Fritz Jacob Haber est l’un des plus brillant chimiste de XXéme siècle. Il est né le 9 décembre 1868 à Breslau en Allemagne. C’est un criminel de guerre, un assassin en masse grâce aux armes chimiques qu’il a développées mais c’est aussi une personne qui a sauvé plus de personnes que n’importe qui avant lui.
Il est issu d’une famille juive qui n'était pas vraiment pratiquante. Siegfried Haber, son père est qui possède une entreprise de colorants et principal exportateur d’indigo naturel et sa mère, Paula Haber, est décédée quelques semaine après sa naissance. Fait très important, malgré ses origines juives, il a été éduqué dans le plus grand respect des valeurs germaniques, fessant de lui le plus patriote allemands que n’importe quel autre allemand d’origine et ce sans aucune exagération.
Vers la fin du 19éme siècle, l’Allemagne possède une grande industrie parfaitement harmonisée avec l’université, comptait énormément de savants, 11 fois plus de savant en Allemagne à l’époque qu’en France. Le jeune Fritz étudie la chimie et passe un doctorat en chimie organique en 1991, à l’âge de 23 ans. Il décide à ce moment-là d’abandonner le judaïsme pour devenir luthérien. Ce choix retirant les restrictions causées par le racisme des juifs. En 1901 il épousa Clara Immerwahr, qui comme lui est une juive convertie et aussi est doctorat en chimie, ce qui était très rare pour une femme à l’époque.
Parallèlement à ça, la population mondial, 1,5 milliard de personnes, dépasse largement la production de denrées alimentaires pour la planète, on prévoit avant 1931, la famine et les guerres serons les seuls moyens de rééquilibré les choses. La seule solution pour Fritz est de pouvoir synthétiser les engrais azotés, donc les nitrates, à partir de l’ammoniaque en prélevant l’azote directement dans l’air. Le problème est que le diazote est très stable grâce à ses trois liaisons covalentes, autrement dit, solide, difficile à détacher. Et en même temps, la course aux armements dû aux multiples crises de l’époque, demande énormément de nitrate car il est utilisé pour amorcer les explosifs et peux directement servir d’explosifs. Déjà, qu’ils n’avaient pas assez de nitrates pour juste nourrir les gens, le problème était de taille. Le producteur principal de nitrates à l’époque était le Chili. Fritz ce lança donc dans des travaux pour synthétiser le nitrates pour rendre l’Allemagne indépendantes.
En 1909, il réussit à fixer l’azote contenue dans l’air pour fabriquer de l’ammoniaque. En 1913 avec Carl Bosch, ils mettront au point le procédé de synthèse de l’ammoniaque. Procédé qui est à ce jour considéré comme la plus grande avancée scientifique et technique de XXème siècle. Maintenant l’Allemagne peut fabriquer autant d’explosifs qu’elle veut. Et par la même occasion ce procédé permet de fabriquer de l’ammoniaque permis aussi de fabriquer des engrais qui sauva l’humanité de la famine mondiale annoncé. Il eut le prix nobel de chimie en 1919 pour l’année 1918 au titre de l’avancée de ses travaux dans le « bien être de l’humanité ».
Mais ça pausera quelques problèmes car Haber est avant tout un criminel de guerre. En 1911, il devient le directeur de l’institut Kaiser Wilhelm de physico-chimie et électrochimie. Malgré la convention de la haye qui interdit l’usage de poison, de gaz toxique ou asphyxiant dans le cadre de la guerre, il se dit que ce serait une bonne idée de faire des recherches sur les gaz de combat. Il se pencha sur le chlore, assez lourd pour bien se tasser dans les tranchées, ça peut liquéfier : les muqueuses, les yeux, la bouche et les poumons. Les personnes qui en inhalent peuvent littéralement se noyer dans leurs tissus en liquéfaction, qui plaisait à Haber. Il est nommé Capitaine par ordre expresse du chancelier allemand en personne pour tester son gaz en guerre, à sa grande fierté.
Le 22 avril 1915, 168 tonnes de chlore son déversé au nord d’Ypres…en Belgique sous la supervision du Capitaine Haber. Bilan 5000 morts 15 000 blessés, tellement terrifiant que les Allemands ont réussi une percée de 7 kilomètres de large dans nos lignes alliées et qui décident de ne plus l’utiliser ! Mais par peur qu’eux aussi subissent des dégâts…
Suite à ça Fritz rentre chez lui, gonflé d’orgueil, mais sa femme l’interpelât dès son arrivé pour lui supplier d’arrêté de détruire le monde. Etant impossible pour sa femme de le faire changer d’avis, elle décida de se suicider en se tirant une balle, mais il y beaucoup de zone noire à propos de ce fait. Il n’a jamais eu d’enquête ou d’autopsie. Mais bien sûr après cette événement, Fritz parti le lendemain sur le front russe pour superviser une autre attaque.
Puis il retourna dans son institut pour améliorer ses procédés, il va notamment calculer le temps d’exposition et la concentration d’un gaz pour tuer un homme. Ça s’appelle même la « constance de Haber », encore utiliser aujourd’hui. Et il va également améliorer ses gaz de combat car évidement le chlore ce n’étais pas suffisant… Le phosgène et l’ypérite (ypérite en référence du batail de Ypres, une vraie âme de poète), ypérite aussi connue sous le nom de gaz moutarde. La particularité du gaz d’ypérite sont en plus d’être encore un peut plus lourde, pour encore mieux se tasser dans les tranchées, un simple contact cutané cause des blessures effroyables.
Il eu même de nombre offre pour monter des usine d’armes chimique mais il les refusât toute car l’Allemagne passe avant tout !
L’Allemagne après la première guerre mondiale, le pays est condamner à payer seul tous les dommages causé par la guerre mais Fritz pense que tout seul il serai capable de donner une solution à l’Allemagne pour tout payer. En voulant extraire tout l’or des océans malgré la très faible quantité. Il décida quant même de monter un bateau expérimental, parti en mer pour quatre à cinq an , couta beaucoup d’argent pour rentrer sans aucun résultat.
A l’arriver de la deuxième guerre mondiale, il eu une fuite des cerveaux, l’immigration des savant, mais pas Haber fidèle à son pays malgré son sang juif. A l’arrivé au pouvoir d’Hitler, Einstein est au Etat-Unis et Haber en France, Einstein explique alors à quel point retourner en Allemagne est dangereux mais Haber décida tout de même de rentrer dans son pays pour travailler. Après l’incendie du Reichstag, en 1933, siège du parlement Allemand, Hitler décide de mener une sévère répression contre tout groupe de personne qu’il n’apprécie gère ( homosexuel, populiste, démocrate,…). Toute ces population només doivent démissionner de leurs postes en fonction publique. Sauf les vétérans de guerre, notamment le capitaine Fritz Haber et son ami James Franck, prix Nobel de physique en 1925. Mais il doivent virer tout leurs subalternes, Franck refusa et démissionna. Franck tenta de résonner Haber par correspondance et Haber accepta après 6 mois, il démissionne aussi et quitta l’Allemagne. Il parti à Cambridge pendant quelque mois, comme l’endroit ne lui à pas plut du tout, il parti balte pour y mourir un an après.
Les Allemands après sa mort, ce pencheront sur un pesticide classique et avec une odeur suffisamment d’désagréable pour alerter les gens autour, pour l’utiliser comme arme. Ils se débarrasseront de l’odeur et augmenta la concentration du produit pour créer le fameux gaz Zyklon, responsable de la mort de 6 millions de personnes ; hommes, femmes enfants, y compris de membre de la famille d’Haber.

