Irreversible: The Legal, Moral, and Human Costs of the Death Penalty

Unpacking Injustice by Montana Innocence Project

Episode notes

What does justice look like when we execute someone, knowing the system is fallible?

In this episode, Montana Innocence Project Executive Director Amy Sings In The Timber and Legal Director Brady Minow Smith discuss the death penalty — its moral, legal, and human implications through the lens of innocence and manifest injustice work.

They explore how personal experience shapes perspective, why innocence cases reveal the irreversible dangers of capital punishment, and what redemption means in a justice system built on retribution.

The conversation also touches on the case of Robert Roberson, an Innocence Project client who, at the time of recording, was scheduled for execution in Texas based on discredited science. Amy and Brady unpack what happens when new evidence and evolving science are ignored and what that says about our ju ... 

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