Lore 305: Botched
5/4/202632 min
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then our journey toward a more human method of execution is a bloody highway.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson.
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First 90 secondsAaron Mahnke· Host0:00
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