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		<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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		<itunes:author>Marlo Blue</itunes:author>
		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thursday, April 30, 2026 - The Execution of James Broadnax by the State of Texas]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Merel Pontier; Rand Mintzer;Francois Picard;Michelle Pitcher; Brenna Erlich; Anno Da Poet; Erick Scott Blackwood-Head
The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words. <br><br>LEGAL ANALYSTS<br><br>MEREL PONTIER, criminal defense attorney and legal director of the nonprofit Clinton Young Foundation, and RAND MINTZER, Houston criminal defense attorney and host of THNX on KPFT.<br><br>HUNTSVILLE REPORTER<br><br>FRANCOIS PICARD, freelance video journalist, YouTuber, podcaster, and KPFT contributor reporting from outside the death house.<br><br>INTERVIEW GUESTS<br><br>MICHELLE PITCHER, staff writer at the Texas Observer covering criminal justice, was on the team at The Marshall Project that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.<br><br>BRENNA EHRLICH, writer and chief research editor for Rolling Stone who has covered the Broadnax case.<br><br>ERICK SCOTT BLACKWOOD-HEAD, hip-hop artist, community advocate and former KPFT broadcaster based in Corpus Christi, Texas.<br><br>ANNO DA POET (Anno Stefan Domini), Houston-based spoken word artist and performer known for his work with Write About Now Poetry, or WanPoetry.<br><br>SKYLA DAWN, host of KPFT programs Skyla Dawn&rsquo;s Beats and Damage Control.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - Execution of Charles Victor Thompson]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Merel Pontier; Keri Blakinger
Sentenced to death in 1999 after a jury convicted him in the slayings of his ex-girlfriend and her new lover. Thompson admitted to the shootings but claimed the hospital was responsible for the death of his ex several days later. He staged an escape in 2005 from the Harris County Jail while being sentenced to death for a second time. He was picked up four days later in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Jan. 28, 2026, death date was the first during the tenure of Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Thursday, September 25, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, June 10, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, June 3, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, May 27, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 18:03:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, May 27, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, May 20, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Thursday, February 13, 2025]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - Execution of Steven Nelson]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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Legal analysis and discussion of the case and the death penalty.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Thursday, October 24, 2024]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, October 1, 2024]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - The Execution of Travis Mullis]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Defense Attorney Monique Sparks and Pam Perillo
with Merel PONTIER and  Clinton Young]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Wednesday, August 7, 2024]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Wednesday, June 26, 2024]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Wednesday, February 28, 2024]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Thursday, November 16, 2023]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Thursday, November 9, 2023]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Tuesday, October 10, 2023]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thursday, March 9, 2023 - Execution of Arthur Brown, Jr.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
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Condemned in the 1992, slayings of four people in southwest Houston. The shootings happened during what police said was a drug purchase. Brown previously had a death date in 2013, but that was delayed to allow for the review of ballistics evidence in the case. In May 2022, a judge delayed signing the execution order so Brown could find a new attorney to investigate if he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for execution.<br>Legal Analysis by Houston criminal defense attorney LARRY DOUGLAS, and capital appellate defense attorneys PAT McCANN and MEREL PONTIER. Also LINDA SNYDER, anti-death penalty activist, reporting from outside the death house in Huntsville, and CLINTON YOUNG, released on bail in January 2022 after spending 18-&frac12; years on Texas death row. Granted a new trial due to prosecutorial misconduct.&#160;&#8211;&#160;
Execution of Arthur Brown, Jr.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - Execution of Gary Green]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: TIARA COOPER, deputy director, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, to discuss the importance of legislative lobbying efforts.
