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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Our incredible listener, Sophie Day, emailed us awhile back about this week's episode of The X-Files, "Beyond the Sea," and the character of Luther Lee Boggs. Sophie explained that she works as a Capital Mitigation Specialist, which means that she is part of the legal team that represents folks who have already been sentenced to death on their last appeals. She explained, "basically it's my job to tell my client's story. I spend countless hours with my clients, their family, and anyone I can find who knew them before the crime they are convicted of. It is my job to help decision makers (a judge, SCOTUS, or the Governor) see my client as a full person. We do not seek to excuse the crime, but to help the person/people deciding if they should live or die how my clients' lives could have brought them to where they are. My primary goal is to reflect my client's humanity and dignity outward." We were so excited to bring Sophie into the pod-space for a deeper conversation, and in this bonus episode you will hear her discuss the way that folks in prison, and especially on death row, are portrayed in television and movies — and in this episode in particular!

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0:00.8	Hey there, it's a Friday. What are we doing here? It is Kristen just up here with a quick
0:06.8	introduction. This is a special episode today. We talked about it a bit in Wednesday's episode
0:12.1	covering the X-Files Beyond the Sea. This is the full conversation that we had with our listener,
0:18.6	Sophie Day, who emailed us a while back about this episode and the character of Luther Lee Boggs,
0:25.3	who is a character on death row. Sophie explained to us that she works as a capital mitigation specialist,
0:31.9	essentially she is working with folks on death row and she will explain that in her own words inside
0:36.9	the interview. This is the conversation that we had with her where we talk a bit about the episode.
0:41.6	We talk a bit about the system and we talk a bit about the lack of knowledge that so many of us have
0:49.3	myself included until this conversation about death row and about capital punishment. So
0:56.3	it's a really interesting conversation and we are endlessly thankful to Sophie for reaching out.
1:01.3	More resources are in the show notes today and we will be back next Wednesday as scheduled with a new
1:07.6	episode of the X-Files.
1:14.3	Hello, Sophie. Welcome to the pod. Hi, very excited to be here. We are excited to have you.
1:22.7	Actually, thank you so much for reaching out to us and identifying your extremely specific and
1:30.5	relevant experience. Yeah, sure. I mean, it's one of those things where I have a job that is
1:37.5	specific enough that I don't, it doesn't feel relevant in a lot of situations and when it does,
1:42.8	I'm like, oh, I could talk about this. I can help here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you, for our dear
1:50.4	gentle listeners, explain in your own words the nature of what it is you do? Yeah. So this is
1:57.0	going to sound really complicated, but I promise it's not. So I am, my full job title is IMA
2:04.4	capital mitigation specialist for the federal public defender's office. I know, which sounds
2:09.7	terrifying. Basically, what that means is I work at a federal, on the federal level, I work at the
2:14.8	federal defender's office in Missouri. And capital means that I work with folks who have been sentenced
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