The Fall and Rise of the Death Penalty [TEASER]
5-4
00:00
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
5 to 4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. Today we are talking about the fall and rise of the death penalty. The first recorded execution in the colonies was in 1608, when Captain George Kendall was executed in Jamestown for being a spy to Spain. From 1972 to 1976, there was a moratorium on death penalties across the nation.
Transcript
Play full episode
