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The Mothership - 2020-09-11

Fascinating.


Anaxagoras - 2020-09-12

It really is.

I checked out several of the other videos on the channel, and this guy is consistently a really good interviewer. He asks good, interesting questions, and his subjects are usually relaxed & comfortable.


duck&cover - 2020-09-11

The Dick Tracy villain "Smallface," in real life.


simon666 - 2020-09-11

This is what stuck out to me: The warden said (I'm paraphrasing) that he and his colleagues worked and acted in such a manner so that they could look the prisoner in the eye when the execution occurs, so that nothing in how they behaved could be reason for an execution being unjust.

Essentially, he's trying to distancing himself from the responsibility and the whole strategy of his and his prison's operating is to make sure that responsibility for the death lies elsewhere. The subtext is that there is something wrong with being responsible for taking a life and for these people working in the prison whose job it is to enact the penalty of death try their damnedest to put that responsibility elsewhere.

Who is actually (causally) responsible is probably vague. And of course it's probably a coping strategy for people in this situation to think about responsibility for the execution in these terms. Nevertheless, I suppose it is telling that taking a life even when justified (say by the courts) still rubs one as wrong when they are not personally invested in it, that is party to the crime resulting in the death sentence.


Anaxagoras - 2020-09-11

I don't think that their motives were attempts to distance at all.

Saying "We didn't cause his execution to be unjust" doesn't address responsibility at all. After all, you can be responsible for an unjust execution just as easily as a just one.

Instead, what they were attempting to do was ensure that the execution was as just as possible... a stance which I find admirable. If I were somehow in his position, I would hope that I would do the same.


Two Jar Slave - 2020-09-11

Fuck, I always forget America still regularly executes people.

God damn.


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