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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Death row inmate David Wood is the focus of the five-part podcast series "The Last 12 Weeks". What his case can tell us about the death penalty in America expands far beyond the six murders he was convicted for.
Not only does the system sentence people to death based on arbitrary biases like race, income, and political capital—The system convicts people they know you’ll hate. And it keeps getting away with it.
A special thank you to our guest Maurice Chammah for providing invaluable insight into the death penalty and David Wood’s case for this episode. Follow Maurice on Instagram.
Listen to “The Last 12 Weeks” Podcast here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Stomach-slashing case [“Mercy Workers”]: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/03/02/death-penalty-mitigation-specialists-rare-look
Broken system statistics https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/liebman/finrep.PDF
Death Penalty fast facts https://eji.org/issues/death-penalty/
Key Findings of Death Penalty Census https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/data/death-penalty-census/key-findings
Race and the death penalty by the numbers https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/biases-and-vulnerabilities/race/race-and-the-death-penalty-by-the-numbers
Racial Disparities in mass incarceration https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/07/27/disparities/
Police & Prosecutorial Misconduct https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/policy/prosecutorial-accountability
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00:00 - INTRO.
00:46 - THE PERFECT VICTIM.
04:22 - AN “INNOCENT” MAN?
07:48 - THE “PERFECT” SYSTEM.
11:15 - THE RAPIST.
18:13 - THE EVIDENCE AGAINST WOOD.
24:00 - WHY SHOULD WE CARE?
27:58 - **Welcome Maurice Chammah**
28:32 - Rings of trauma.
30:01 - Is death arbitrary?
32:00 - SLEEPING LAWYERS & JURORS.
37:20 - Lynching vs. “Legal” Execution.
41:22 - DOES DEATH MAKE US SAFER?
43:59 - Race & Black lives in America.
46:41 - STOMACH SLASHING & MERCY WORKERS.
50:24 - Death lawyers are bad and underpaid.
54:34 - THE LAST 12 WEEKS, DAVID, MARCIA, & GEORGE.
1:10:18 - Gavin Newsom commuting ALL death sentences in CA?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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