How a Traveling Salesman in the 1970s Became a Leading Opponent to the Death Penalty

A podcast with Distinguished Teaching Professor James Acker and Brian Keough, head of the University's M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives  --  Acker and Keough, among the founders of the University’s National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA), speak about the digitization efforts of a collection by M. Watt Espy, a researcher who spent three decades of his life gathering and indexing documentation of legal executions for what would become the nation’s largest database on capital punishment.