From the Vault: "The Execution Tapes: Georgia’s Secret Audio Recordings of Two Executions" | Democracy Now!

From the Vault: "The Execution Tapes: Georgia’s Secret Audio Recordings of Two Executions" | Democracy Now!:

 

Watch our July 17, 2007 broadcast about "The Execution Tapes" and read the full transcript below. In 2001, radio producer Dave Isay released "The Execution Tapes," 19 recordings of electrocutions carried out by the state of Georgia since 1984. They remain the only recordings of executions in the United States. They were recorded internally by the Georgia Department of Corrections as a secret official record of the executions.

See highlights from our recent coverage of botched executions in Oklahoma and Ohio, problems stemming from the shortage of execution drugs, and related interviews about capital punishment in the United States.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/4/30/from_the_vault_the_execution_tapes