The strange new politics of the death penalty

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<p>In the span of a month, Christa Pike survived a botched lethal-injection execution in Tennessee and the Pentagon announced plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. President Trump later walked back the livestream, although the execution is still scheduled; it will be the first military firing-squad execution in the country since World War II. Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at the <a href="https://apple.news/A8xxi7SooQ_-xEuE1El47Cg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marshall Project</a>, joins <em>Apple News In Conversation</em> host Shumita Basu to unpack this moment in America, how politicians and the public are responding, and what these two stories reveal about the death penalty&rsquo;s future.</p>