00:00It's now like the busiest death row in the US. I think what's interesting about the US is that
00:05public support for the death penalty has actually been in decline since it was reinstated in the
00:0970s. And the use of it has been massively declining as well because of, as you say,
00:14there are so many issues around actually applying it. Like a lot of the information that we get out
00:18about particularly the use of lethal injection, it's very easily botched. It can be very traumatic
00:23for the people that have to carry it out, the people watching, the medical practitioners,
00:27the prison staff. It's incredibly traumatic. Like there are some awful stories of things going
00:32horribly wrong. But what's interesting is that as the application of the death penalty in the US has
00:38been in massive decline over the past few decades, Florida has become this outlier. It's now like
00:44the busiest death row in the US. You know, there's over 240 people on death row. And I think about
00:51half of them have exhausted their appeals process. And last year, Florida carried out 19 out of the
00:5823 total executions in the US. That's like, you know, it's an incredibly, it's an incredible outlier
01:03in that regard. So it's not to suggest that public opinion is so different in Florida. But it does seem
01:09as though the difference is in that high concentration of power in the governor's office.
01:13Yes.
01:14Yes.
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