Buddhist on Death Row
How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"
The History Hour · BBC World Service
January 9, 202152m 6s
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Show Notes
How US inmates turned to Buddhism to face execution in 1990s Arkansas, and we look at the history of the death penalty in the US with Prof Vivien Miller. Plus, the truth of a space "strike", the 70s book that predicted global decline in 2020, sequencing the Ebola virus and we hear the world's oldest song.
Photo: Anna Cox and inmate Frankie Parker.