KAREN: She says it is that second drug that is both--. KAREN: If you walk in, and in the front it’s just this reception area, but in the back…. JAD: Are they like just a bunch of lawyers, or what do they do? On this episode of More Perfect, we'll talk about the figurative side door to the Supreme Court that has allowed individuals to influence policy for the many. In a perfect world, for example, the Saints would like to try to re-sign homegrown defensive end Trey Hendrickson, who had 13.5 sacks last season. We shouldn’t be shooting our people. What I think is happening is just that we’re paying more attention to lethal injection, right? KAREN: He voted to reinstate the death penalty. CLIP, NEWS: And will earn it international condemnation. On this episode of More Perfect, we go all the way back to a case that, in a lot of ways, started it all. MAYA FOA: I was sort of… I don’t think I knew the purpose of all the research I was doing, but I was doing it very quickly because of course they had an execution that night--. KAREN: So he’s in the legislature and he’s feeling like he just sold his soul. By Austen Goslin … I mean because that’s kind of the accusation in the air right? KAREN: She didn’t cause it, she’s-- The states are chasing the companies, and she’s chasing the states, right? Five bullets directly to the heart. KAREN: The justices called you guys out, kind of. KAREN: Yeah. KAREN: He says he doesn’t like the fact that one person gets a blank, and that nobody knows who that person is. Where the first season ends with Sebastian, presumably, eating Ciel's soul and completing his contract, the new season happens as a result of Claude stealing Ciel's soul before Sebastian has the chance to eat it, thus starting a fight for Ciel's soul. Apple has confirmed that Mythic Quest will return for season 2 on May 7, with plenty more shows coming later this year.. As reported by 9to5Mac:. 44k Likes, 237 Comments - Jimmy Choo (@jimmychoo) on Instagram: “Now available in more colour ways for the new season, MARIANNE is the must-have weekend bag,…” But isn’t there an argument to be made that like even so, the effect is that she has taken a death penalty that is kind of humane, maybe, and made it more cruel. KAREN: In the fall of 2010, when Jeffrey Landrigan was executed, the drug that they’d used, CLIP, COLBERT: The lethal drug sodium thiopental--. It’s over. CLIP, SCOTT THOMPSON, KOTV: Bill Wiseman was a rising star back then, he loved politics. Springfield News-Leader . JAD: But isn't there an argument to be made here-- I mean I get what she’s saying that like all these different people in different countries have been like unknowingly drafted onto Ohio’s execution team, which doesn’t seem fair. Except that it doesn’t look like a pharmacy, because it’s got a big sign on the front that says, Elgon Driving Academy. But this has nothing to do with me or anyone else. Netflix tend to release new seasons of shows annually though so we imagine that Julie and the Phantoms season 2 will air on the streaming service around September 2021. KAREN: Well the drugs that they want to use in Arizona have to be FDA approved. And if we cannot face what we’re doing, and acknowledge it, then we shouldn’t do it. KAREN: Ken told me that on execution days, his dad and the other shooters, they would sit down together at the kitchen table. And then she hears that a company called Hospira is about to make the drug in. He, by his account, wanders through like two and half literature degrees, he becomes a poet. This is not the time of Moses. KAREN: But we don’t know which pharmacy because Arizona refuses to release the name. KAREN: So once Maya and Reprieve found that guy, Mehdi Alavi, in his pharmaceutical broom closet of death, the next step was pretty simple. I know there was a lot of prayerful times around the house and those men were over getting ready. KAREN: And there is actually one great email exchange, between the California Department of corrections, they send Arizona this thank you email--, CLIP, COLBERT: Writing and I quote "You guys in Arizona are life savers.”