Dr. Kent Gustavson: We've just had the honor of speaking with Eliza Steelwater, expert on the death penalty, and author of The Hangman’s Knot. Today is the anniversary of the governor of Illinois’s commutation of more than a hundred death sentences. We speak about that, and also the recent New Jersey legislation to ban the death penalty in that state.
Other topics Dr. Steelwater covers in this interview: Is lethal execution humane? What's the future of the death penalty in America?
Steelwater also talks about her next book--the story of a family whose parents were murdered, and their request that Steelwater correspond with the man convicted of the murder and twice sentenced to death.
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