Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: If The Victim Is White, Death Penalty MUCH More Likely - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-23-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Death Penalty - Love Is for the Rich
Ch. 4: Act 2: If You Support the Death Penalty, You're Probably White - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 04-01-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Fight to Win (feat. Cee Lo Green) - Fight to Win (feat. Cee Lo Green) - Single
Ch. 6: Act 3: Execution In Oklahoma - @MumiaAbuJamal - Air Date: 5-5-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: American Way - Essential Masters
Ch. 8: Act 4: Texas to try secret lethal drug in execution - Rachel @Maddow - Air Date: 5-12-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Close These Curtains - Behaving Like a Widower
Ch. 10: Act 5: Judgement On The Secret Cocktail - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 5-9-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: What Are We Doing Here? - Field Recordings, Vol. 04: Crown Demos Part 2
Ch. 12: Act 6: Court blocks Texas from killing prisoner - Rachel @maddow - Air Date 5-13-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Death Penalty - What's So Strange About Me
Ch. 14: Act 7: Shocking Percentage Of Death Row Inmates Are Innocent - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 05-03-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Can't Hide from the Truth - The Life and Time Of...
Ch. 16: Act 8: Fixing the death row system via @innocence - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 18: Act 9: Support for Death Penalty Lowest in 40 Years - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-31-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: A Change Is Gonna Come - Learning to Bend
Ch. 20: Act 10: Rick Perry Killed an Innocent Man - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 03-12-14
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Historical context of respectability politics - ? from Pittsburgh, PA
Ch. 22: Respectability politics = victim blaming - Sonya from Minnesota
Ch. 23: Jeff from theliberalcurmudgeon.com on how and why to support Best of the Left - Jeff from New York
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 24: Final comments on the next bonus episode on the consepts of self and free will
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM:
What Can I Do? from The Innocence Project
Sources/further reading:
"How Oklahoma's GOP Governor Turned a Heinous Killer Into a Death-Penalty Martyr” by Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones
VIDEO: "Execution Chaos: Witness Recounts Botched Killing That Caused Oklahoma Prisoner's Fatal Heart Attack” via Democracy Now!
"Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin defends controversial execution” by Meredith Clark via MSNBC
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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