. We don't. KAREN: So anyway, she’s at Reprieve one night. MAYA FOA: When they realized that the sole purpose of the exports of this drug was for executions, they put an export control in place. KEN: So, as you see, there’s two cottonwood trees over here. His last words were, “Well, I’d like to say thank you to my family. NINA PERRY: Hi, I’m looking for Dream Pharma… is that you? KAREN: But ultimately she does figure out that there were no UK companies authorized to ship this drug to the US. CLIP, NEWS: The stay was put in place due to concern over lethal injection drugs. I know that-- it was a pretty solemn moment-- I--. I mean I’ll always be tied to it. This isn’t medicine. CLIP, BILL WISEMAN: It said um, an intravenous saline drip should be established, uh, into which would be introduced an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic. Nobody should have a blank. KAREN: But to understand what she does next, let me just give you a little bit of context. Why are you using something that saves lives to do it? KAREN: She was actually in Malawi at the time. KAREN: The idea is that these three drugs would allow them to execute people, but painlessly. CLIP, AS: We have approved electrocution. It was cleaner than I expected. Or, almost made it, CLIP, NEWS: The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal asserting that the death penalty violates the US Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. CLIP, NEWS: The fact that Utah is adopting it now is an embarrassment to the state. Those old cottonwood trees, they'd set up and that's where they would drill the firing squad at. KAREN: And very quickly, she learns that the same company that is sending drugs to Arizona had sent these drugs to lots of different states. So the firing squad is honest. I don’t know, at that point, NINA PERRY: No, but I guess it unraveled somewhat to--. This is More Perfect, Season 3. CLIP, ARCHIVE: In a way that could only be called freakish. KAREN: This is Kenny. This is punishment. But let’s do it humanely. And some of those ways, might seem like we’re going backwards. KAREN: Because 80 percent of his constituents were in favor of the death penalty. ANDERS SCHROLL: We have been in the pharma industry for a little more than 100 years and we are here to save people’s lives. KAREN: So next she starts calling suppliers and distributors, kinda trying to trace like how did this drug get to that company. Nobody's forced to do it. MEHDI ALAVI: Surprised? And as they are debating various amendments to this law, someone brings up something sort of vaguely about a more humane way to execute people. KAREN: In 1972 the Supreme Court actually abolished the death penalty. They show a country that is constantly evolving and changing. KAREN DUFFIN: Can we watch teletubbies for a second? KAREN: Why is it that, do you think that the firing squad itself created this response? Bill Wiseman gets elected smack dab in the middle of this. I … You have Florida, Ohio, Alabama, 11 other states. How they came to find you or you to find them? NINA PERRY: ..doing that. ARCHIVE, JUSTICE ROBERTS: Case 14-7955 Glossip…. No pitcher has ever thrown more than one. And one of them has a blank, but none of them know which one it is. So he gets elected the Oklahoma state legislature in 1974. 2 of 8 justices, liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg said they would have accepted the case, JAD: Clearly more cases are on the way. After moving to Canada with her family, secretly gifted gymnast Jenny starts making friends (and enemies) and tries out for the school gymnastics team. KAREN: He says one day, he was sitting in his office. They kind of see it as their civic duty, uh, you know to help carry these out. MEHDI ALAVI: It wasn’t illegal at that point. KAREN: They’d actually become one of the primary suppliers of lethal injection drugs to the United States. One of those drugs obtained from Britain was not FDA approved, but the US Supreme Court did rule that there was no reason to believe that the drug wasn’t safe so--. CLIP, NEWS: The Anti-Torture regulation with this text unique in the world, the EU is profoundly committed to the fight against torture and the death penalty. CLIP, NEWS: A Hospira spokesperson said, we cannot take the risk that we will be held liable by the Italian authorities if the product is diverted for use in capital punishment, KAREN: Denmark. Nicole Kidman has confirmed that Season 3 of Big Little Lies is in development. KAREN: I think he's trying to say there are ways, to-- If you want to make the death penalty illegal you have ways to do it, you can call your legislator, you can pressure them, they can pass a law, but you’re trying to like hide in the trees and like pull drugs off and make them so scarce that you’re forcing a legal problem that doesn’t exist without you. This was during the period I was interning in the Supreme Court of India. Season 1. MAYA FOA: I remember