The First Gas Chamber Execution In America - ...

October 19th: Heidi Carter Kills (2021) A night of fun can sometimes end in danger and death. On October 19th 2021 a couple went off on what they thought was a fun and adventurous rendezvous only to find themselves in mortal danger. https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2 ...  Show more

October 18th: Jerry Rollins, Dana Flynn, and Mikel Dreiling Indicted(1994) How far would you go to get what you wanted? How many people would you influence? On October 18th 1994 three individuals were indicted for a heinous crime. One committed so some could get exactly what they ...  Show more

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Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, the first time this method of capital punishment has been used anywhere in the world.On today's show Lewis asks how it has come to this, and whether the US government will be gassing more of its crimi ...  Show more

In 1944, amid the harsh glare of Jim Crow, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. was strapped into South Carolina’s electric chair after a trial that lasted just a single day. With no physical evidence, no defense witnesses, and an all-white jury that deliberated for ten minutes, he was ...  Show more

On February 8, 1977, 43-year-old Tony Kiritsis walked into the office of mortgage broker Dick Hall and WIRED THE BARREL OF A SAWED OFF SHOT GUN TO HALL’S NECK. This "dead man's line" meant that if a policeman shot Kiritsis the shotgun would go off and shoot Hall in the head. The ...  Show more