These enduring and endearing figures talk about breaking segregation in the South, individual and social change, hierarchy of values, media, propaganda, history and memory, etc. The introduction is by Alice Walker, noted poet and novelist, and former student of Zinn's. February 14, 1998. The U.S. ranks number one in capital punishment. More and more states are imposing the death penalty.
Politicians line up calling for more and more executions.
Yet evidence shows that the death penalty is racist, targets the poor, kills innocent people and fails to deter crime. This extraordinary and powerful program was recorded at Harvard at a public meeting organized by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. It features historian Howard Zinn, philosopher Cornel West and former death row inmate Lawrence Hayes. March 11, 1996. A decade-long sanctions regime has caused massive suffering and hundreds of thousands of deaths.