The Alabama Murders - Part 6: The Porterfield Sessions

Malcolm Gladwell here, my new book, The American Way of Killing, investigates America's gun violence crisis. Why is the richest country in the world plagued by such lethal violence? Through a series of stories, interviews, and archival tape, I confront one of today's most urgent moral dilemmas and examine Why the US has never quite understood its own problem and why you can't fix what you refuse to see clearly. Get the American way of killing at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or at Audible, Spotify, or wherever audiobooks are sold.

Pushkin. Previously on revisionist history. He was taken out of his cell thinking that his execution was imminent, strapped to a gurney, and he's asking You know, the corrections officers who are with them, what's going on? You know, an anesthesiologist in good standing is not going to spend their Wednesdays over at the, you know, state corrections sticking IVs in people for execution.

It's not something that we do. Because a cold-blooded convicted killer complains about the prodding and poking of a small abbey line. Really? potting and poking with a needle. After three and a half or four hours being strapped to a gurney, um, you know, he was unable to uh stand, walk, unbutton his shirt, you know, change his clothes, do any of that without assistance.

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