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Death Penalty Delusions

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The U.S. proudly shares a culture of legalized capital punishment with the likes of North Korea, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, and ISIS. Levon and Andrey take stock of the 18 Americans executed on death row in 2022, and dig into the ethics of capital punishment to better understand why our justice system kills.

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