It Could Happen Here Weekly 207
Behind the Bastards
Early American Executions and Public Hangings
Michael Phillips and Stephen Monticelli trace colonial-era executions, public hangings, and evolving public unease with spectacle.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
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Sources:
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.)
Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)
Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
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