ARCHIVE RECORD 010 07.22.2026 1 HOUR 15 TRACKS

010 / A DEATH SENTENCE

We keep it focused and let the songs speak volumes for themselves. Death row and state executions.

Sidestepping the debate about whether the death penalty is state-sanctioned murder, these songs address the emotional experience, cultural implications, and lasting impacts of the ultimate punishment that can be imposed by the state.

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Track Name Artist Album Released
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Edmund Welles Imagination Lost 2011
Ride The Lightning
Vitamin String Quartet VSQ Performs Metallica: Say Your Prayers Little One 2003
25 Minutes to Go
Shel Silverstein Inside Folk Songs 1962
Hangman's Blues
Brownie McGhee The Folkways Years, 1945-1959 1951
Gallis Pole (Child No. 95)
Lead Belly Classic English and Scottish Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways 1971
Ambient Air Box Fan
Emotional Support Fan Calm Restful Box Fan Sounds 2023
Let Him Dangle
Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five: 20th Anniversary Edition 2020
Sing Me Back Home
The Seldom Scene Act 3 1973
Urban Night Ambience with Trucks, Cars and Crickets Take 1
The Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library Urban & Suburban Background Sounds 2015
Frankie Silver (Take It to the Grave)
Couldn't Be Happiers; The Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs Songs for Butchie Vol. III 2022
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska 1982
The Mercy Seat
Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man 2000
Modern Prison
Michael Ghelfi Modern Ambiences and Atmospheres, Vol. 2, Pt. 1 2024
The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti (From "Sacco and Vanzetti") - Version 1
Ennio Morricone; Joan Baez Maestro Ennio Morricone Greatest Hits (The Complete Edition) 1971
Magpies
Andrew Skeoch; Sarah Koschak A Morning in the Australian Bush 1996