Public Executions and Capital Punishment

Which countries have abolished the death penalty, and which countries execute the largest number of convicts? What are the most popular methods of dispensing capital punishment? Who was the last person executed publicly in Europe, and America? Has anyone survived a public execution? Find out the answers to all of these disturbing questions and more in this week's punitive, vengeful, and relentlessly morbid episode of MFFI. 

**Note: this episode includes all of the graphic details you'd expect based on the topic. If dark humor isn't your jam, there's no shame in skipping this one.**

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In this episode:  

• The Most Popular Methods of Execution: Guillotine, Firing Squad, Gallows, Gas Chamber, Lethal Injection, Electrocution
• Jamestown and The First American Execution: Captain George Kendall
• The Current State of the Death Penalty in the States
• Virginia and Texas Vie for Capital Punishment Supremacy
• Furman v. Georgia and the 4-Year Pause (1972-1976)
• Unitary Trials
• Capital Punishment Resumes
• The Supreme Court Chips Away at the Death Penalty
• Federal Versus State Charges
• TFG Reinstitutes Executions
• Federal Executions: The Worst of the Worst
• Lethal Injection and Julius Mount Bleyer
• Death-Cocktail Shortages
• Current State of Capital Punishment Worldwide
• The Rationale for Public Executions
• The Last Public Executions: Rainey Bethea (Kentucky 1936) and Hamida Djandoubi (France 1977)
• The Death Penalty as a Deterrent
• Capital Punishment for Lesser Offenses (Drug Dealing, Blasphemy, Apostasy) 
• Failed and Botched Executions
• Antonio Franks, 1872, Fiji
• Arguments for and Against the Death Penalty
• Exonerated Death-Row Inmates
• Conclusions

 

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