This is the second half of my list for Oklahoma's execution roster. As mentioned in the first part, I broke it in half to comply with reddit's character limitations. For the link to part 1, please click here.
The currently executed 124 offenders, cases 63-124:
63. Robert Knighton (~1960s-2003, lethal injection): In 1973, after being released from a 1968 armed robbery conviction, Knighton went on his first major crime spree. He stabbed and strangled several men and women during many robberies and home invasions. The only victim that was killed, 32 year old Coffier Day, was shot dead while Knighton was arguing with him in his home. Coffier's father, 53 year old Claude, was also injured in the shooting. Knighton's first crime spree ended when he kidnapped a married couple and their 6 year old daughter. They escaped when the wife and mother of the family attacked Knighton with a knife to protect her husband and daughter. The family then notified the police of their abduction. Knighton managed to secure a 30 year manslaughter conviction and a 10 year armed robbery conviction with a plea deal, and was released to a halfway house in 1989. There, he began dating a female addict and befriended a teenage boy. The trio embarked on a nationwide robbery spree together. In Missouri, they shot and killed 59 year old Frank Merrifield and his 40 year old stepson Roy Donahue while robbing their home, and stole guns and money from them. In Oklahoma, the trio fatally shot a couple, 64 year old Virginia and 62 year old Richard Denney, while carjacking them. Their rampage ended when a woman in Texas grow suspicious of them circling a neighborhood. Knighton had a long history of theft convictions dating back to his childhood, and joined the Aryan Brotherhood in prison. Behind bars, he frequently attacked black and Native American inmates out of racial hatred for them.
64. Kenneth Charm (1993-2003, lethal injection): Charm and his teenage cousin lured a family friend, 14 year old Brandy Hill, into their car. They raped Hill and tried strangling her with a towel. When that failed, the cousins bludgeoned her to death with a sledgehammer.
65. Lewis Gilbert II (1994-2003, lethal injection): Gilbert and his teenage accomplice committed at least 4 robbery murders in Missouri, Ohio, and Oklahoma, but he was executed for the killing of 37 year old Roxanne Ruddell. They ambushed and kidnapped Ruddell while she was fishing alone. She was robbed of $3 and her truck, tied to a tree, and shot to death. The pair also fatally shot Ruth Loader, a 79 year old Ohioan woman, while abducting her from her residence, and gunned down a Missouri couple, 86 year old William and 76 year old Flossie Brewer, in their home. Gilbert was also sentenced to death for the Brewer murders by the state of Missouri, but was incarcerated in Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s death row.
66. Robert Duckett (~1980s-2003, lethal injection): After breaking out of prison, Duckett was picked up hitchhiking by John Howard, a 53 year old store owner. Howard agreed to let Duckett stay with him until he could find a job. The pair soon had a failing out, and Duckett was evicted by his host. He retaliated by tying Howard up with wire and then beating him to death with a fireplace poker. Duckett made off with his car after he switched the license plates, and took several bank bags from his store. He had a long violent criminal history, which included several incidents of assault and robbery. One of the incidents involved the beating of an 83 year old man. Allegedly, Duckett was previously gang-raped by other inmates, and suffered from PTSD from the incident. His attorneys claimed that Howard’s sexual advances trigged those memories, and he was killed as a result of Duckett lashing out at them. However, the prosecution shot the argument down, citing that the murder happened after Duckett was evicted from the apartment.
67. Bryan Toles (1993-2003, lethal injection): Toles and his two accomplices forced themselves into the home of the Franceschi family, and shot and killed the family patriarch, 39 year old Juan, in a struggle. Juan's son, 15 year old Lonnie, was also murdered "execution style" out of fear that he could identify Toles and his accomplices. The only survivor of the attack was Norma, Juan's wife and Lonnie's mother, who escaped by hiding in her older daughter's bedroom.
68. Jackie Willingham (1994-2003, lethal injection): Willingham was a door to door salesman selling perfume in an office building. One women, 62 year old Jayne Van Wey, he tried to solicit rejected him despite his repeated offers. Angered by her "rude behavior", Willingham attacked Van Wey when they had a chance encounter near the building's restroom. He dragged Van Wey out of a stall after following her inside, slammed her head against the bathroom wall several times, and kicked her head. Reportedly, Van Wey choked to death on her own blood.
69. Harold McElmurry III (1999-2003, lethal injection): While under the influence of meth, McElmurry and his wife Vicki broke into a home that a WW2 veteran, 80 year old Robert Pendley, shared with his wife, 75 year old Rosa. Robert and Rosa were both quickly subdued and physically restrained by the couple. McElmurry clubbed Robert to death with a pipe in front of Rosa, who was forced to watch by Vicki. Vicki then held Rosa down as McElmurry stabbed her several times with scissors. After killing the Pendleys, the McElmurrys fled with $70 in cash, a pair of guns, and the victims' car. A few days after the murders, they were captured by border agents while trying to cross into Mexico.
70. Tyrone Darks (~1990s-2004, lethal injection): Darks rammed his ex wife, 26 year old Sherry Goodlow, off the road as she was driving with their 2 year old son. After Goodlow crashed, Darks pulled their son out of the wreckage, shot her to death, and then drove away with him. Just before she succumbed to her injuries, Goodlow managed to call and notify the police about her son’s abduction. The police confronted and arrested Darks at his home, and they found the boy unharmed in their search. Darks and Goodlow’s former marriage was marred with violence, and he was arrested on numerous occasions for assaulting her. On death row, Darks was involved in a scheme to defraud a foundation for 9/11 survivors.
71. Norman Cleary (~1980s-2004, lethal injection): While burglarizing an upper class home with an accomplice, Cleary shot and killed a housekeeper, 44 year old Wanda Neafus, and took her purse and a cane that her employers purchased from the Smithsonian Institution. Cleary had a long criminal history and was previously convicted of beating an 87 year old woman in her home.
72. David Brown (~1983-2004, lethal injection): For several years, Brown violently harassed his ex wife and her family. In one incident, Brown abducted his ex wife and 11 of her customers from a beauty saloon she owned, and held them hostage until he surrendered to police. He was able to leave custody on bond and went into hiding. A few years after the hostage crisis incident, Brown broke into his ex wife's family home and gunned down her father, 47 year old Eldon McGuire.
73. Hung Thanh Le (1992-2004, lethal injection): Le crept into the apartment of another Vietnamese refugee, 34 year old Hai Nguyen, and found him watching TV on the couch. He struck Nguyen from behind with a weightlifting bar, and continued stabbing him with a meat cleaver when he screamed his wife for help. Nguyen's wife phoned the police, and Le fled with the couple's safety deposit box that contained $36,000 and their wedding ring.
74. Robert Bryan (1993-2004, lethal injection): Bryan shot and killed his estranged aunt, 69 year old Mildred, dumped her body on his parents' property, and forged a $1,800 check to himself under her name.
75. Windel Workman (~1980s(?)-2004, lethal injection): Workman beat his girlfriend's daughter, 2 year old Amanda Holman, to death while babysitting her in their home. His ex wives reported that he had a history of child abuse and often violently spanked their children during their marriages.
76. Jimmie Slaughter (1991-2005, lethal injection): Fearing that she was going to tell his wife of their affair, Slaughter stabbed and shot his ex girlfriend, 29 year old Melody Wuertz, and their daughter, 1 year old Jessica. According to court documents, Slaughter mutilated both of their bodies, and he carved an "R" on Melody's stomach. He tried pinning the murders on a black man, but the investigators and the courts dismissed his allegations.
77. George Miller Jr. (1994-2005, lethal injection): During the robbery of a hotel, Miller attacked the auditor, 25 year old Kent Dodd, with a hedge shear and paint cans, and took $122 from the register. Dodd was severely beaten, had muriatic acid shoved down his throat, and was left to die. Just before he died of his injuries, Dodd gave a description of his attacker to the police that matched Miller. A massive amount of circumstantial evidence, such as wearing shoes that resembled the bloodstained footprints next to Dodd's body, a microscopic drop of blood found on his shoes that was tentatively linked to Dodd, his wife's testimony of his unaccounted absence from their home during the murder, and what appeared to be Dodd writing Miller's alias that he knew him by in his own blood, convicted him. Miller’s friends also reported that he was broke and begging them for money a day before the murder, and his wife mentioned him giving her the same amount of money that was stolen from the robbery a day after it happened.
78. Michael Pennington (1991-2005, lethal injection): Pennington shot and killed a clerk, 20 year old Bradley Grooms, while trying to rob a 7-eleven grocery store. He left empty handed when the register failed to open.
79. Kenneth Turrentine (1994-2005, lethal injection): Under the belief that they were stealing money from him for drugs, Turrentine shot and killed his sister, 48 year old Avon Stevenson, and his girlfriend, 39 year old Anita Richardson, during confrontations in their homes. He also gunned down Anita's two children, 22 year old Tina Pennington and 13 year old Martise.
