Episode 329: The Death Penalty’s Accomplice - Dr. James Grigson

Sinisterhood

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Texas has always had a reputation for carrying out executions, and one man’s testimony made many of them possible. This doctor claimed he could predict the future dangerousness of an offender with absolute certainty, even if they never met. And time after time, juries believed him. This week’s episode is The Death Penalty’s Accomplice - Dr. James Grigson.

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0:00.0	Texas has always had a reputation for carrying out executions, and one man's testimony made
0:05.0	many of them possible. He claimed he could predict the future dangerousness of an offender with
0:10.4	absolute certainty, even if they had never met. And time after time, juries believed him.
0:16.9	This week's episode is The Death Penalties Ac accomplice, Dr. James Grigson.
0:26.1	A bump in the night, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder of who wants you dead.
0:34.7	It could be a ghost, a demon or worse, Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse. It's hopeless. You're doomed. You'd call a priest if you could. You'd rather just listen to who. Sinisterhood.
0:57.8	I'm gonna kill you.
1:03.8	Well, we're talking about a Texas, not even a case, it's a series of cases, but a Texas became a criminal justice legend, quite literally.
1:07.1	Legends aren't always good, right?
1:08.5	Yeah.
1:09.2	Yeah, infamous.
1:10.4	Yeah.
1:10.7	It was an infamous legend. Yeah, infamous. Yeah. It's an infamous legend.
1:14.3	Unfortunately, our state is well known for giving out the death penalty.
1:19.2	And a lot of executions have gone on here, sadly.
1:22.2	Most definitely.
1:22.8	And we'll kind of bring it around to like the current state as well as kind of like how the death penalty came about but
1:28.2	well you'll hear this guy was in it in the thick of it right when execution started again and became
1:33.4	this go-to person such that as an attorney you know you we hear about him you hear it read articles
1:39.0	about him or have just a brief reference of you know someone like this person and you're like oh
1:43.9	well who's
1:44.5	that? I want to know more about him. So we decided to do a whole episode. So all of y'all know
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