Ep. 74 The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington-- The Stacks Book Club (Allison Punch)
Today on The Stacks Book Club, Allison Punch is back to discuss The Cadaver King and the Country Dentists by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington. The Book is an in depth look at two men who are part of the death investigation industry in Mississippi, how their corruption is indicative of the field at large, and how their malpractice is an indictment of the criminal justice system as a whole.
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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
"The Short Stacks 17: Radley Balko//The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist" (The Stacks)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
"Death Investigations" (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO)
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
"Jury nullification: how jurors can stop unfair and racist laws in the courtroom" (German Butler, Vox.com)
Let's Get Free by Paul Butler
"State Attorneys General" (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO)
Invisible No More by Andrea Ritchie
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
"Stanford rape case: Inside the court documents" (Ray Sanchez, CNN)
"Here's The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker" (Katie J. M. Baker, Buzzfeed News)
"A black principal, four white teens and the ‘senior prank’ that became a hate crime" ( Jessica Contrera, The Washington Post)
The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy Johnson on the death penalty (Twitter)
"On Mercy" (Lacy M. Johnson, Guernica)
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann
"Ep. 27 Talking Investigative Journalism with Nancy Rommelmann" (The Stacks)
Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thomson
Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler
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