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After being sentenced to death for murder, jake bird puts a hex on all those involved, vowing "You will die before me" - and then the families of his jurors, judge, and cops witness bird's creepy curse come to pass as they perish in bizarre ways.

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After being sentenced to death for murder, jake bird puts a hex on all those involved, vowing "You will die before me" - and then the families of his jurors, judge, and cops witness bird's creepy curse come to pass as they perish in bizarre ways.

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Episode 107 is filled with Cape Cod nostalgia.
It begins with a bittersweet look back at the New England icon the Christmas Tree Shops as the company gets set to close all of its stores by the end of August. Although it grew to be more than a local gift shop this chain was born and developed on Cape Cod.
Known as the 'Constitution State' Connecticut is home to more than 3.6 million people. This week we will take a Road Trip to the largest city in the state when we visit Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Time moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you might miss it. We're going to heed those immortal words of Ferris Bueller and take a look around. It will be a fun and fast-paced trip Back In the Day as we go back 30 years to look at the year in music in 1993.
There will be a major trip down memory lane for long-time Cape Codders in this week's Top 5. We will explore some of the stores we grew up on in the 1980s that are no longer around today. Will you remember any of these?
There will of course be a brand new This Week In History and Time Capsule as we take a morbid look back to the very first execution in the electric chair.
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• The Lady of the Dunes.com
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• Kiwi's Kustoms - Etsy
• DJ Williams Music
• KeeKee's Cape Cod Kitchen
• Christopher Setterlund.com
• The In My Footsteps Podcast Blog
• City of Bridgeport - Visit CT
• Bridgeport.gov - Visitors

Listen to Episode 106 here 

Golden Rule #4: Don’t Mess Around and Find Out. Come back in time with me to a segregation happy time where a black woman was sentenced to death for killing her employer.
Don’t forget to rate and tell me what you think about the case.
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Victim: Ernest Knight
Suspect: Lena Baker

Case Sources 

https://gdc.ga.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/Death_penalty_in_Georgia.pdf

https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/not_guilty/lena_baker/6.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/17/usa.garyyounge1

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818124

http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_29/baker_posthumous_jd29.pdf

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lena-baker-case/

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/race-relations-in-1930s-and-1940s/
https://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/where-i-was-i-could-not-overcome-it-ep-417537393-356745071.html

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/baker-lena.htm

https://crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/not_guilty/lena_baker/index.html

Louisiana, 1939. Toni Jo and her husband Cowboy had a special kind of love. Like Bonnie and Clyde or Romeo and Juliet, they would go to great lengths to love each other and…to be together. But star-crossed lovers usually end in tragedy, and this story is no different. After her husband is convicted of murder, Toni Jo hatches a plan to spring him from prison. Along the way she will murder an innocent man, and instead of saving her husband, becomes the first and only woman in Louisiana to die in the electric chair. This is a Story of Murder and Love. This is the story of Claude Cowboy Henry and his Wife Toni Jo. Louisiana’s Tiger Girl.

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Happy Almost Birthday to Kenzie!! This episode wraps up our month of puns, we hope you found it *punderful*. To start, Lauren tells us about the twisted mind of Christa Pike and the gruesome murder she committed. Then, Kenzie covers a really humdinger of a well-known legend, The Bell Witch. You thought we’d be done with puns now, but we are *punstoppable*.
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It's a bonus! In this episode, Kelsie walks us through the case of a dirty cop, who ultimately ended up begging for the death penalty. Walking through life thinking he was the toughest guy in the world, Frank J Coppola didn't fear death, and wanted everyone to know it. Make sure you're subscribed as we upload episodes every Monday and Thursday. As always, thank you for listening!

Sources for this episode include: 

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/09/Frank-Joseph-Coppola-He-was-crazy-anything-for-a-laugh/7855397713600/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/11/Convicted-murderer-Frank-Coppola-a-former-policeman-who-preferred/5929397886400/

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c1/coppola-frank.htm

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/10/Dying-womans-prediction-God-will-make-you-pay-for-this/7330397800000/

https://www.wellsfuneralhome.net/guestbook?id=2890482

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1982/08/22/notes-from-a-prison-cell-on-the-coppola-execution/9fdf8bd6-7268-499c-a368-e416a0ee48f2/

As we reach yet another milestone -- broadcasting in 82 countries -- we close our 2nd season – another fantastic year of investigative journalism. The truth is hidden; it must be pursued! We delivered a record 18 episodes in this calendar year!
 
In this episode of Light ‘Em Up we focus on The Julius Jones case, race and the death penalty, and its application in the U.S.  We examine the glaring errors that infected this case from its inception.  

We investigate the true fact pattern, unpacking the background, case specifics and share 7 grounds on which Julius Jones’ case not only cried out for clemency but also demands that the decision be reversed and Mr. Jones be freed.

In 1999, Julius Jones was convicted of murdering a white businessman.  Although he had an alibi, he was convicted and languished on death row for >20 years.

