Current Events > Last Week Tonight now dropping on YT on Thursday is messed up.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Because last night's was a certified banger in both depression and hype.

Main topic was their third run on the death penalty, specifically tied to how their own research.

Their OWN RESEARCH.

Into outing a manufacturer of chemicals that produce pentobarbital, one of the chemicals used in lethal injection executions, and specifically the one that the Trump admin used in their series of federal-level executions during his presidency.

The dealings of these companies are always kept secret, for reasons that make a lot of sense when you realize the death penalty is cruel and shouldn't happen.

The company had been suspected for some time, and essentially the LWT team used FOIA requests to get the information they needed about the company. More info in the article:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/08/john-oliver-lethal-injections-death-penalty

Abolish the death penalty.

yeah it was poaching hbo viewers i bet thats why they did it

The host continued his long-running stance that its morally wrong, there is no humane way to do it and any discussion of one is akin to coming up with the best way to fuck your mom, which is to say, theres simply no right way to do that.

Read this in John's alerted voice tone.

great episode

according to Oliver, a government representative accidentally told them, on two separate occasions, that the documents were taking so long to arrive because they were related to the death penalty which is whats known in the government world as a big, old whoopsie.

Honestly, five out of five on the post-call survey there, he added. This employee certainly helped me solve my problem.

this is hilarious

The fact they're even posted to YouTube at all still is good and surprising, considering Zaslav's in charge.