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Too Close to the Flame with Joe Ingle

Too Close to the Flame with Joe Ingle

When you think of prisoners on Death Row, what imagery comes to mind? Author of Too Close to the Flame, Joe Ingle, joins Sharon McMahon to talk about what it is like inside America's death penalty system. After spending 45 years working as a spiritual advisor to men and women on Death Row, Joe vulnerably shares his experiences of the final moments before they are executed, and sheds a light on how the legal system disenfranchises those who can not afford a lawyer. What is an alternative to the death penalty, and what might restorative justice look like?

Special thanks to our guest, Joe Ingle, for joining us today.


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  • Host: Sharon McMahon
  • Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon
  • Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder
  • Production Coordinator: Andrea Champoux

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Guests

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Joe Ingle

Joe Ingle is a death row pastor, and the founder of the Southern Center for Human Rights. A North Carolina native, Joe left the South after college, where he was transformed by experiences in East Harlem and at Union Theological Seminary. His forthcoming memoir, Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned Inside the Southern Killing Machine recounts his 45 years fighting against mass incarceration and the death penalty, and advocating for prisoners' rights across the South.