Episode 574: May 28-29, 2003

Topics Covered:

• Alex reveals some details about his positions on the death penalty and drug legalization.

• Alex is opposed to federal executions, but supports state executions. Almost all executions are carried out by states, and federal executions had stopped for 17 years before Donald Trump began the practice again.

• CDC numbers do not reflect a deterrent effect for states that have the death penalty. Studies consistently find that there is no deterrent effect.

• “The Context of Family Planning in Brazil”

• National Security Study Memorandum 200

• Population and Development Review article

• Fingerprinting for school lunches in Ohio was not mandatory

• PETA list of tiger incidents

• Grant arrested in 2005 after another tiger attacks

• Trailer for documentary about Alex’s caller who had their tigers seized