Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful

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Show Notes:

People Mentioned:

Michel Foucault

Dan Carlin

Books, Podcasts:

Discipline and Punish

Hardcore History: Painfotainment

Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison (Chris Hedges)

I did a podcast about torture, both in Abu Ghraib and in American prisons in the context of the "global war on terror":

https://www.patreon.com/posts/s1e3-tortured-110682686

Studies and Citations:

The reversal rate on death sentences:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/17/most-death-penalty-sentences-are-overturned-heres-why-that-matters/

4.1% on death row are factually innocent (National Academy of Sciences):

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1306417111

Anders Breivik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#Prison_life

-Let me know in the comments what I missed and I'll add it back in-