Summary: <p>Joining our hosts to discuss the racial and class inequalities infecting application of the Death Penalty is <a href="https://twitter.com/samspital?lang=en">Samuel Spital</a>, Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. They speak with <a href="https://twitter.com/sabrina76578551?lang=en">Sabrina Butler Smith</a>, the first woman exonerated from death row, about her experience of being wrongly convicted of murdering her infant and sent to death row in Mississippi. We also get a look from a victim’s perspective through a conversation with <a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferpinckn1?lang=en">Jennifer Pinckney</a>, Widow of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was murdered by Dylan Roof.</p> <p>Finally, the hosts explore the processes and procedures of putting inmates to death with <a href="https://www.hiddenvoices.org/team">Lynden Harris</a>, Director of <a href="https://twitter.com/HiddenVoicesUS">Hidden Voices</a> and Editor of "Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row" and <a href="https://twitter.com/helenprejean?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Sister Helen Prejean</a>, anti-death penalty activist, spiritual advisor to men and women on death row, and author of "Dead Man Walking," "The Death of Innocents," and "The River of Fire."</p> <p> </p>
