{"id":1040,"date":"2020-12-04T17:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=132594"},"modified":"2020-12-04T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:49:37","slug":"liliana-segura-on-trumps-execution-spree-gaurav-laroia-on-ajit-pais-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/04\/liliana-segura-on-trumps-execution-spree-gaurav-laroia-on-ajit-pais-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Liliana Segura on Trump\u2019s Execution Spree, Gaurav Laroia on Ajit Pai\u2019s FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/audio\/counterspin\/CounterSpin201204.mp3\"><strong>MP3 Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9018902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9018902\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9018902\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Death-Penalty-Straps.jpg\" alt=\"Straps for restraining death penalty target.\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9018902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(<strong>BBC<\/strong>\/<strong>Getty Images<\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: The lame duck White House is engaged in a virtually unprecedented spree of federal executions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-executions-hall\/u-s-puts-convicted-killer-to-death-in-eighth-federal-execution-under-trump-idUSKBN27Z31V\">eight so far this year<\/a> with more scheduled. As with many aspects of his presidency, it\u2019s both Trump being especially gruesome, and his simply making use of a gruesome machinery he certainly didn\u2019t create. And federal executions are, of course, just a part of the picture. We\u2019ll talk about the death penalty with&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/liliana-segura\/\">Liliana Segura<\/a>, investigative journalist at the <strong>Intercept<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/audio\/counterspin\/CounterSpin201204Segura.mp3\"><strong>MP3 Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9018905\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9018905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ajit Pai and friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also on the show: Between the time he made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/janelytvynenko\/fcc-chairman-video\">video<\/a> in which he danced with a Pizzagate propagator to celebrate the repeal of net neutrality, and the time he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2018\/08\/17\/fccs-ajit-pai-tells-senate-why-he-misled-congress-public\/\">misled Congress<\/a> about how the agency\u2019s public comment system was cyber-attacked just at the moment that John Oliver urged viewers to leave comments supporting net neutrality, there are things about exiting FCC chair <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/ajit-pai-wants-to-shut-down-the-way-we-communicate-and-organize\/\">Ajit Pai<\/a>, the human, to make one glad to see the back of him. We\u2019ll talk less personally about the Pai FCC\u2014and how they\u2019re holding water for Trump til the end\u2014with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/about\/staff\/gaurav-laroia\">Gaurav Laroia<\/a>, senior policy counsel at the group Free Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/audio\/counterspin\/CounterSpin201204Laroia.mp3\"><strong>MP3 Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp4wp-related-posts\">\n<h3>Related Posts<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/04\/liliana-segura-on-trumps-execution-spree-gaurav-laroia-on-ajit-pais-fcc\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP3 Link (BBC\/Getty Images) This week on CounterSpin: The lame duck White House is engaged in a virtually unprecedented spree of federal executions, eight so far this year\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,423,49,424,259,4,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}