Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreKeith LaMar, also known as Bomani Shakur, is a prisoner on Ohio’s Death Row. He is facing execution in autumn 2023 after being framed in prison due to his advocacy for other prisoners and his refusal to snitch on others in the aftermath of the 1993 Lucasville …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:16 — 41.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we read a statement by Keith Lamar, also known as Bomani Shakur, who just had his execution date set. In his statement, Keith wrangles with the violent death the state of Ohio is seeking to inflict on him, but also with the vast challenges …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:42 — 35.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we have the first of several interviews that were conducted this fall in São Paulo, Brazil. Kite Line contributor Micol Seigel was there to teach a course on American prison history at the state university. Seigel’s academic host introduced her to an activist civil servant …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:50 — 41.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week’s episode covers the situation in the Midwest. We hear from Ben and Aaron, who work on supporting prisoners in Ohio and Indiana, respectively. Ben informs about Ohio prisoners who are still facing repercussions from the 1993 Lucasville uprising. We’ve introduced Lucasville in previous episodes of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:58 — 54.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively, legally killed by the state but the death penalty persists as an assertion of the sovereign right to take life or to let …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:54 — 27.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bomani Episode This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate Bomani Shakur (known to the state as Keith Lamar). We begin our episode with an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the second episode of Kite Line, we hear from Bomani Shakur, a prisoner on death row in Ohio, have our second installment of Prison 101 with Professor Micol Seigel, get an update about repression against Siddique Hasan in response to the upcoming September 9th prisoner strike, …
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