my first call with them, KAREN: She was like, um, did you know your drug is being used in executions? KAREN: I really want to talk to a volunteer member of the firing squad. KAREN: And the thing that I find really interesting, is that if you look at the modern lethal injection cocktail. I gave this episode a listen the 2nd time. As far as another season is concerned, here’s what we know. 2. And he’s opposed to the death penalty. CLIP, NEWS: Lawmakers in Utah have voted to bring back executions by firing squad if lethal injections are not readily available. There are 27 amendments. NINA PERRY: OK. Are you still supplying the states with…. This was the complete opposite of the intention of this product. KAREN: So Clive says, there’s an execution tonight. NINA PERRY: You don’t do driving lessons. New trailers: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Ginny & Georgia, Young Rock and more Plus The Courier with Benedict Cumberbatch By Kim Lyons Jan 31, 2021, 3:45pm EST A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering. NINA PERRY: Yeah. I think that, you know, you might need a little guidance, and you might need a little understanding, and something bigger than you is out there. However, the first two episodes are clubbed on Netflix, thus bringing the episode count to 14. CLIP, NEWS: Confiscating the drugs during the import process. CLIP, NEWS: Jeffrey Landrigan was executed at 22:26 hours. PAUL RAY: We have an abundance. KAREN: One of the things that I found kind of striking is that, like, Maya Foya is against the death penalty, and you have the folks in Utah are for it. I want to be a politician. MAYA FOA: You have a couple of petrol stations, a couple of cafes, and then this pharmacy. NINA PERRY: I see, OK, well thank you very much for your time. It would get some law in order into the country. Because in the UK, it’s illegal to be part of capital punishment in any way. Is it for the person being executed, the victim, what's the prayer? It’s-- you know there are, there are people that are willing. CLIP, NEWS: It’s a cruel holdover from the state’s Wild West days. CLIP, JUSTICE ALITO: Executions could be carried out painlessly. Top Chef’s new season is the perfect show for anyone who misses sports. KAREN: It would be hard to overstate how important this moment in this office is, because you know the Supreme Court had just given the country back the death penalty on the grounds and the ideal that we could do this right. But because states in their desperation to still be able to do this are looking for other ways to do it. I’ll call somebody. Thinking that maybe that’ll lead her to it. MAYA FOA: We have a law that prohibits exports of products for the facilitation of capital punishment or torture. NINA PERRY: Oh. PAUL RAY: I was actually listening to the local NPR station--. They went to the UK government and they told them. And states have started keep companies’ names confidential too. NINA PERRY: …Uh I’m going to try to go and knock on the door of the Elgon Driving Academy…. So you actually see these emails between states like, ‘Dude, do you have any sodium thiopental?’. He is Dream Pharma. There’s not the paralytic that hides it, it’s done. CLIP, BILL WISEMAN: I knew that capital punishment-- it just doesn’t work, doesn’t make sense. The Supreme Court actually approved the firing squad in 1879. The complete preamble reads: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do … KAREN: So she’s in Malawi so she rings up her colleague and says can you go and look at this place, it’s in West London. CLIP, BILL WISEMAN: For whatever reasons, of ego, or vanity, or need, or the motivation to get re-elected, whatever the reasons, I knowingly made a decision when I knew it was wrong, and that’s-- that’s tough. JAD: More Perfect, it’s our first Radiolab spin off, side band, whatever you want to call it. And this invoice has a name on it. CLIP, NEWS: The state appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. KEN: And, you know, it's just like a little family breakfast. I can feel everything, this is agony. Over the 150 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 218,400 games played, there have been 23 official perfect games by the current definition. PAUL RAY: Well, let’s revert back to the firing squad. ROBERT BLECKER: That to me is symptomatic of our failure once again to take responsibility for what we do. KAREN: Do you have a lack of volunteers or an abundance of volunteers? And it struck me as bizarre that we are