Florida Woman

This episode we discuss Lisa Montgomery updates the case of Taylor Rene Parker, execution methods, racial disparities in capital punishment cases, and the Pope's prayer to end capital punishment. Followed by strange stories that are not related to crime.

Palate cleansers

1. A tomato spill makes a major California highway a marinara mess

2. An overturned truck and Memphis covered the road with Alfredo sauce

3. Truck collision turns a Florida Highway into a silver sea of beer cans

4. An Oklahoma state lawmaker introduced a bill for Bigfoot hunting season

Happy Halloween! Thank you for listening!

-Mariel

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Notable Quotes

● Surely an American government should not elect to execute its citizens based on a television program; this is sadly fairly typical of capital punishment, where those without capital get the punishment.

● Punishment is supposed to be painful; the idea of a killer dying easily would be the opposite of justice.

● Since 1947, the Nuremberg Code has stated that no human experiment should be conducted where there's reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, so perhaps we should accept that our grotesque human experiments should be left in centuries past where they belong.

● Capital punishment offers no justice to victims but rather encourages revenge, and it prevents any possibility of undoing a possible miscarriage of justice.

● The death penalty is morally inadmissible, for it destroys the most important gift we have received; life. Society can ensure public safety without definitively depriving the offenders of the possibility of redeeming themselves, making capital punishment unnecessary as a legal tool.-Pope Francis

● Always in every legal sentence, there must be a window of hope. Let us not forget that up to the very last moment, a person can convert and change. Each day, there is a growing no for the death penalty worldwide. Let us pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country.

● History shows us that blackness has been devalued since the founding of America. Still, the truth is that black victims matter as much, even if the legal system and society have not recognized their value.

● We must make the radical choice to uproot systems like the death penalty that allowed the anti-black biases in our national consciousness to not only thrive but to be just to do otherwise is to perpetuate a system where black lives matter less. When we accept that the death penalty reveals that black deaths do not matter, it becomes apparent that there is not an anti-racist fix for the death penalty other than its abolition.

● Remember that if you have anything negative to say, reevaluate your life choices because you're taking time out of your day to criticize something that truly does not impact you in any way.