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Monday December 5, 2005

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Week of December 5, 2005

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10:00The Death Penalty

Executions in the U.S. top 1,000 since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. At the same time, public support for the death penalty has dropped and high-profile clemency petitions land governors and their decisions in the news.

Guests

Joshua Marquis, National District Attorneys Association

Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Peter Slevin, national reporter for the Washington Post, based in Chicago

11:00Timothy Egan: "The Worst Hard Time" (Houghton Mifflin)

Hurricanes and floods have grabbed recent headlines, but some people think Mother Nature's worst assault on America took place in the 1930s. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist tells the stories of individuals who survived the dust storms that terrorized the High Plains during the darkest years of the Depression.

Guests

Timothy Egan, a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times and author of four books.

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