killing those whom we love in a fashion that so nearly resembles how we are killing those we rightfully detest. KAREN: That’s Justice Scalia in 2008. KAREN: So what happens is that, anyone involved in an execution, your name is kept confidential. CLIP, BILL WISEMAN: I was just having the best time and I didn’t want to get whooped. KAREN: That’s Robert Blecker, a New York Law School professor, sounding a little bit like Maya. And he’s like I don’t want the family business, and he wanders for years. All you need to know ahead of FIFA 21 Season 4 including new cards, players, objectives, rewards & more. BILL WISEMAN: It’s a terrible thing to have one’s reputation be based on coming up with a new way to kill people. CLIP, JUSTICE ALITO: Is it appropriate for the judiciary to countenance what amounts to a guerilla war against the death penalty? You know, this is calling it for what it is. The problem is the public is furious about this decision. KAREN: She’s like frantically searching through all these global medical regulations… and you know, she can’t really figure out the name of the company is. CLIP: Clenching his teeth, and in a couple moments he actually mumbled. Did you-- were you aware of that? PAUL RAY: State Representative House District 13, Utah. MAYA FOA: Italy. MAYA FOA: From this company called Lundbeck. KAREN: And it’s this residential area but also with warehouses, kind of middle class. KAREN: Was suddenly in really short supply. But over the past five and a half years, as Maya has like whack-a-moled her way across these different companies, she’s just made it harder and harder to get. KAREN: Yeah, it’s-- I’m going to say two things one of them is throw away. And we’re going to start the series off with a story that isn’t so much a courtroom drama. And Jay just sort of freestyles this one line, that Bill literally just sits with a yellow legal pad and writes word for word. KAREN: And then there’s five men with rifles. CLIP, NEWS: It’s a cruel relic of Old West justice. MAYA FOA: I think there was lots of material coming out at that time, I remember California and the ACLU got a batch of documents and--. And right there in that office, with just like this yellow legal pad, they invent lethal injection in America. Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer, More Perfect presents: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl. Death is a little bit of harm. KAREN: The anesthetic is the one that’s most constitutionally important drug. It’s three drugs…. A new Fortnite Season 6 gameplay feature has possibly leaked. But he says he objects to lethal injection not because it’s cruel. KAREN: People started filing a bunch of lawsuits, and one of these eventually got to the Supreme Court. We’re just looking at it more. And it would be extremely significant, because the potassium chloride is this potent acid that people have described as being like fire going through your veins, and being sort of burned alive from the inside. KAREN: No actually she goes after the first drug the anesthetic and it's a total coincidence, this was just the one that had manufacturing problems that started the arms race. In a big way. On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse. Who will be in the Julie and The Phantoms season 2 cast? A bunch of states. KAREN: What's the prayer? And to some degree that bothers me. Big Changes 41m. And he becomes obsessed with this idea. MAYA FOA: there was no, effectively no FDA approved supplier of the stuff. And what Bill has just handed America is a way to have the death penalty but have it be humane. My Perfect Landing. he details, like questions about which medicine we use. So we invited some of the best musicians in the world to create songs inspired by each of the 27 amendments; a kind of “Schoolhouse Rock!” for the 21st Century. KAREN: She ends up volunteering a place called Reprieve. KAREN: And just like that, the supply of this drug is turned off. So if they can find who made these drugs and prove that they are not FDA approved then they can probably stop the execution. If not, find out. CLIP, ARCHIVE: The Supreme Court declared the Death Penalty unconstitutional today and spared the lives of 600 men in death-row cells across the country. PAUL RAY: Yeah, and the firing squad has already been upheld by the Supreme Court. And this is how they end up at this mystery drug company in London. Just, they-- Many of them did not want to be on there but once they were called, they felt obligated to see it through.