BONUS - SMALL TOWN MURDER - THE HISTORY OF EXECUTIONS
🕑 Added 2025-09-28 01:37:00 +0000 UTCThis week, James and Jimmie discuss the history of executions in the United States.
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Bohfuh Deyz-Knüghts
I'm against the death penalty, but why don't they just pump them full of fentanyl or another type of opiate? Seems pretty straight forward to me. That shit kills innocent people every fucking day. They can even get it for free after a drug bust. Why use these death chemicals that aren't necessarily reliable?
Tim White
Wut?
Michelle Miller
Not kitties!!! 😿
Mana
What episode was about execution styles?
Olivia Fisher
And Vancouver!! I’m too scared to cross the border for Seattle because of all my Vance memes now 🤣
Kimberly
It seems like it would be. At the hospital Friday night they said that morphine is on backorder right now, so who knows
Cam 🛸
I like the ones where they let the person go if the execution didn’t work 😂
Melissa Rapaich-Smith
What about Toronto!! Canadian Fans are waiting to shout!!!!!!
Boot War
Can’t believe I wasted $1 for this
Jason Hahn
Anyone familiar with the case of George Stinney? He was wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1944. His conviction was vacated 70 YEARS later! O & he was only 14 at the time of his alleged crime(s). Heartbreaking case😭
Jennifer Britten
Go Bills 💙❤️🏈
Kerrie Ann OCONNOR
My complete uneducated understanding is that death-penalty states have a higher murder rare. Might be to do with the lowering of regard for human life? Btw, I am an abolitionist.
Andrew Roberts
Green mile style
Dawn Abramo
Hell yes BUFFALO NY ❤️
Thomas Gallagher
The bonus episodes are just the best
Tara Louise
Yeah the Tudors were fucking wild
Max Wilson
I haven’t bothered to look this up, but, if lethal injection is botched so many times, and the drugs are impossible to get, why don’t they just OD the person on morphine? Is there a reason why that isn’t an option?
Dezmon Nelson
Right when i move out of buffalo you guys choose to go 😭😭 im comin back for you guys if that happens
Traci Judy
The failed hanging where the neck didn’t break and didn’t strangle to death is why the wording was changed to “hung by the neck until dead”
Billy Sayle
James, we need the bonus episode of Black Blood lunatic Billy Jack Haynes🤣
Sarah Repp
I think we need a bonus episode where you guys talk about whatever show you’re actively watching or rewatching, would love to hear your review of the gilded age
Lady Earl Grey
No bet. I’m pretty sure it meant the same thing then as it does now; especially when you consider that the Bible itself mentions beastiality and states thou shall not lie with the beasts of the field and such.
Sumyr Colangelo Keating
Do states that don't have the death penalty have more or less crime? Probably a dumb question 🤔 I'm sure it end and flows depending on circumstances
Kerrie Ann OCONNOR
Aussie here from British stock. A very impressive feat, indeed! Alas, I just heard it for myself and, no…
Kevin Willingham
I’m a police officer and have been tased. Longest FIVE seconds of my life. 17 SECONDS?!!! Jesus Christ
Aaron Bialecki
yo yo. you said youre coming to buffalo next year. may i suggest the safe suburbs instead and come to the Riviera theater in north tonawanda. or the bear den at the seneca niagara casino. there is a weed store in the parking lot of the casino for james
Laura Accumanno
Jimmie missed his opportunity with the T-Bone steak! "...eggs cheese and Welches grape..." 🎶 🎵 🤣🤣🤣
Stephen Tot
Looking forward to hearing this episode
Lindsey Aaronson
OH MY GOODNESS PLEASE COME TO BUFFALO!!!!!!!
Susan Chan
What did the horse do?
Sanelisiwe Ntini
Gruesome Gertie was in the Houma, Louisiana episode #126
Grace Luterek
I've been looking forward to this episode. It did nit disappoint!
Shayne Bartlett
So wild. Third murder of butt stuff. But the first for treason. Someone took a very hard stance.
Melissa Bilotta
Lizzy Borden was acquitted, despite the clever rhyme. Love that you went through the AC/DC propaganda around the electric chair.
Eric Wright
The way I yelled “hail nimrod” when James mentioned executing that guy hahaha
Patrick Roseberry
I'd be perfectly fine with another botched executions episode. I am morbidly fascinated by it!
Mail Lady Andrea
James just said worcestershire without a second of hesitation. That was impressive 😆 🤣
Heidi
You’re coming to Buffalo….. yes!!!!yes yes
Barbara Lamka
OMG!!!! So excited you are coming to Buffalo. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😊
Rebekah Norwood
Learning that James watches The Gilded Age has made my day!
