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Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful
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Check out Dr. Lain's Work:
https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/clain/
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Show Notes:
People Mentioned:
Books, Podcasts:
Hardcore History: Painfotainment
Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison (Chris Hedges)
I did a podcast about torture, both in Abu Ghraib and in American prisons in the context of the "global war on terror":
https://www.patreon.com/posts/s1e3-tortured-110682686
Studies and Citations:
The reversal rate on death sentences:
4.1% on death row are factually innocent (National Academy of Sciences):
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1306417111
Anders Breivik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#Prison_life
-Let me know in the comments what I missed and I'll add it back in-