Welcome! We’re thrilled and excited that you joined us as we celebrate an enormous milestone — our 100th episode of Light ‘Em Up.
This achievement has been 5 years in the making and something we honestly never envisioned accomplishing when we started this project in January of 2020.
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Tonight, our focus takes us to the Pelican State of Louisiana (a state where several of our dearest friends reside) as we continue our pursuit of speaking truth to power.
Louisiana is Pro-life. Louisiana is pro-death penalty. We call hypocrisy on this!
Louisiana has enacted some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, effectively banning the procedure in nearly all circumstances with only very limited exceptions and no provisions for rape or incest — creating significant obstacles for those seeking abortion care.
The same lawmakers that have gone this far to stress their “pro-life” credentials then turn around and sound almost bloodthirsty in their support for capital punishment, which is, after all, the ending of a human life.
How does one reconcile these hypocritical, polar opposites?
We’ve got our hip-waders on and we’re going’ deep to examine this contradiction.
Are we picking a fight? No! We’re turning the spotlight on how the good people of Louisiana have adopted a rather puzzling set of policies.
In other words, how does a state so hostile to a woman’s right to choose to have a medical procedure performed on her body, which proudly boasts of its hostility to abortion and calls itself “pro-life” because of it, at the same time not only permits capital punishment, but boasts of it, and goes so far as to adopt an experimental method of choking the life out of a condemned prisoner as to pump pure nitrogen into his body?
Louisiana currently has 55 people on death row.
The state just recently resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus.
We’ll confront as best we can with the time we have issues asking:
— Does the death penalty deter crime?
— We’ll examine the 8th Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail or fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.
— Is the death penalty applied in a grotesquely unfair, arbitrary and capricious manner that disproportionately impacts individuals of color?
Does your:
— race,
— socio-economic status,
— who you kill and
— where you kill them (geographically) play MORE of a role in getting the death penalty than anything else?
Ultimately, examining and asking:
— Should the death penalty be abolished?
All this and many, many more germane and critical questions … on topic as we challenge your critical thinking skills and abilities.
It’s a matter of life or death and we’ll unpack all of it right here and right now on this historic and memorable 100th episode of Light ‘Em Up!
How can you be pro-life and pro-death penalty?
Louisiana: Pro-life, pro-death penalty, hypoxia and hypocrisy.
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