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.
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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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