Maurice Shema
speaker
415 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Maurice Shema’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.
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There'd been a question about his intellectual capacity.
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But by 2024, George saw that David Wood was again scheduled for execution.
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This time, George figured it would actually happen.
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And this time, he was finally off parole.
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So if he was going to speak up, it was now or never.
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Not long after George Hall called David Woods' lawyer, David Woods' lawyer emailed me, asking me to write about the case.
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I wasn't surprised.
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I'm a journalist at a nonprofit called The Marshall Project, where we cover the criminal justice system.
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I'm the death penalty guy on staff, as gloomy as that sounds.
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But I was surprised by who was asking.
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Greg Warchuk.
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I know Greg Warchuk as a big deal in capital defense work.
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He's been defending people on death row for decades, and even stopped one execution by winning at the Supreme Court.
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I'd asked him for an interview years ago for a book I was writing on the death penalty.
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He said no.
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He rarely spoke to reporters.
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But now here he was in my inbox.
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His email was polite and panicky.
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David Wood's execution date was only 17 weeks away.
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He wanted me to write about the case and all the problems he saw with it.
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