80. Richard Thornburg Jr. (1996-2006, lethal injection): A month after he was shot by an unknown assailant, Thornburg and his accomplices sought revenge by abducting 5 men that he thought was responsible from a trailer. Three of the hostages, 51 year old James Poteet, 39 year old Tery Sheppard, and 24 year old Kieth Smith, were gunned down on the spot, and Thornberg forced the fourth to shoot the fifth with the threat of killing him if he didn’t comply. They then burned down the trailer with the wounded fifth victim still trapped inside, but he managed to escape with his life. Despite being forced to put all the blame on himself in exchange for being spared, the fourth hostage still went forward to the police.
81. John Boltz (1984-2006, lethal injection): To spite his estranged wife following an argument, Boltz attacked her son, 23 year old Doug Kirby, with a knife. Kirby was stabbed a total of 11 times, and he received several fatal wounds to his chest, stomach, and neck.
82. Eric Patton (1994-2006, lethal injection): Patton forced his way into the home of 56 year old Charlene Kauer after she refused his pleading for money. After dragging her around the house as he searched for valuables, Patton stabbed Kauer several times with many different blades objects at hand such as scissors, barbecue forks, and kitchen knifes. Although he confessed to the murder, Patton blamed it on alleged demonic possession and his cocaine addiction.
83. James Malicoat (1997-2006, lethal injection): Malicoat slammed Tessa Leadford, his 13 month old daughter, against a dresser. After she died from the beating, he tucked her into bed, and waited until his daughter's mother returned from work to take her to the hospital. The doctors found that Leadford had been dead for several hours at the time of her arrival, and discovered several injuries such as broken ribs, bite marks, abdominal bleeding, and facial bruising on her body. By his own account, he had abused Leadford on a daily basis. For her role in enabling her boyfriend's treatment of their daughter, Leadford's mother was convicted of first degree murder and given a life sentence.
84. Corey Hamilton (1992-2007, lethal injection): During the robbery of a restaurant, Hamilton shot and killed 4 employees, 26 year old Sandy Lara, 24 year old Stephen Williams, 19 year old Ted Kindley, and 17 year old Joseph Gooch, and made off with $2,000.
85. Jimmy Bland (~1975-2007, lethal injection): Bland shot his boss, 62 year old Doyle Rains, in the head over an argument regarding a borrowed car and dumped the body in a creek. He was previously convicted of killing a soldier, Raymond Prentice (age unknown), and abducting the man's wife and son at the age of 19. Bland served a 20 out of 60 year sentence, and murdered Rains a year after he was released.
86. Frank Welch (~1987-2008, lethal injection): In 1987, Welch attacked 28 year old Jo Cooper, who was 4 months pregnant with her second child, in her home. She was tied up with leather straps, raped and violated with plastic toys, and strangled to death. Cooper’s body was found laying near her infant son by her husband. Another woman, 32 year old Debra Stevens, was also bound, raped, and strangled to death in her home in a near identical fashion a few months later. Although both murders went unsolved for several years, Welch abducted and raped a woman in 1994, and he received a 45 year sentence for it. His DNA samples was collected and filed after his abduction conviction, and linked to both Cooper and Stevens’ murders in a 1997 test.
87. Terry Short (1995-2008, lethal injection): In an attempt to kill his ex girlfriend, Short blew up her apartment complex with a firebomb. She and her family managed to escape, but the blast killed Ken Yamamoto, a 22 year old Japanese exchange student. Yamamoto had no connections to the targeted ex girlfriend's family beyond him having the misfortune of residing in the same apartment.
88. Jessie Cummings Jr. (1991-2009, lethal injection): Cummings was a polygamist that had married and lived with two wives. Under his orders, Cummings’ wives shot and killed his estranged half sister, 46 year old Judy Mayo, and kidnapped her daughter, 11 year old Melissa. He bound his niece to his bed with handcuffs to be raped, and stabbed her to death.
89. Darwin Brown (1995-2009, lethal injection): While robbing a grocery store with three accomplices (including Billy Alverson and Michael Wilson), Brown tied up the clerk, 30 year old Richard Yost, with handcuffs, and then bludgeoned him death with a metal baseball bat. The killing was caught by security cameras, and the footage was used by the prosecution to secure the convictions of Brown and his accomplices.
90. Donald Gilson (1995-2009, lethal injection): Gilson routinely physically abused his live in girlfriend's 5 children (who were all between the ages of 8 and 12 years old). The youngest, 8 year old Shane Coffman, was beaten to death with a board for defecating on the living room carpet. He and his girlfriend then hid the body by stuffing it in a freezer. The body was kept inside it for 6 months until it was discovered by a sheriff's deputy investigating the family's abuse allegations. Gilson's girlfriend was spared the death penalty with a plea deal, and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for her part in her son's abuse and murder.
91. Michael DeLozier (1995-2009, lethal injection): While camping with his friends, DeLozier ambushed another pair of campers, 60 year old Orville Bullard and 54 year old Paul Morgan, and shot them to death. They stole Morgan and Bullard's generator, pick up truck, and other camping gear. To cover up their tracks, DeLozier and his friends set their victims' campsite on fire, and severely burned the bodies.
92. Julius Young (1993-2010, lethal injection): For breaking off their relationship, Young beat his ex girlfriend, 20 year old Joyland Morgan and her 6 year old son Kewan, to death with a baseball bat in their apartment.
93. Donald Wackerly II (1996-2010, lethal injection): Wackerly and his wife ambushed and gunned down Pan Sayakhoummane, a 51 year old Laotian immigrant, while he was fishing in the Arkansas River. After he placed Sayakhoummane's body in the man’s own truck, he pushed into a river, and stole his fishing gear. A few months after the murder, Wackerly’s wife turned him in to the police.
94. John Duty (~1970s-2010, lethal injection): Duty was given a life sentence for abducting, raping, and non fatally shooting a female store clerk during a robbery. While incarcerated, he tricked a fellow inmate, 22 year old Curtis Wise Jr. into allowing himself to be tied up as a part of a hostage ruse, and then strangled him to death with shoelaces. At the time of his murder, Wise was serving a conviction for burglary and contributing to the delinquency of minors. Duty's execution caused some controversy for the use of pentobarbital, a drug more commonly utilized by veterinarians to euthanize pets.
95. Billy Alverson (1995-2011, lethal injection): Alverson assisted the above mentioned Darwin Brown and Micheal Wilson in the beating death of Richard Yost while robbing a convenience store.
96. Jeffrey Matthews (1994-2011, lethal injection): Matthews and his accomplice shot and killed his great uncle, 77 year old Otis Short, while robbing the man's home. In the robbery, they stole Short's truck, his .32 calibre pistol, and $500. The pair also slit the throat of Short's wife, but she survived her injuries.
97. Gary Welch (~1993-2011, lethal injection): During a fight over a drug shipment, Welch and his partner stabbed another dealer, 32 year old Robert Hardcastle, to death with broken glass bottles. He was previously convicted of battery with a deadly weapon, and was off on probation at the time of Hardcastle's murder.
98. Timothy Stemple (1996-2012, lethal injection): Stemple conspired with his girlfriend to murder his wife, 30 year old Trisha, for her life insurance policy. With the help of his girlfriend's 16 year old nephew or cousin [sources vary], Stemple beat Trisha with a baseball bat, and rammed her to death with his truck.
99. Michael Selsor (~1975-2012, lethal injection): Selsor and his accomplice went on a crime spree and robbed several convenience stores. During their robberies, the pair shot and killed two clerks, 55 year old Clayton Chandler and 20 year old Ina Morris, and injured two others in shooting and stabbing attacks.
100. Michael Hooper (~1992-2012, lethal injection): Hooper kidnapped his ex girlfriend, 23 year old Cynthia Jarman, and her children, 5 year old Timothy and 3 year old Tonya, from her boyfriend's residence. He shot all three of them dead, and buried the bodies in a rancher's field. According to court documents, Hooper was hyper-violent towards Cynthia in their year long relationship.
101. Garry Allen (1986-2012, lethal injection): Allen shot and killed his fiancee, 24 year old Lawanna Titsworth, during an argument at a day care she worked at. He fought with the responding officers trying to arrest him in an attempt to provoke a "suicide by cop" outcome. Despite the officers' best efforts to avoid harming him, Allen lost his eye from an accidental discharge. Due to claims of him having schizophrenia, Allen's execution was a source of controversy.
102. George Ochoa (~1993-2012, lethal injection): A Southside Locos gang member, Ochoa and another hoodlum shot and killed a couple, 38 year old Francisco Morales and 35 year old Maria Yanez, while burglarizing their home. The murders were witnessed by the couple's 14 year old and 10 year old children and stepchildren, who then phoned the police after the shooters' departure.
