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The LifeLines Death Row Podcast LifeLines
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- Society & Culture
The LifeLines Death Row Podcast is an exploration into some of the diverse stories and issues connected to death row and capital punishment in the United States. Each episode of this new series will focus on a different story relating to the U.S. death penalty, and will include interviews with those who have first hand knowledge of the system. LifeLines is a non-campaigning UK-based charity, which befriends and supports prisoners on Death Row in America through letter writing.
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Abused, then executed: the story of Lisa Montgomery
On January 13, 2021, Lisa Montgomery was executed at the U.S. federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was her punishment for carrying out the brutal murder 16 years earlier, of young pregnant woman Bobby Jo Stinnett in her Missouri home, and kidnapping her unborn foetus.But, as the date of Lisa's execution drew closer, disturbing details revealed about her background led to an outpouring of opposition to her death sentence. Her own life story was one of harrowing abuse, torture and...