Kerrie Ann OCONNOR
hanged?
Kerrie Ann OCONNOR
I favour dying of old age surrounded by loved ones!
Michelle Miller
First, I would never want to be a witness to any of this. Second, if I had to choose an execution for myself, I'd rather be decapitated by hanging than strangled by the rope for ANY length of time. 🫤
Justine McNeil
🤣yes!!
Erin Nicole
Interesting fact: Alaska never has had the death penalty as a state. AK achieved statehood in 1959.
Devinne Willis
It used to be popular to have bells with strings attached into the coffin because of the stories of people being buried after being hanged and still alive. I think there’s a poem (Edgar Allen Poe?) about it.
Tracey
Lizzy gave her step mom 40 whacks and daddy got 41. According to the old song.
Stephen Watts
The the insane thing is hangings were spectator sports with merch and everything because the condemned had usually earned celebriety status. In London it ended up botching the attempted escape of Jack Sheppard who planned to fake his death and escape after being revived but the crowd rushed his corpse thinking his friends were doctors taking his body for a cadevar which was common and they were too late to revive him. Dickens in his early writing often talks about being horrified at witnessing an execution for the first time
Punkybrite
Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks! When she saw what she done, she gave her father 41!
Mike Daniels
KIA. Not executed by any definition.
Mike Daniels
Blackbeard was KIA (not executed) during a military operation off the coast of NC (not SC) involving 2 British ships and his vessel in 1718. Love the show but this one was cringe on some of the facts.
Melissa Sawyers
Florida is scheduled to execute a record number of people this year. They have already executed 12 so far this year.
Audra Wajda
55:55 was very Princess Bride reminiscent 😂
Mr. Jonathan Hines
Vc
YeCrustModifier
What’s the bet that in 1600s America, “beastiality” meant “sleeping with a black person”
Renata
I mean, depending on the crime, even the botched ones could be justified! 🤷♀️
Dr Phil Goode 👹🌲🔥
I'm in South Carolina, why haven't we shot Dylan Ruth's lil bitch ass. Id gladly be on his shooting squad.
Molly S
The fuck is a busset, Jimmie 😂
Kat Irving
When yall were talking about the people that survived hanging because they had thick necks it reminded me of Taylor lautners character on ridiculous 6. How he was swinging around going weeeee when they tried to hang him and everyone in the crowd was freaking out.
Renata
Even the guillotine wasn’t fool proof. Saumari sword is the best way to go
Sarah Bradshaw
Philly Billy and Tilly.
Julie Larkowski
The bustle in a hedgerow killed me, James.
Rebecca Flowers
Margaret Pole was Henry VIII’s cousin. Mary, Queen of Scots had a brutal execution too.
Alex Gibbs
Beat me to it, was gonna say I definitely remember listening to that one as well
Danielle Carter
I live near Bridgeton NJ. 1st I've heard of the hanging! Interesting!
Carl
April 2020 you did a botched execution episode, Jimmie was correct
Jessica Schafer
Im not all the way through the episode yet but 1862, world's largest mass hanging approved by Lincoln. 38 Dakota men were hung at once. Read 38 Nooses. Neither side was completely innocent but many mistaken identities happened from settlers with false claims.
Matressa, Countess of Whorington
40 whacks, Baby!
SadThor
I hope spinal fluid taste like chicken 🐔
Jimmy P
I remember you did an episode about medieval execution techniques because I couldn’t stop laughing when you made the sound effects of the whoosh!!! when the guy was killed by the trees being bent back
Liz Rutherford
The Gilded Age is incredible.
Don Nelson
Perfect timing! A nice steak & fried onions in my belly, and now for some executions! 😋
Laurie Bobskill
Really good but what was the payback for the kittens?
Susan Anderson
You realize while we weren't executing our own in 60's we were bombing the shit out of Viet Nam. That's how government fed the blood lust
Jason Welchert
The Gravelly Point Pirates, 26 men were hanged at Gravelly Point in Newport on July 19, 1723
Teresa Thompson
Blackbesrd died on Ocracoke Island, NC ☺️
Zach Hollander
Wooooooooooooooooo. Government MURDER.
Ann-Marie Watson
Can’t wait to listen to this one ❤️
Quinn Ales
You guys don’t quit!! ❤️❤️
LeeAnne Stavrakas
This should be fun!
Tim Olson
Yay!!