This topic was so dense with information, I felt I needed to keep the gruesome first-hand accounts of completed or botched executions out. Frankly, the amount race, gender, class, status and wealth impact every aspect of the criminal justice system needs to be explored on this podcast through the lens of taboo before I can really do justice to the individual stories.

What's that saying, a million deaths is a statistic, a single death is a tragedy? This Taboo mini gives an overview to the practice of public executions. We will cover a few individual tragedies at a later date.