103. Steven Thacker (~1980s-2012, lethal injection): Thacker kidnapped 25 year old Laci Hill during a botched robbery of her home, and took her to a remote cabin to be raped. She was then strangled and stabbed to death. He fled to Missouri, fatally stabbed 24 year old Forrest Boyd while carjacking him, and used his car to hide out in Tennessee. After the stolen car broke down, Thacker called a tow truck to pick him up. When the driver, 52 year old Ray Patterson, found that he was using a stolen credit card, Thacker stabbed him to death as well. As a teenager, Thacker committed several acts of auto thefts and burglaries. He also engaged in inappropriate relationships with underaged girls, and was released from a Florida prison after serving time for a bad check conviction months before his murders.
104. James DeRosa (2000-2013, lethal injection): DeRosa and his accomplice tricked a couple, 73 year old Curtis and 70 year old Gloria Plummer, that he worked for on their ranch, into letting them inside their house. After they stabbed the Plummers and slit their throats, DeRosa and his accomplice stole $73 and drove away with their truck.
105. Brian Davis (2001-2013, lethal injection): Davis went searching for his girlfriend and their daughter when he found them missing from their home, and called his girlfriend's mother, 56 year old Josephine Sanford, about their whereabouts. Sanford dropped by the couple's residence after failing to find her daughter and granddaughter. At her arrival, she was raped, beaten, and stabbed to death by Davis. He then left the body in the house, drove off with Sanford’s van, and injured himself in a car accident. As Davis was high while driving, he was arrested for being under the influence. The detaining officers weren’t aware of the murder until Davis’ girlfriend returned to the home later that night, and called 911 after finding her mother’s corpse.
106. Anthony Banks (~1978-2013, lethal injection): In 1978, while robbing a grocery store, Banks shot and killed a clerk, 22 year old David Fremin. A year later, he abducted Sun Travis, a 24 year old South Korean immigrant, from a parking lot. He then sexually assaulted Travis in his car and shot her in the head. Although he was captured and convicted for Fremin's murder, Travis' killing went unsolved until a 1997 DNA test. Banks was originally sentenced to death for Fremin's murder, but it was lifted in favor of a life sentence. He was condemned for a second time after his conviction for Travis' murder.
107. Ronald Lott (~1980s-2013, lethal injection): A sexual predator of elderly women, Lott broke into the homes of 93 year old Zelma Cutler and 83 year old Anna Fowler after cutting off their power. They were tied up with cloth, anally penetrated, beaten, and suffocated to death with pillowcases. The case attracted controversy when another man was erroneously condemned for the murders, and he spent 11 years on death row until a 1997 DNA test linked the murders to Lott. At the time of the discovery, Lott was serving time for two rape convictions.
108. Johnny Black (~1984-2013, lethal injection): Black, two of his brothers, and two other men went looking for a man they feuded with for a fight. While they were crusing on the road, the group encountered a rancher, 54 year old Bill Pogue, and mistook him for their target due to them driving similar vehicles. They forced Poque off the road, pulled him out of his car, and stabbed him a total of 10 times. Pogue's son in law was also dragged out and attacked, but he managed to escape with his life. Black was previously convicted of manslaughter for shooting 49 year old Cecil Martin dead in an argument.
109. Michael Wilson (1995-2014, lethal injection): Wilson was the third participant in the above mentioned beating death of Richard Yost to be executed.
110. Kenneth Hogan (1988-2014, lethal injection): Hogan stabbed 21 year old Lisa Stanley to death while she was babysitting his children. According to autopsy reports, she was stabbed at least 25 times. Stanley had previously accused him of sexual misconduct, and prosecutors believed that she was killed during an argument over the allegations.
111. Clayton Lockett (~1992-2014, lethal injection): Lockett, his cousin, and another accomplice kidnapped 23 year old Bobby Bornt, 18 year old Summer Hair, and Bornt's 9 month son after burglarizing a home. After tying them up with duct tape, they forced their captives to lure a friend, 19 year old Stephanie Neiman, with a phone call. Neiman was also bound and initially survived getting shot multiple times. Out of frustration, Lockett buried her alive, and she succumbed to a combination of suffocation and her injuries. Lockett and his accomplices also gang-raped Hair and beat Bornt, but spared them on the forced condition of their silence. His execution was controversial, as Lockett convulsed for 45 minutes after being injected, and then died from a heart attack. He also had a long criminal history, and was first arrested for burglary as a teenager.
112. Charles Warner (1997-2015, lethal injection): Warner raped his girlfriend's daughter, 11 month old Adriana Waller, and shook her to death. His execution sparked outcry, as the wrong fatal drug was administered by mistake, and Warner complained of "burning pain" as he was being injected. With the botched executions of Lockett and Warner back to back, the state of Oklahoma delayed further executions until 2021.
113. John Grant (~1970s-2021, lethal injection): While serving a 130 year sentence for armed robbery, Grant stabbed a prison cafeteria worker, 58 year old Gay Carter, to death. He had a long criminal history dating back to the age of 11, had several previous convictions of theft and armed robbery, and frequently fought with and assaulted other inmates behind bars. Due to reports of "adverse reactions" to the lethal drugs, Grant's execution was scrutinized by a number of national media outlets.
114. Bigler Stouffer II (1985-2021, lethal injection): Stouffer shot and killed his ex girlfriend, 35 year old Linda Reaves, in her boyfriend's home for breaking up with him. Reaves' boyfriend was also seriously injured in the shooting.
115. Donald Grant (2001-2022, lethal injection): During a robbery of a hotel, Grant fatally shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned two employees, 43 year old Felicia Smith and 29 year old Brenda McElyea, and ran off with $1,500. He spent $200 of the stolen on paying for his girlfriend's bail.
116. Gilbert Postelle (~1998-2022, lethal injection): Postelle’s father was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, and they suspected that 57 year old James Anderson, 56 year old Terry Smith, 49 year old Donnie Swindler, and 26 year old Amy Wright were deliberately involved. Out a desire for vengeance, he recruited Postelle, his other son, and another man to kill them. All four victims were fatally gunned down in what was described as a “blitz attack” on their trailer. He was an addict and had several arrests for drug possession and manufacturing dating back to the age of 12.
117. James Coddington (1997-2022, lethal injection): After robbing a grocery store, Coddington went to the home of a friend and co worker, 73 year old Albert Hale, to ask for money. When Hale turned him down, Coddington retaliated by beating him with a claw hammer. Coddington stole $525 and went on to rob 5 more grocery stores. Hale was left alone with his injures for nearly an entire day until he was discovered by his son, and died in the hospital a day later.
118. Benjamin Cole Sr. (2002-2022, lethal injection): Out of anger that her crying interrupted his Nintendo game, Cole beat his daughter from his second wife, 9 month old Brianna, to death. He was previously convicted of abusing his son from a different marriage in California.
119. Richard Fairchild (1996-2023, lethal injection): Fairchild got into a fight with his girlfriend’s 17 year old daughter after making drunken sexual passes at her, and was enraged that she left with a cab driver. He took his anger out on the girl’s younger brother, 3 year old Adam Broomhall, and scalded him with a wall heater. He then repeatedly hit the boy, threw him against a table, and fatally hemorrhaged his head. Bromhall received over 26 blows during the beating.
120. Scott Eizember (2003-2023, lethal injection): Eizember snuck into his ex girlfriend's house to lie in wait for her. However, her roommates, 76 year old A.J. Cantrell and his 70 year old wife Patsy, arrived home earlier then she did. He shot and beat them both to death and then fled the scene.
121. Jemaine Cannon (1995-2023, lethal injection): Cannon was put in prison for assaulting an unidentified woman. He managed to escape and stabbed his girlfriend, 20 year old Sharonda Clark, to death in her apartment.
122. Anthony Sanchez (1996-2023, lethal injection): Sanchez kidnapped 21 year old Jewell Busken from her apartment complex, and then raped and shot her to death. He amassed a following from the anti death penalty movement for claiming that his father was responsible, but such notions were debunked following a 2023 DNA test that concluded Sanchez’s guilt.
123. Phillip Hancock (~1982-2023, lethal injection): In 1982, Hancock shot a drug dealer, 27 year old Charles Warren, dead in a dispute over stolen jewelry and was given a manslaughter conviction for it. He was released after serving a 2 year term. About 17 years later, he shot and killed 58 year old James Lynch III and 37 year old Robert Jett Jr. in a drug house. Despite an eyewitness account describing Lynch and Jett begging for their lives, the case attracted scrutiny when Hancock's attorneys claimed that the shootings were done in self defense.
124. Michael Smith (~2002-2024, lethal injection): A member of the Oak Grove Posse gang, Smith was responsible for two separate fatal shootings on the same day. In one of his murders, he killed Sharath Pulluru, a 24 year old Indian immigrant that worked as a clerk, while robbing a gas station. The other murder occurred when he tried to confront a gang member that he thought was a police informant in his apartment, and gunned down the target’s mother, 40 year old Janet Miller-Moore, when she refused to give away her son’s location. Smith was also given a life sentence for delivering a gun to a shooter that carried out another gang killing.

