The Alabama Murders - Part 5: Cruel and Unusual

My superpowers are I love to talk, I hate injustice, and somehow I seem to be able to convince people to be hopeful. I have it on good authority that superheroes are real. I get to meet them every day, and you get to hear them each week on Reveal. I turned around and my mom voice turned on. I had to be like, you are hurting America, young man.

Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no. You have effed with the wrong person. Be sure to listen to and follow Reveal on your favorite podcast app. Pushkin. Previously on revisionist history, I think there was a pressure to have a method that looked more humane than electrocution and lethal gas.

On that van, and I go back to the hotel where the other people had been in there praying with his family. And I have to go in and tell them, you know, John's gone, it was peaceful, he didn't appear to suffer. This is how lethal injection actually kills you. It kills you by burning your lungs up. And you're also paralyzed, so you can't complain that this is happening.

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