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AJ Abraham J. Bonowitz On The Prison Show

“It's pretty outrageous that they're executing people who went through something they recognize as abusive and experienced what we know is the common thread among most of the people that end up being executed, which is abuse, neglect, and addiction at childhood.”

The Prison Show · Social Issues · October 2026

“It's pretty outrageous that they're executing people who went through something they recognize as abusive and experienced what we know is the common thread among most of the people that end up being executed, which is abuse, neglect, and addiction at childhood.” — Abraham J. Bonowitz, The Prison Show

Context

Bonowitz is walking through upcoming Florida executions. He notes two of the men scheduled attended a state reform school that Florida shut down after a federal investigation and later paid reparations over.

Transcript

The Prison Show Around 28:43 into the episode
Speaker 1

I am all right. It is Friday night, and glad to be with you all. Can you hear me okay?

Dani Allen

Absolutely.

Speaker 1

…who attended that school ended up on death row in Florida, if you can imagine that. The school was shut down after a Department of Justice investigation because of the abuse that was suffered by most of the people that attended. And in fact, last year in 2025, the state of Florida ended up paying reparations, compensation to people who went through all that. And I say this because, you know, it's pretty outrageous that they're executing people who went through something they recognize as abusive and experienced what we know is the common thread among most of the people that end up being executed, which is abuse, neglect, and addiction at childhood. And that's really, you know, if you haven't seen David Dow, Professor David Collingsworth TED Talk about how we're people who are for the death, probably and against the death, probably what we have in common where we meet, it's the corner where no murder takes place at all. And how do you prevent murder? By catching people before they fall through. So heads up on that. Anyway, we've got nine…

Dani Allen

Thank you, Abe. Have a great weekend.

Speaker 1

You too.

Dani Allen

Bye-bye. This is KPFT Houston. And big thank you to Carrie. Big thank you to Carrie. All right, you know what Linda has? I have a hundred dollar bill, guys, from Danny and I. And we want to find somebody to match it. How about that?

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