The Death Penalty: Our National Debate Intensifies — Podcast July 28, 2014


Lethal Injection: Incompetence In the Service Of Barbarism? Democratic Perspective’s Mike Cosentino, Gary LaMaster, and Steve Williamson investigate the roots of the political infighting which led us to the recent spate of botched executions by lethal injection in Ohio, Oklahoma and our own state, Arizona. Why is it now taking two hours to execute a convicted murderer, and what do these dismal spectacles say about our ideas of justice, vengeance, and the proper role of politics in making life and death decisions?

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