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Allen Ault: Opposing the death penalty

A 2014 interview with Allen Ault, the former commissioner of corrections in the US state of Georgia, who left his post to campaign against the death penalty.

Another chance to hear Stephen Sackur’s 2014 interview with Allen Ault. As the former commissioner of corrections in the US state of Georgia, Ault was responsible for state-sanctioned executions. He organised the killing of criminals until he could stand it no more. What made him leave his post and take up the campaign to end the death penalty?

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