Heavyweight: #18 Sven

October 18, 2018 10:21 AM

Sven was on a jury that sentenced a man named Paul Storey to death. He's regretted it ever since. Then, eight years later, Sven gets an email from Paul's mother. The original article that Maurice Chammah reported with Sven about his experience on the jury: My Regrets as a Juror who sent a Man to Death Row. Credits: Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.This episode was also produced by Stevie Lane, Peter Bresnan, and Kalila Holt.Editing by Jorge Just, with additional editing by Alex Blumberg.Special thanks Emily Condon, Maurice Chammah, Emanuele Berry, Caitlin Kenney, Jon-Mikel Tuttle-Gates, Amanda Marzullo, Mike Ware, Emily Fallis, Brian Reed, Sean Cole, Diane Wu, Christopher Swetala, Ira Glass, the rest of our friends at This American Life, and Jackie Cohen.The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Michael Hearst, Blue Dot Sessions, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records, and our ad music is by Haley Shaw.

The notes don’t mention that this was chapter two of a recent episode of This American Life, 658 The Unhappy Deciders.

posted by progosk (1 comment total)

I listened to this. It was extremely powerful and made me cry. There's a surprise here that I don't want to ruin. It's very uplifting. Sometimes our small acts of bravery have far reaching, world changing consequences we aren't aware of. It's never too late to do the right thing. You never know what might change because of it.
posted by xammerboy at 9:34 PM on October 28, 2018