So this one is a bit of an anomaly. I searched up Ben Stiller movies after watching dodgeball (hilarious) the other night and found Envy (2004) with Jack Black, which I had completely forgotten about. I vaguely remembered the story but not really. The premise is that BS and JB work together in a factory, and JB is always coming up with these wild inventions to get rich. Once he comes up with the invention for a spray that eliminates poop, of any variety (he markets it towards dog owners though) the “Vapoorizer”, I remembered the ending! I needed to watch it until the end to see it again!
JB becomes a billionaire with his invention, his wife (Amy Poehler) decides to run for office and faces critics asking “Where does the sh*t go??” this is a running theme throughout the movie. People wanna know when the poo disappears, where does it go. Understandable.
What I vividly remembered: there has to be a downfall and this is no exception. In the end, I remember something happens (this Im unclear about) but all of the poo that was “vapoorized” just reappears! It’s like because of JB’s product there is no poo, and then there is an event that causes the poo to simply be there again. Like the poo was only camouflaged, it wasn’t actually gone. So there was the protesters answer: the poo went nowhere, the poo was just rendered invisible. Amazing!
But as I watched again, until the bitter end just to see the sh*t hit the fan literally, I was shocked to see that the ending was COMPLETELY different and there was no reappearing poo. In fact they never addressed where the poo actually went after all. The movie ended with the product being deemed poisonous as was determined when JB’s prized horse who died was autopsied. That was literally it. There was no mention of people complaining of family pets dying or anything, which would be the obvious choice of foreshadowing for this type of ending. It made no sense to me!!
Does anyone remember this? I mean it’s such an obscure movie that I forgot it existed in the first place but it’s actually a pretty excellent early 2000’s flick. But how would I have made up a way better alternative ending, and pictured it vividly, if it never actually existed. This is driving me wild right now!