The U.S. ranks 5th worldwide for the number of executions.  “It’s devastating to have the United States [be] the only Western developed country that executes people — and the only country in the Americas to do so,” Ivan Simonovic, the U.N.’s assistant secretary-general for human rights, stated in a recent interview with Al Jazeera to which we were granted exclusive access.

We feel that it is crucial to shine a light on and to analyze the representation that a defendant received at trial, on appeal, and in sentencing and any other post-conviction proceedings, especially for those facing execution. There is no “do over” with an execution. In this country race has always mattered ... and will always matter.
 
The death penalty in America is very expensive policy to pursue, it is defined by bias and error and thus fatally flawed, its application is racist.  It targets the most vulnerable people in society (especially the mentally ill) and helps to further corrupt the integrity of our criminal justice system. 
Defendants continue to be convicted and sentenced to death based on such arbitrary factors as: 
🧨their socioeconomic status & that of the victim
🧨their race & the race of the victim
🧨where the crime occurred
🧨the poor quality of their counsel
Know these facts to be true: 
🧨 Defendants convicted of killing white victims were 17 times more likely to be executed than those convicted of killing Black victims.
🧨 Earlier in the 20th century when it was applied for rape, 89% of executions involved black defendants, most for the alleged rape of a white woman.  Since executions have been carried out exclusively for murder, 75% of cases involve the murder of white victims, even though blacks and whites are about equally likely to be victims of murder.

Ella Baker, the civil rights and human rights activist once said, “Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest.”  

The death penalty debate boils down to these 3 questions: What is the purpose of capital punishment?  To kill with clinical efficiency so as to give victims and their loved ones some sense of justice and closure?  Or to make the condemned suffer, in the final pursuit of seeking revenge, an eye for an eye?

We’d like for you to consider these questions and respond.

Do you think the death penalty should be abolished? Does it make us safer?  Is it cruel and unusual punishment?

As we close out this season, we want to express our most sincere & humble appreciation to every listener who has taken time from your busy schedule to be part of our listener family.

The truth is powerful, and the truth is under attack.

We push forward – always forward; never backward!

Justice comes to those that fight … not those that cry!
Thank you!  Peace be with you in 2022!

Executive Producer
Phil Rizzo

Romas get his temperature checked the hard way and then gets the electric chair treatment.
Ducharme performs live comedy for a dive-in show. He later dresses up as a Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.

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JET and Nic discuss the history, epidemiology, and mechanism of death by electrocution! Special stories include the jolting creation of the electric  chair and an unsolved mystery involving homicide by amperage.

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Since its very inception, America has always had to be on the lookout for spies not just from foreign adversaries, but also from its own citizens. Alger Hiss, along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, all American citizens, were former members of the Communist Party (a party that still exists in America today.) They were all accused of passing American secrets to the U.S.S.R. in the 1940’s and were brought to trial in the early 1950’s. In this episode, we take a deep dive into what those three were accused of, what they were found guilty of, and what their ultimate sentence was. 

Episode Edits:

1. While most federal crimes have a five-year statute of limitations, acts of espionage generally carry a 10-year statute of limitations.
2. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were married in 1939, the same year Julius graduated from City College of New York.
3. Julius Rosenberg was fired from the Army Signal Corps in 1945 because they found out he was a Communist.

 Episode Resources: Alger Hiss (1904-1996)

•  Witness by Whittaker Chambers
• Secrecy: The American Experience by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton
• Interview with Christina Shelton – video by Simon & Schuster Books (She spent twenty-two years working as a Soviet analyst and a Counterintelligence Branch Chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency.)
• Hiss and Chambers Face to Face in 1948 – actual video footage
• Alger Hiss Interview 1970 – video by British Pathé 

Episode Resources: Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953)

• The Rosenberg Trial by Jake Kobrick (Research Historian, Federal Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial Center) This is the motherload of reference material.
• Final Verdict by Walter and Miriam Schneir the rebuttal to their own 1965 book.
• Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir
• Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter’s Story – Film Documentary
• Excerpt from David Greenglass obituary in NY Times by Robert D. McFadden 
• Rebuttal to Greenglass obituary in the NY Times 

Despite racial wounds, Alcolu residents unite to preserve memories of a bygone heyday.

Written by Deanna Pan and Jennifer Berry Hawes.
Read by Glenn Smith.
Produced and engineered by J Emory Parker.

New details emerge about an alternate suspect in Alcolu girls' murders.

Written by Deanna Pan and Jennifer Berry Hawes.
Read by Glenn Smith.
Produced and engineered by J Emory Parker.

For 70 years, history blamed George Stinney Jr. for the murders of two white girls. But attorneys who dusted off the case discovered disturbing flaws in the evidence used to execute the child.

Written by Deanna Pan and Jennifer Berry Hawes.
Read by Glenn Smith.
Produced and engineered by J Emory Parker.

A chance encounter in 1944 brings 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. into brief contact with two white girls. It seems so innocuous. Yet, an enduring mystery is born in the moments the girls walk away.

Written by Deanna Pan and Jennifer Berry Hawes.
Read by Glenn Smith.
Produced and engineered by J Emory Parker.