How to Convince the World of Bulls**t & Evil - Malcolm Gladwell - #1029

Talk to me about the history of the death penalty, fettered past that I didn't realize existed. Oh my goodness. In what country? In America? Yes.

Um, well, uh, this is a subject we dig into in this new uh series we've done on revisionist history, the Alabama murders. And, you know, the the history of the death penalty in the United States is not a in other countries there's a the battle is essentially about whether you should have it or not. And in America, the battle is really we'd like the states to have the right to do it, but they have to do it humanely. It's this absurd position where the i at issue is not the morality of the state taking someone's life. The issue is that the state should take someone's life in a manner that seems consistent with the values of America.

So There is this, you know, the used to be the case, you know, it was the it was the way back when it was we we h we hung you publicly. Then we moved on from that, and then was the firing squad, which was considered to be more humane, then then they moved on from the firing squad and they went to the electric chair. And then from the electric chair, um, they went to uh lethal injection. And then from lethal injection, they have now gone on uh to uh uh to um uh nitrogen gas, to asphyxiating you with nitrogen gas.

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