Maurice Chammah is a staff writer for The Marshall Project, and he joins us to talk about his in-depth look at capital punishment and how the execution of a person affects many lives.
Read more
State Of Execution
Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, and Tim Cole, an assistant professor at UNT Dallas join us to talk about how Texas’ use of the death penalty compares with other states.
Read more
Execution Horror
The death penalty has always been controversial, but with recent shortages of lethal injection drugs and a number of questionable occurrences in U.S. death chambers, there’s a new furor.
Read more
Re-examining An Execution
This hour, we’ll talk about whether or not Texas executed an innocent man with Jessie Deter, the director and producer of the Frontline documentary Death by Fire 2, which updates a previous film about the story.
Read more
Capital Punishment In Texas
How does Texas decide who will die for their crimes, and how might the state keep from executing innocent people?
Read more