The death penalty is also a hot topic. Today, we have on Austin Sarat author of Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution to discuss the death penalty and more particularly lethal injection.

Links from the show:

* Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution

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About my guest:

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Chair of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author, most recently, of Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (Stanford, 2014) and The Death Penalty on the Ballot (2019).

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