For the third time in Last Week Tonight’s 11 seasons, dating back to the second-ever episode, John Oliver looked at the death penalty in the US on Sunday evening. The host continued his long-running stance that it’s 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, there’s simply no right way to do that”.
But there have been some “grim developments” since the last time Oliver talked about lethal injections in 2019. Since then, the US has executed 91 people, including 13 at the federal level, all under President Trump.
