"One Jump, One Whistle, and One Fart"

The hosts of Obitchuary are dressed as Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII for this episode, complete with turkey-leg microphones, and they open by noting that America's first public execution since the 1930s is scheduled for December at Fort Hood, Texas—by firing squad. "It feels like we'll live stream it," one says. "We'll have an execution party." That sets the tone for an episode that ricochets between dark historical curiosities, true-crime ethics, and the kind of gallows humor the show is known for.

The Krista Pike Execution and the Problem of Public Sympathy

The botched execution of Krista Pike—who at 19 murdered Colleen Slemmer out of jealousy—prompts a deeper conversation. Two doses of lethal injection failed; the warden quit; and the hosts point out that doctors don't administer lethal injections because of the Hippocratic Oath. "Isn't that crazy?" one says. "That makes sense though. And then it makes you think about the whole thing and you're like, this is kind of barbaric and this is kind of archaic."