Join host Miles Mercer as he examines America's most controversial punishment through landmark Supreme Court cases, death row realities, and execution procedures. This unflinching series explores race, poverty, and botched executions while confronting the ultimate question: is capital punishment justice or something darker?

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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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Join host Miles Mercer as he examines landmark Supreme Court cases—Atkins, Roper, and McCleskey—revealing how race, poverty, and geography determine who faces execution in America. This episode dissects the "evolving standards of decency" doctrine and exposes systemic inequalities that persist in capital punishment despite constitutional protections for intellectually disabled defendants and juveniles.

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Miles Mercer examines how the Supreme Court's "evolving standards of decency" test emerged from a 1958 desertion case to reshape American death penalty law for 70 years—banning executions one decade, approving them the next, as the constitutional standard shifts with society's uncertain conscience.

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