91: When Innocent Prisoners Aren’t Good People (and cops make sure of it)

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Death row inmate David Wood is the focus of the five-part podcast series "The Last 12 Weeks". What his case can tell us about the death penalty in America expands far beyond the six murders he was convicted for.

Not only does the system sentence people to death based on arbitrary biases like race, income, and political capital—The system convicts people they know you’ll hate. And it keeps getting away with it.

A special thank you to our guest Maurice Chammah for providing invaluable insight into the death penalty and David Wood’s case for this episode. Follow Maurice on Instagram.

Listen to “The Last 12 Weeks” Podcast here.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Stomach-slashing case [“Mercy Workers”]: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/03/02/death-penalty-mitigation-specialists-rare-look

Broken system statistics https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/liebman/finrep.PDF 

Death Penalty fast facts https://eji.org/issues/death-penalty/ 

Key Findings of Death Penalty Census https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/data/death-penalty-census/key-findings