post contains affiliate links. That means if you click on a link and buy something, WokeNFree will earn a small commission from the advertiser at no additional cost to you.

Leading litigators and scholars discussed professor Brandon L. Garrett's new book, "End Of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice." The book analyzes data on over two decades of death sentences to both explore causes of the decline in American death sentencing and its implications for the future of criminal justice reform. The panelists were death penalty lawyer David Bruck of Washington & Lee Law School; Robin Konrad of the Death Penalty Information Center; Evan Mandery of John Jay College and author of "A Wild Justice"; and Carol Steiker of Harvard Law School and the Criminal Justice Policy Program, and co-author of "Courting Justice." UVA Law professor Steve Braga served as moderator. (University of Virginia School of Law, February 22, 2018)

To die, to sleep — perchance to be judged no longer viable in society and sentenced to burn alive from within. Who is truly avenged by our cocktails of untested heartstoppers? Justices: why did we stop, then start, doing this again? Join us at the top of the scaffold of lies we tell ourselves, where we countenance barbarisms and watch the clock till it runs all the way out. SOURCES: - Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975): http://a.co/eerXzt2 ; - 60 Minutes, "The Execution of Joseph Wood" (Nov. 29, 2015): http://bit.ly/2kgmw8Z ; - Oklahoma's KFOR-TV on Clayton Lockett's botched execution (Apr. 29, 2014); reporter Courtney Francisco, eyewitnessing: https://youtu.be/d06awQ1L2TM ; - Furman v. Georgia (1972): http://bit.ly/2kIZ6bH ; - news clips on the decision in Furman v. Georgia: https://youtu.be/yeOykQHeRlY?t=2m23s ; - Gregg v. Georgia (1976): http://bit.ly/2kfGh0d ; - a cartoon on the case, produced (amazingly) by the Georgia State Bar: https://youtu.be/3-BNkWHmCqg ; - Bloody Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code ; http://bit.ly/2CB3Bwe - Two Treatises of Government, by John "Hornsbury" Locke (1689) ; - 30 for 30, Doc & Darryl (dir. Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio, 2016): http://es.pn/2ASRfPt ; - Glossip v. Gross (2015): http://bit.ly/2oGy6Pc ; - J. Alito, for the 5-4 majority: http://bit.ly/2oBvBh0 ; - J. Breyer, dissenting: http://bit.ly/2CZtAOU (& published in handsome volume here: http://a.co/7M59QDr) ; - Nino, concurring: http://bit.ly/2Bxk19L ; - J. Thomas, concurring: http://bit.ly/2BIRZua ; - Audio & transcipts of oral arguments (argued Apr. 29, 2015) on Oyez here: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-7955 ; - Death Penalty Information Center: deathpenaltyinfo.org; fact sheet: http://bit.ly/2yiSHKz ; - Don Delillo, Americana (1989): http://a.co/bhyKIYp ; - music from the episode: http://bit.ly/2kHBjbX ; FURTHER READING: - McGautha v. California (1971), in which J. Harlan, writing for the court (6-3), said: "To identify before the fact those characteristics of criminal homicides and their perpetrators which call for the death penalty, and to express these characteristics in language which can be fairly understood and applied by the sentencing authority, appear to be tasks which are beyond present human ability." http://bit.ly/2kIHVqH

Death penalty proponents have long asserted that capital punishment advances public safety by deterring murders, and this, they say, is especially true when it comes to protecting police officers. The Death Penalty Information Center recently conducted an analysis of murder data from 1987-2015 to determine whether the numbers support that claim. DPIC Fellow Seth Rose speaks with Executive Director Robert Dunham about the DPIC study and what it tells us about the relationship between murder rates, killings of police officers, and the death penalty.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 76th episode, our returning guest is Robert Dunham. You first heard Robert Dunham on Episode 59 of the podcast. Robert Dunham is an attorney and a nationally recognized expert on the death penalty. Before becoming the Death Penalty Information Center's Executive Director, he was one of the leading capital appellate lawyers in Pennsylvania, arguing on behalf of the Commonwealth's death-row inmates in its state and federal courts and in the United States Supreme Court. He served as Executive Director of the former Pennsylvania Capital Case Resource Center from 1994 to 1999; Director of Training of the Capital Habeas Unit of the Philadelphia federal defender's office from 1999 to 2009; and as an assistant federal defender in the Harrisburg federal defender's capital habeas unit from 2009 until March 2015. He started his legal career as a litigation associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia, where he handled his first pro bono capital case. He previously served five years as a legislative assistant to State Representative Robert W. O'Donnell, later the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He has taught in death penalty training programs offered by national, state and local courts, bar associations, and professional organizations for more than 20 years. He was an adjunct professor of law at Villanova Law School for 11 years, teaching death penalty law, and he has also taught death penalty at Temple Law School and as a visiting scholar at Oklahoma State University. He is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has served on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project and on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Philadelphia crime-victim assistance program, Northwest Victim Services, for whom he also served as Board President. A native of Philadelphia, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a University Scholar in philosophy. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he served as managing editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. At Georgetown, he received the Milton A. Kaufman Prize for outstanding contribution to the journal and the Jeffrey Crandall Award for commitment to public interest law. If you enjoy this podcast, there are several ways to support it. I have a Patreon account, which can be found at www.patreon.com/robburgessshowpatreon. I hope you'll consider supporting in any amount. Also please make sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Archive, TuneIn and RSS. The official website for the podcast is www.therobburgessshow.com. You can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com. Until next time.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 59th episode, our guest is Robert Dunham. Robert Dunham is an attorney and a nationally recognized expert on the death penalty. Before becoming the Death Penalty Information Center's Executive Director, he was one of the leading capital appellate lawyers in Pennsylvania, arguing on behalf of the Commonwealth's death-row inmates in its state and federal courts and in the United States Supreme Court. He served as Executive Director of the former Pennsylvania Capital Case Resource Center from 1994 to 1999; Director of Training of the Capital Habeas Unit of the Philadelphia federal defender's office from 1999 to 2009; and as an assistant federal defender in the Harrisburg federal defender's capital habeas unit from 2009 until March 2015. He started his legal career as a litigation associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia, where he handled his first pro bono capital case. He previously served five years as a legislative assistant to State Representative Robert W. O'Donnell, later the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He has taught in death penalty training programs offered by national, state and local courts, bar associations, and professional organizations for more than 20 years. He was an adjunct professor of law at Villanova Law School for 11 years, teaching death penalty law, and he has also taught death penalty at Temple Law School and as a visiting scholar at Oklahoma State University. He is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has served on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project and on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Philadelphia crime-victim assistance program, Northwest Victim Services, for whom he also served as Board President. A native of Philadelphia, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a University Scholar in philosophy. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he served as managing editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. At Georgetown, he received the Milton A. Kaufman Prize for outstanding contribution to the journal and the Jeffrey Crandall Award for commitment to public interest law. If you enjoy this podcast, there are several ways to support it. I have a Patreon account, which can be found at www.patreon.com/robburgessshowpatreon. I hope you'll consider supporting in any amount. Also please make sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Archive, TuneIn and RSS. The official website for the podcast is www.therobburgessshow.com. You can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com. Until next time.

Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses the latest developments in Arkansas' efforts to execute a number of death row inmates before the life-ending drugs expire at the end of April. He speaks with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses the latest developments in Arkansas' efforts to execute a number of death row inmates before the life-ending drugs expire at the end of April. He speaks with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Virginia Sloan, president and founder of the Constitution Project, and Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discuss the Supreme Court's decision forcing Texas to broaden its death-penalty exemption for people who are intellectually disabled. They speak with June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Virginia Sloan, president and founder of the Constitution Project, and Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discuss the Supreme Court's decision forcing Texas to broaden its death-penalty exemption for people who are intellectually disabled. They speak with June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

(Bloomberg) -- Virginia Sloan, president and founder of the Constitution Project, and Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discuss the Supreme Court's decision forcing Texas to broaden its death-penalty exemption for people who are intellectually disabled. They speak with June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

(Bloomberg) -- Virginia Sloan, president and founder of the Constitution Project, and Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discuss the Supreme Court's decision forcing Texas to broaden its death-penalty exemption for people who are intellectually disabled. They speak with June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses several state elections which upheld the death penalty is states across the United States. He speaks with Bloomberg's Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses several state elections which upheld the death penalty is states across the United States. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses several state elections which upheld the death penalty is states across the United States. He speaks with Bloomberg's Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses several state elections which upheld the death penalty is states across the United States. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Michael Best and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

Back in August of 2014, Lawyer 2 Lawyer hosted a show on the death penalty where we explored whether the death penalty was considered cruel and unusual with standout guests Judge Alex Kozinski from the United States Court of Appeals for The Ninth Circuit, exonerated death row survivor Ronald Keine from Witness to Innocence, and M*A*S*H actor Mike Farrell from Death Penalty Focus.  That episode focused on the merits of firing squads vs. lethal injections and corruption in the judicial system. Presently, the death penalty is the law in in 31 states and the debate continues. Today on Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we revisit the death penalty debate. Host, J. Craig Williams joins attorney Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center and Judge Alex Kozinski, who sits on the bench of the United States Court of Appeals for The Ninth Circuit. Robert and Judge Kozinski take a look at the death penalty debate within our society and in our courts, exploring forensics, the fate of the death penalty, and whether we will see the constitutionality of death penalty argued before the Supreme Court.

The Department of Defense has received backlash for spending taxpayer money to pay professional sports teams to do patriotic displays with veterans when what vets really need is better healthcare, jobs and affordable housing. In addition, the Death Penalty Information Center recently released a report revealing that about 300 U.S. veterans are currently on death row in prisons across the nation because the justice system has failed to take into account the impact PTSD and other mental issues can have when they return from combat. In light of Veterans Day, we'll question whether we are neglecting out vets from the services that they deserve.

One of the most challenging tasks in a criminal defense investigator's world is investigating a capital case that has already exhausted all of its appellate rights. Called a writ of habeas corpus, it is a death row inmate's last opportunity for to find relief from execution. There have been 144 death row exonerations since 1973, according to Death Penalty Information Center. Possibly the trial lawyer was ineffectual or incompetent, the defendant's constitutional rights were violated, or there may even be newly discovered evidence. Regardless of the situation, it is an uphill battle and mostly a thankless, but ever demanding responsibility. Tune in to hear Private Investigator Joseph Thornton, a former Philadelphia Capital Habeas Unit staff investigator discuss his daily life as a post-conviction capital case investigator.