Bill Goodman speaks with attorney, lobbyist and author Carl Wedekind about his opposition to the death penalty and his work in Frankfort as a lobbyist for that cause. He also discusses his newest book, Politics, Religion and Death, Memoir of a Lobbyist, on the next edition of One to One, airing Sunday, Jan. 20 at 2/1 p.m. CT on KET1 and Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT on KET2.
Wedekind, a retired Kentucky attorney, was pro bono counsel in the appeal of death row inmate Harold McQueen, a case which caused Kentucky to become an early challenger to the constitutionality of execution by electrocution. In 1998 Wedekind wrote The Second Grave, A Case for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Wedekind is also volunteer campaign director for the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. He serves on the board of the ACLU of Kentucky and has served on the national ACLU board and its executive committee.
Politics, Religion and Death depicts life in the Kentucky Legislature through the eyes of a lobbyist. Readers are taken through a death row execution, the experiences of an innocent man on death row, the trauma of a juvenile sentenced to be executed and the efforts of many people to improve the system.
One to One is a KET production, produced by Bill Goodman and Cindy Asher. Following the broadcast, One to One is available for on-demand videostream viewing at www.ket.org/publicaffairs/onetoone.htm and podcasting at www.ket.org/rss.
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