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How a Management Professor Became A Spiritual Counselor on Death Row—The Experiment Podcast



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This episode of The Experiment was originally published on March 18, 2021 and re-aired on November 11, 2021.

Was anybody willing to be a spiritual adviser to a Muslim man on death row? That’s the question that went out by email to a local group of interfaith leaders in Indiana. Nobody answered.

After a week without responses, the management professor Yusuf Ahmed Nur stepped forward. A Somali immigrant who volunteered at his local mosque, Nur would counsel Orlando Hall in the weeks leading up to his execution. But Nur didn’t expect he’d end up standing beside Hall in the execution chamber as he was put to death.

“That’s when it hit me,” Nur says. “You feel like you’re complicit, that you are cooperating with the system. They assign you a role to play in this execution.”

In this episode of The Experiment: One man finds himself at the center of our legal system, and witnesses what gets sacrificed in the pursuit of justice.

Listen to The Experiment:

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-experiment/id1549704404

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/64nFJEu758qByG5l6kqg6F?si=fybR7dgXRX2c5pINkWgKaA&nd=1

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-experiment-3

Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLndueWMub3JnL2V4cGVyaW1lbnRfcG9kY2FzdA

In your web browser: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/experiment/

Further reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-putting-machinery-death-overdrive/617682/
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