EPISODE 10: 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.

Track Name Artist Name(s) Album Name Release Date
Hallowed Be Thy Name Edmund Welles Imagination Lost 08/03/11
Ride The Lightning Vitamin String Quartet VSQ Performs Metallica: Say Your Prayers Little One 11/25/03
25 Minutes to Go Shel Silverstein Inside Folk Songs 1962
Hangman's Blues Brownie McGhee The Folkways Years, 1945-1959 06/26/91
Gallis Pole (Child No. 95) Lead Belly Classic English and Scottish Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways 04/28/17
Ambient Air Box Fan Emotional Support Fan Calm Restful Box Fan Sounds 07/18/23
Let Him Dangle Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five: 20th Anniversary Edition 09/04/20
Sing Me Back Home The Seldom Scene Act 3 04/19/05
Urban Night Ambience with Trucks, Cars and Crickets Take 1 The Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library Urban & Suburban Background Sounds 05/05/15
Frankie Silver (Take It to the Grave) Couldn't Be Happiers;The Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs Songs for Butchie Vol. III 03/23/22
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen Nebraska 09/30/82
The Mercy Seat Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man 01/01/00
Modern Prison Michael Ghelfi Modern Ambiences and Atmospheres, Vol. 2, Pt. 1 02/26/24
The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti (From "Sacco and Vanzetti") - Version 1 Ennio Morricone;Joan Baez Maestro Ennio Morricone Greatest Hits (The Complete Edition) 12/01/18
Magpies Andrew Skeoch;Sarah Koschak A Morning in the Australian Bush 1996
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