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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\nLast week the Trump administration carried out its 9th and 10th federal execution of 2020. On Wednesday night, the state executed a 40-year-old man, Brandon Bernard.\nAccording to the AP, \u201cwhen Bernard was 18 he and four other teenagers abducted and robbed Todd and Stacie Bagley on their way from a Sunday service in Killeen, Texas, during which Bernard doused their car with lighter fluid and set it on fire with their bodies in the back trunk.\u201d\nBernard\u2019s death comes several months after the Justice Department surfaced a proposal to \u201creintroduce firing squads and electrocutions for federal executions, giving the government more options for administering capital punishment as drugs used in lethal injections become unavailable.\u201d\nLast Friday, the government executed Alfred Bourgeois, who has an intellectual disability, whose should have meant he could not have been up for the death penalty. But Bourgeois\u2019s trial lawyers did not present evidence of his intellectual disability to the jury. He was the 17th person executed in the united states this year, and the country\u2019s last scheduled execution for 2020.\nThis week on Quick to Listen, we wanted to discuss how to wrestle with the death penalty, accountability, justice, and forgiveness from someone who has straddled many sides of this situation.\xa0\nJeanne Bishop,\xa0a felony trial attorney in the Office of the Cook County Public Defender in Chicago. She is the author of Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister\u2019s Killer and\xa0Grace From the Rubble: Two Fathers\u2019 Road to Reconciliation After the Oklahoma City Bombing. Bishop joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss how her work and sister\u2019s murder have impacted how she views the death penalty, what accountability and justice look like outside of the death penalty, and how to pray for those in the criminal justice system during the pandemic.\xa0\nWhat is Quick to Listen?\xa0Read more\nRate Quick to Listen on\xa0Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on\xa0Twitter\nFollow our hosts on Twitter:\xa0Morgan Lee\xa0and\xa0Ted Olsen\nFollow our guest on Twitter: Jeanne Bishop\nVisit Jeanne Bishop\u2019s website\nMusic by\xa0Sweeps\nQuick to Listen is produced by\xa0Morgan Lee\xa0and\xa0Matt Linder\nThe transcript is edited by Yvonne Su\nRead Morgan\u2019s interview with Jeanne:\xa0Forgiving Her Sister's Murderer, Face to Face\nRead Ted\u2019s piece about Pullman, Disney World, and churches\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices