{"id":20254,"date":"2021-02-01T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=711927fe46c0cec4b8ae236823e6cbe5"},"modified":"2021-02-01T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T22:41:18","slug":"2514-the-history-of-the-american-death-penalty-w-maurice-chammah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/01\/2514-the-history-of-the-american-death-penalty-w-maurice-chammah\/","title":{"rendered":"2514 – The History of the American Death Penalty w\/ Maurice Chammah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam and Emma host Maurice Chammah, staff writer at The Marshall Project, and author of\u00a0Let the Lord Sort Them:\u00a0The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty\u00a0<\/em>joins the show to discuss his new book and how America might move beyond its shameful history of capital punishment. Sam and Chammah explore how the death penalty took hold through American culture, particularly Texas, and its relationship to reconstruction and lynchings in the south. Chammah continues to describe the mythology of Texas, frontier justice, and how it impacted the continuation of the death penalty. The two continue their conversation considering how state governments made capital punishment operational from the 1970s onward, and how Bill Clinton used it to secure his political future. Sam, Emma, and Chammah conclude their conversation by examining the future of the death penalty and how a Democratic administration could work around states' efforts to uphold their capital punishment. Chammah closes the discussion by talking about changing punitive carceral reform and the incremental changes needed to provide a more humane society.<\/p>

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