Sentenced to death in a double homicide in Dallas in 2009. Issues raised in his appeals include claims of numerous points of error from his trial, including challenges to: the sufficiency of evidence against him, admissibility of his confession, and the way the jury was selected. In the punishment phase of Green&rsquo;s trial, family members described mental sympoms that had plagued him since childhood. A psychologist testified that he suffers from a mental illness called schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, and wrongly believes that people are trying to hurt him.<br>Interview of Gary Green by Marlo Blue.<br>Legal Analysis by Houston criminal defense attorney LARRY DOUGLAS, and capital appellate defense attorneys PAT McCANN and MEREL PONTIER. Also LINDA SNYDER, anti-death penalty activist, reporting from outside the death house in Huntsville, and CLINTON YOUNG, released on bail in January 2022 after spending 18-&frac12; years on Texas death row. Granted a new trial due to prosecutorial misconduct.&#160;&#8211;&#160;
Execution of Gary Green]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - Execution of John Balentine]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: John Balentine
Sentenced to death following his conviction in the shooting deaths of three teenage boys. The 1998 slayings occurred in Amarillo, Texas. A previous execution date in 2012 was stayed at the 11th hour when the US Supreme Court ruled favorably on Balentine&rsquo;s petition that he had inadequate representation at trial. Two stays had been issued previously. The one in 2013 came down less than an hour before he was set to be put to death. A Feb. 8, 2023, date was vacated after the state failed to give timely notice to his lawyers.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday, February 1, 2023 - Execution of Wesley Ruiz]]></title>
			<link>https://archive.kpft.org/mp3/kpft_230201_180000executiowatch.mp3</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Larry Douglas et al
Condemned in the 2007 shooting death of a Dallas police officer. Ruiz said he shot him in self defense. Ruiz has challenged his death sentence as based on inaccurate testimony given by an expert witness at his punishment hearing. A criminal investigator, portrayed as an expert on prisoner classification, testified that Ruiz would receive a moderately restrictive classification if sentenced to life without parole, but that after ten years he might be moved to a less restrictive situation, &ldquo;depending on his behavior.&rdquo; The information was untrue. Texas capital juries are asked to assess a person&rsquo;s future dangerousness in determining whether to sentence them to death.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tuesday, January 10, 2023 - Execution of Robert Fratta]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Larry Douglas et al
Condemned in a murder-for-hire case in which his estranged wife was shot to death in 1994. He is a former police officer for the Houston suburb of Missouri City. Two other men convicted of carrying out the killing also received death sentences. Fratta has maintained his innocence, claiming that his father in law framed him. His conviction in 2009 was the second for Fratta. The first, in 1995, was tossed out on appeal.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday, November 16, 2022 - Execution of Stephen Barbee]]></title>
			<link>https://archive.kpft.org/mp3/kpft_221116_180000executiowatch.mp3</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Larry Douglas, Pat McCann Linda Snyder
Discussion of the case against him and application of the law.<br>Also special guest, attorney Meryl Ponti&egrave;re]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>3529</itunes:duration>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - The Execution of Tracy Beatty]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[
with legal analysts Larry Douglas; Pat McCann; and special guest Clinton Young. Reporter from the field Linda Snyder. Live coverage as the State of Texas executes Tracy Beatty]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Wednesday, October 5, 2022]]></title>
			<link>https://archive.kpft.org/mp3/kpft_221005_180000executiowatch.mp3</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>3612</itunes:duration>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Wednesday, August 17, 2022]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>3612</itunes:duration>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Thursday, April 21, 2022]]></title>
			<link>https://archive.kpft.org/mp3/kpft_220421_180000executiowatch.mp3</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Execution of James Broadnax . Imprisoned on Death Row for a crime his co-defendant admits Broadnax did not commit. Facing a penalty of death not because of his actions but because of his words.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>3611</itunes:duration>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - Execution of Rich Rhoades]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Guest: Larry Douglas, Mike Gillespie
Rhoades was convicted in the 1991 stabbing deaths of two Houston brothers. His attorneys argued on appeal that the judge who presided over his trial the following year shouldn&rsquo;t have excluded from evidence photographs from Rhoades&rsquo; childhood, that jurors were inaccurately told he could be released on furlough if sentenced to life in prison, and that two potential jurors were illegally disqualified because they were black.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>3611</itunes:duration>
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			<title><![CDATA[Execution Watch - Wednesday, June 30, 2021]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This show airs whenever the State of Texas schedules an execution. ]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[
Unless it is stayed, the execution of John Hummel for the slaying of three family members in 2009.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:duration>3608</itunes:duration>
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