ELİSA LAM

Elevator Video

Lam traveled from Vancouver, Canada to Los Angeles, United States. After arriving in Los Angeles, she stayed at the Cecil Hotel and shortly after went missing. The Los Angeles Police Department searched for clues for a week before releasing a video containing Lam's last moments before her death. The video was obtained from the hotel's elevator security camera. The viral video shows Lam pressing multiple floor buttons in the elevator and looking out of the elevator. She then suddenly takes a few steps, sticks her head out of the elevator, and looks left and right before going back inside. She then appears to hide in the corner of the elevator as if she saw something frightening. After a while, she slowly approaches the elevator door and waits there for a moment. She takes a step back and looks to the left. Lam continues to exhibit strange behaviors by taking steps left, backward, and left again. She eventually exits the elevator and re-enters, making strange hand gestures as if she is talking to someone. After a while, she leaves the elevator completely and the door opens and closes a few times before she walks away. Lam's body was found 19 days after her disappearance. A hotel employee, Santiago Lopez, discovered her body in the water tank after investigating complaints from hotel guests about low water pressure and strange tasting tap water. Lam's body being found in the water tank raised many questions as the access to the tank is not easy. The water tanks are located on the roof of the building and require a key to unlock the door, which only hotel staff have. Lam could have used the fire escape to access the roof, but this would trigger alarms. The fact that no alarm was heard by hotel staff indicates that Lam did not use the fire escape. Assuming Lam somehow accessed the roof, the water tanks are 3 meters high, meaning a ladder would be needed to reach them. However, there was no ladder on the roof that night. Lam's clothes, watch, and room key were with her, but her cell phone was never found. This detail raised suspicions of foul play. The autopsy report revealed that Lam died of drowning. The toxicology report confirmed that Lam had taken some medications for bipolar disorder, but there were no signs of alcohol or illegal substances in her system. Reddit posts highlighted some details from the report, indicating Lam had taken at least one antidepressant that day, but had not taken her other medications. This raised the possibility that Lam's erratic behavior in the elevator could be related to her medication regimen. Testimony from hotel manager Amy Price in court supported this hypothesis, stating that Lam initially shared a dorm-style room with others but had to move to a single room due to complaints about her behavior. Despite Lam's psychological issues, questions remain about how she died. How did she manage to access the roof to commit suicide and get into the water tank? Why was her cell phone never found? These questions continue to fuel the mystery surrounding Elisa Lam's case.

In early February 2024, the 30 Millions d'Amis Foundation [T/N: "30 million friends", a famous animal rights organization] intervened at a kennel in Rambouillet (Yvelines), to rescue around 30 dogs. The manager, who was already convicted in November 2023 of serious abuse and cruelty to 3 canines, was still operating despite a ban on the practice and keeping of animals.

