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

Check out Dr. Lain's Work:https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/clain/Pre-Order "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection"https://a.co/d/7tqFYeBCome join my Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon-//-Show Notes:People Mentioned:Michel FoucaultDan CarlinBooks, Podcasts:Discipline and Punish Hardcore History: PainfotainmentOur 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-110682686Studies and Citations:The reversal rate on death sentences:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/17/most-death-penalty-sentences-are-overturned-heres-why-that-matters/4.1% on death row are factually innocent (National Academy of Sciences):https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1306417111Anders Breivikhttps://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-

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