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Ep 170 — Death Penalty pt. 1 0

Feb 19, 2025

We begin our next series, this time on Capital Punishment. We start with the history of crimes throughout written history that justified the death penalty. Then we get into colonial history and how the death penalty was built into the foundations of racist America. Multiple Supreme Court rulings have shifted the landscape. We end with the recent EO attempting to expand the powers of the death penalty.

Death Penalty survey #1: https://forms.gle/S31MTYbM8JNsikpe9

Show Notes:

History of the death penalty: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/history-of-the-death-penalty/

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/background/history-of-the-death-penalty/early-history-of-the-death-penalty

Timeline of the history of the death penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/history-of-the-death-penalty-timeline

History of the death penalty in USA: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/background/history-of-the-death-penalty

Death penalty in the U.S.: https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/the-u-s-and-the-death-penalty.html

Capital punishment in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States

On Crimes and Punishment by Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, 1764: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/cesare-bonesana-di-beccariaon-crimes-and-punishments-1764 Overview of the death penalty and capital trials: History, current status, legal procedures, and cost: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/overview-death-penalty-and-capital-trials-history-current-status

Crimes act of 1790: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_Act_of_1790 List of women executed in the United States since 1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976

Amnesty International resources
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/

“The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861” by David Brion Davis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847110?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Study reveals racial bias in executions: https://eji.org/news/study-reveals-racial-bias-in-executions/

“I just wanted to … stay alive” Who was WIlliam Furman, the prisoner at the center of a historic legal decision?: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/i-just-wanted-to-stay-alive-who-was-william-henry-furman-the-prisoner-at-the-center-of-a-historic-legal-decision

Furman v Georgia: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/408/238.html

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Gregg v Georgia: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/428/153.html

HIstorical Federal Executions: https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/historical-federal-executions

Judiciary Act of 1789: https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/judiciary-act-of-1789-charter-us-marshals-and-deputies

EO on expanded Death Penalty

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/

https://prismreports.org/2025/02/10/death-penalty-undocumented-immigrants-trump/

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-lawmakers-push-for-mandatory-death-penalty-in-immigration-crackdown/

Equal Justice Initiative

https://eji.org/issues/death-penalty/

Texas Department of Criminal Justice on DP

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_facts.html

McCleskey v. Kemp

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/481/279/

EJI on McCleskey v. Kemp

https://eji.org/news/the-legacy-of-mccleskey-v-kemp/

Racial bias in death penalty

https://eji.org/news/study-reveals-racial-bias-in-executions/

Furman v Georgia

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/69-5030

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/238/

Wilkerson v Utah

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/99/130/

The Movement to Abolish Capitla Punishment by David Brion Davis

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847110?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

Abraham Johnstone address

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/johnstone/johnstone.html

Slave Executions in the US

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0362331999800019

Execution statistics in US

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/executions-overview/executions-in-the-u-s-1608-2002-the-espy-file

Thomas Paine opposing execution of Louis XVI

https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/paine-opposes-executing-king-1793/

History of lynching in America

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america#:~:text=Lynchings%20did%20not%20occur%20in,the%20only%20victims%20of%20lynching.

Confronting hte legacy of lynching in America

https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism: https://youtu.be/gDCeSOr3U-s?si=bjxiWo-jaYtIESKP

Recent Live Show Book Club on Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCxAsGWNVXo

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Ep 169 — 3 Mormon Lawsuits; Spotlight 0

Feb 5, 2025

3 lawsuits against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We discuss the class action suit, Judson et al v. LDS, the recently tossed case of Huntsman v. LDS, and the civil RICO suit Gaddy v. LDS. Where do they stand? How likely are they to prevail? What are the next steps? We go over them and discuss the implications and steps forward. Then we chat about the 2015 movie Spotlight about the Boston Globe journalists who reported on Cathlolic sex abuse in the early 2000s. We wrap with some happy news about a new solar plant being built in Oregon!

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Show Notes:

Gaddy v. LDS

https://casetext.com/case/gaddy-v-corp-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/utah/utdce/2:2019cv00554/116009/141/

https://becketfund.org/case/gaddy-v-corporation-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.utd.116009/gov.uscourts.utd.116009.135.3.pdf

https://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/75208-gaddy-lawsuit-judgement/page/2/

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-utd-2_19-cv-00554/pdf/USCOURTS-utd-2_19-cv-00554-3.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16025781/gaddy-v-corporation-of-the-president-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UQYzFYaxc

Judson et al v. LDS

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/utah/utdce/2:2024cv00296/147894