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Death Penalty Cases - The Needle, the Chair, and the Lie of a Clean Kill

Death Penalty Cases - The Needle, the Chair, and the Lie of a Clean Kill

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Host Miles Mercer examines America's 200-year struggle to find a "humane" execution method, from Thomas Edison's electric chair marketing campaign to the 43-minute death of Clayton Lockett. This episode covers Supreme Court cases like Glossip v. Gross and Bucklew v. Precythe, exploring whether truly painless execution is possible—and why every method produces its own catalog of horrors.

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