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S3:E7 Ending State Killing, with Abe Bonowitz from Death Penalty Action
In this episode of Just Justice, host Jessica Henry sits down with Abe Bonowitz, co-founder and executive director of Death Penalty Action and one of the most persistent voices in the movement to end capital punishment in the United States. Abe shares how he went from a young man who once said he’d “pull the switch” himself to a lifelong abolitionist, and what decades of work on the front lines ha
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“Therein lies part of the problem as well. Good guys versus bad guys. It's a false dichotomy, a two-dimensional cartoon rather than a multidimensional, full-blown portrayal of actual people. Constructs like these minimize the humanity of the people being prosecuted. Criminal defendants become a parade of disposable people who are somehow less than human and not worthy of careful, sometimes agonizing consideration of the possibility that somewhere along the line something went terribly wrong.”
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
