Capital Punishment
David Farrier heads to Missouri two days out from the execution of Marcellus \u201cKhaliifah\u201d Williams. He embeds with \u201cMissourians To Abolish the Death Penalty\u201d who are desperately trying to petition Missouri Governor Mike Parson for a stay. Along the way he meets locals who feel passionately about the death penalty, before traveling to Bonne Terre - and the prison where Missouri carries out all its executions. Farrier questions why 27 US States still insist on killing certain prisoners, and why this is a practice that continues to this day - and why statistically you\u2019re more likely to be killed by the state if you\u2019re black.\n\n\nShow Links:\nDonate to Missourians To Abolish the Death Penalty (MADP): https://madp.salsalabs.org/donationform/index.html \n\nDonate to The Innocence Project: https://innocenceproject.org/ways-to-give/ \n\nRobert Roberson could be the first person in the US to executed based on the discredited \u201cshaken baby syndrome\u201d hypothesis: https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/call-on-gov-abbott-to-stop-robert-robersons-execution/ \n\nA selection of Marcellus Williams\u2019 poetry:\nhttps://innocenceproject.org/marcellus-williams-on-death-row-poetry-is-a-lifeline/ \nhttps://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2024/09/25/66f488bfe4b0b663235f1864.pdf \n\nDavid Farrier\u2019s photos from St Louis / Bonne Terre: \nhttps://www.webworm.co/p/marcellus \n\nCapital Punishment statistics: \nhttps://deathpenaltyinfo.org/ \nhttps://dpic-cdn.org/production/documents/pdf/FactSheet.pdf \n\nJohn Oliver\u2019s Last Week Tonight on death row drugs issues:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3wba8c-Y\n\nTickets for Webworm\u2019s Tickled + Q&A screenings in Sydney and Melbourne: \nhttps://www.webworm.co/p/australia \n\nCruise Ship documentary - Meet the Happiest Guy in the World \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcBzOesw7sc