'BradCast' 4/18/2017: (Guest: Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center)
b"First, an obnoxiously arrogant comment about the U.S. and North Korea by Vice President Pence. Then, voters head to the polls today in Georgia's 6th Congressional District for a U.S. House special election in which the Democratic candidate has been polling far ahead of a split Republican field. But Jon Ossoff will have to win more than 50% of the reported vote to avoid a one-on-one run-off election with the top Republican vote-getter, in a very Republican district, as more concerns arise about the reliability of results from the state's 100 percent unverifiable touch-screen systems, a massive data breach recently at the facility which programs both the voting machines and the state's e-pollbook systems and, over the weekend, the theft of a number of those e-pollbooks from a poll workers car.\\xa0 Also today:\\xa0 Britain's Prime Minister makes a surprise announcement of snap elections to be held in June, in advance of final Brexit negotiations. Over the weekend, a Turkish referendum to grant sweeping powers the nation's President appears to have narrowly passed, but the opposition and international election observers are crying foul. That apparent 'victory' has resulted in the Turkish President calling for restoration of the death penalty, which the European Union warns will prevent Turkey from joining the beleaguered EU.\\xa0 But none of that has stopped Arkansas from attempting to move ahead with an unprecedented 8 executions over the next 10 days, as one of the controversial drugs used for lethal injections in the state is set to expire on May 1.\\xa0 Attorney Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center joins us to explain AR Governor Hutchinson's extraordinary planned killing spree, and the blizzard of legal measures and court rulings at both the state and federal level, which have already resulted in a last minute U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Monday night, and stays for the killings of the first two men scheduled for execution in the first of four nights of scheduled double-executions.\\xa0 Finally, in hopes of cheering us all up a bit, it appears that folks in Texas have finally gotten something right about politics -- and Donald Trump will not like it one bit..."