The cruelty of the acts of which he was accused and his repeated lies led the courts to impose an exemplary penalty. On March 22, 2024, a dog breeder was sentenced by the Versailles court (Yvelines) to particularly severe penalties following serious abuse and violation of a ban on keeping animals: 8 months' imprisonment with a committal order (the defendant was taken to the Bois-d'Arcy prison after deliberation); a permanent ban on carrying out any animal-related activity or a permanent ban on keeping animals.
Reha Hutin, President of the 30 Millions d'Amis Foundation, commented: "The fact that this individual has been sentenced to prison is a fitting punishment for the cruelty of the monstrous acts committed. The Court seems to have taken into consideration the sensitive nature of animals when applying sentences for mistreatment."
The facility had been on the judicial radar for several months. Isolated in the countryside around Rambouillet, in the Yvelines department, the targeted establishment included a kennel of American Bully XL (a breed banned in the UK since February 2024, editor's note), and French Bulldogs. Teams from 30 Millions d'Amis seized 29 dogs, including 11 Bullies, mostly females with enlarged udders. "The females have had many litters," says Arnaud, team leader at the 30 Millions d'Amis shelter in La Tuilerie. Most of the Bullies had undergone an otectomy, the cutting off of their ears: a practice banned since 2014, except for medical reasons.
At this "kennel", which also offered dog boarding services, Rocky, a German Shepherd placed temporarily, died on site and was buried by the manager, arguing that no veterinarian was "available to perform his autopsy". When Samira, his owner, heard the grim news, she went to the site and dug up the animal herself, handing over his remains to the Alfort Veterinary School. Rocky's ribs were badly fractured, and his small intestine was completely empty, attesting to a cruel lack of nutrition. He weighed just 20 kg [44 lbs], down from 47 kg [104 lbs] when he was boarded. "His teeth were dull and some of his claws were missing," says Samira.
Gasper, an 11-year-old American Stafford Terrier, was in perfect health when his owners dropped him off at this boarding kennel. Three weeks later, Gasper's eyes were burned out, and he had bruises and fractures all over his body... Devastated, his owner claims to have "recovered Gasper, emaciated and blind. He died in my arms 48 hours later". The veterinary report attests to mistreatment, beatings, deliberate spraying of caustic products in the eyes and lack of food for several days.
At a first trial, in November 2023, relatively heavy sentences were handed down to the manager, for serious abuse and cruelty to a domestic animal resulting in death, and mistreatment of an animal placed in the care of a professional. A six-month suspended prison sentence, a 5-year ban on any animal-related activity and a permanent ban on owning an animal were the main features of the sentence, which was provisionally enforced.
However, despite these bans, 29 dogs were still on site, including 6 in boarding kennels. They were taken in by the 30 Millions d'Amis shelter in La Tuilerie. This sordid affair is reminiscent of the "kennel of horror" case, for which the Fondation 30 Millions d'Amis also brought a civil action.
Source: https://www.30millionsdamis.factualites/article/24771-prison-ferme-pour-un-eleveur-de-bully-devenu-bourreau/

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Episode 13 — Host: Sydney Sweeney (OAD: March 02, 2024)

• PDD: Gone Too Soon, directed by Christopher Werner; Bowen’s Straight, directed by Tim Wilkime; Airbnb Design Commercial, directed by Mike Diva

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: Inside Politics
Monologue
Detectives	Chloe Fineman, Alison Gates, Ceara O’Sullivan, Asha Ward
Pretape: Please Don’t Destroy - Gone Too Soon	Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall
Air Bud
Big Bench	Kent Sublette
Pretape: Bowen’s Straight	Gary Richardson, Will Stephen, Auguste White, Bowen Yang
Makeup Artists	Jimmy Fowlie, Ceara O’Sullivan, Celeste Yim
Hooters Waitress
Pretape: Airbnb Design Commercial	Mike DiCenzo, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Jake Nordwind, Chloe Troast
Loud Table

Feature	Writes
Woman Who Is Aging Gracefully on Confidence	Jimmy Fowlie, Heidi Gardner, Alison Gates, Ceara O’Sullivan
Charlotte the Stingray on Her Pregnancy	Alex English, Ego Nwodim, Gary Richardson, Asha Ward

Episode 14 — Host: Josh Brolin (OAD March 09, 2024)

• Airplane Song, directed by Tim Wilkime; Shrimp Tower, directed by Mike Diva; Sandwich King segment, directed by Michael Mancini

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: State of the Union
Monologue
Bank Robbery	Jimmy Fowlie, Heidi Gardner, Ceara O’Sullivan, Celeste Yim
Pretape: Airplane Song	Andrew Dismukes, Gary Richardson, Auguste White
People Pleaser Support Group	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Bowen Yang, Celeste Yim
Wine and Cheese Night	Andrew Dismukes, Will Stephen
Pretape: Shrimp Tower	Dan Bulla, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Sarah Sherman
Shonda Talk Show
Moulin Rouge	Alison Gates, Bowen Yang, Celeste Yim
Sandwich King
Lisa from Temecula: Sports Bar (Recurring)	Michael Che, Alex English, Gary Richardson

Episode 15 — Host: Ramy Youssef (OAD: March 30, 2024)

• Guest Writer: Josh Rabinowitz
• PDD: We Got Too High, directed by Tim Wilkime; Ozempic for Ramadan, directed by Christopher Werner; The Hitman, directed by Mike Diva

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: Easter	Mike DiCenzo, Alison Gates, James Austin Johnson, Kent Sublette
Monologue (Stand-up)	Ramy Youssef
Couple Goals (Recurring)	Dan Bulla, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Jake Nordwind
Pretape: Please Don’t Destroy - We Got Too High	Dan Bulla, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall
Immigrant Dad Talk Show	Mike DiCenzo, Jimmy Fowlie, Marcello Hernández, Jake Nordwind, Ceara O’Sullivan
Team Captain
Pretape: Ozempic for Ramadan
Murder Detective
Tiny Desk Concert	Alison Gates, Martin Herlihy, Bowen Yang, Celeste Yim

Feature	Writes
TikToker Piper Dunster on Kate Middleton Conspiracy Theories	Mike DiCenzo, Jimmy Fowlie, Jake Nordwind, Ceara O’Sullivan
Flaco the Owl’s Widow on Her Husband’s Death and Autopsy	Megan Callahan-Shah, Josh Patten, Pete Schultz, KC Shornima, Asha Ward

Cut for Time Sketch	Writes
Pretape: The Hitman	Dan Bulla, Steven Castillo, Marcello Hernández

Episode 16 — Host: Kristen Wiig (OAD: April 06, 2024)

• Guest Writers: James Anderson, Paula Pell, John Solomon
• Pilates, directed by Mike Diva
• La Maison Du Bang sketch previously cut from the Timothée Chalamet episode

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: TBS March Madness	Dan Bulla, Streeter Seidell, Bryan Tucker
Monologue	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Kent Sublette, Kristen Wiig
Jumanji	Andrew Dismukes, Asha Ward, Auguste White
Pretape: Pilates	Rosebud Baker, Chloe Fineman, Jimmy Fowlie, Ceara O’Sullivan
Secretaries (Recurring)	Mike DiCenzo, Heidi Gardner, Jimmy Fowlie, Jake Nordwind, Ceara O’Sullivan
Retirement Party (Recurring)	Steven Castillo, Colin Jost
Go-Karts	Andrew Dismukes, Will Stephen
La Maison Du Bang!	Chloe Fineman, Ceara O’Sullivan, Bryan Tucker

Feature	Writes
Earthquake and Eclipse on the Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake and the Solar Eclipse
Aunt Linda on the Latest Hit Movies	Paula Pell, Kristen Wiig

Episode 17 — Host: Ryan Gosling (OAD: April 13, 2024)

• Guest Writers: Dave McCary, Julio Torres
• Get That Boy Back, directed by Mike Diva; Papyrus 2, directed by Dave McCary

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: Close Encounter (Recurring)	Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell, Kate McKinnon
Monologue	Dan Bulla, Mike DiCenzo, Ryan Gosling, Jake Nordwind
The Engagement	Mike DiCenzo, Jimmy Fowlie, Jake Nordwind, Ceara O’Sullivan
Pretape: Get That Boy Back	Jimmy Fowlie, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Ceara O’Sullivan, Chloe Troast
Can’t Tonight	Mike DiCenzo, Marcello Hernández, John Higgins
Beavis and Butt-Head (Recurring)	Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell
Doctor	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Bowen Yang
Erin Brockovich	Chloe Fineman, Alison Gates, Jake Nordwind

Feature	Writes
Resident Boyfriend Michael Longfellow on Weaponized Incompetence
Caitlin Clark on the WNBA Draft

Cut for Time Sketch	Writes
Pretape: Papyrus 2 (Recurring)	Julio Torres

Episode 18 — Host: Dua Lipa (OAD: May 04, 2024)

• The Anomalous Man, directed by Mike Diva; Penne Alla Vodka, directed by Christopher Werner; Teeny Tiny Statement Pin, directed by Tim Wilkime

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: Community Affairs	Alex English, Gary Richardson
Monologue
Young Spicy (Recurring)	Gary Richardson, Will Stephen, Devon Walker
Pretape: The Anomalous Man	Dan Bulla, Sarah Sherman, Asha Ward
Good Morning Greenville	Colin Jost, Bryan Tucker
Sonny Angel	Alison Gates, Celeste Yim, Bowen Yang
Pretape: Penne Alla Vodka
OBGYN	Rosebud Baker, Megan Callahan-Shah, Michael Che
Pretape: Teeny Tiny Statement Pin	Alison Gates, Martin Herlihy, Celeste Yim
Jingle Pitch 2 (Recurring)	Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson

Feature	Writes
Kristi Noem’s Other Dog Defends Her Owner
JoJo Siwa on Gay Pop and Her Bad Girl Era	Mike DiCenzo, Chloe Fineman, Jimmy Fowlie, Jake Nordwind, Ceara O’Sullivan
A Man Who Did Too Much Press

Episode 19 — Host: Maya Rudolph (OAD: May 11, 2024)

• Guest Writers: James Anderson, Emily Spivey
• PDD: Explore Page, directed by Tim Wilkime; Can You Pick Me Up, directed by Mike Diva

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: Mother’s Day 2024
Monologue	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Auguste White
Hot Ones with Beyoncé 2 (Recurring)	Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell
Pretape: Please Don’t Destroy - Explore Page	Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Will Stephen
Teacher PSA	Alex English, Gary Richardson, Asha Ward, Auguste White
British Cavemen	Dan Bulla, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall
Pretape: Can You Pick Me Up	Alison Gates, Celeste Yim
Coffee Commercial
Nurse Appreciation
Landscaping Service

Feature	Writes
RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Josh Patten, Sarah Sherman
A Woman Who Insists She’s Not Mad	Jimmy Fowlie, Heidi Gardner, Alison Gates, Ceara O’Sullivan

Cut for Time Sketch	Writes
T.T. and Mario New Album (Recurring)

Episode 20 — Host: Jake Gyllenhaal (OAD: May 18, 2024)

Sketch	Writes
Cold Open: Summer of Trump	Alison Gates, James Austin Johnson, Colin Jost, Kent Sublette
Monologue	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind
Dad Has a Cookie
Pretape: Scooby-Doo	Colin Jost
Beautiful Girls	Alison Gates, Kent Sublette, Celeste Yim
Bike Trail
Pretape: Fast Fashion Ad
Canceling a Flight (Recurring)	Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell
NYPD Press Conference	Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind, Josh Patten
Snake Eyes	Mike DiCenzo, Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson, Sarah Sherman, with an assist from Asha Ward

Feature	Writes
Two Cicadas on the Largest Cicada Emergence
Colin Jost and Michael Che Swap Jokes for Season 49 Finale	Michael Che, Colin Jost and the Weekend Update writing staff

Today's anniversaries are:
2001

• Venetian Snares - Shitfuckers! (electronic, idm, loud, wai cheng, analog, breakcore, horrid, jungle, Winnipeg)

2003

• Opeth - Damnation (Rock, Hard Rock, Metal)

2008

• L'Ocelle mare - Porte d'octobre (experimental, "l'ocelle mare", experimental, experimental folk, folk, noise, thomas bonvalet, Madrid)

2011

• Archspire - All Shall Align (brutal death metal, death metal, grind, metal, technical death metal, Vancouver)

2014

• Metá metá - Meta (Alternative)
  
• Squarepusher & Z-Machines - Music for Robots (Electro)
  

2015

• Becca Stevens Band - Perfect Animal ()
  
• Crown Larks - Blood Dancer (experimental, art rock, cat passions, drone, fabulous thunderbirds, free jazz, jimmy ray, minimal, noise, polyrhythm, prog, psych, space, space music, Chicago) Read our review.
  
• Éohum - Revelations, Aurora of an Epoch (blackened metal, burzum, death metal, deicide, dimmu borgir, doom metal, emperor, hecate enthroned, immortal, melodic metal., metal, traditional, Montreal)
  
• Forward unto Dawn - Alpha (metal, concept album, conceptual, groove, heavy, prog, progcore, progressive, Canada)
  
• Monobody - Monobody (rock, instrumental, jazz, math rock, post-rock, prog rock, Chicago)
  

2017

• Arca - Arca (Electro)
  
• Asira - Efference (metal, ambient, black metal, metal, post black metal, progressive black metal, progressive metal, Reading)
  
• Avelion - Illusion of Transparency (Rock)
  
• Bear - Ⅲ (metal, djent, hardcore, metalcore, progressive, Antwerp)
  
• Black Sails for Red Seas - Wave: Ⅱ (blackgaze, metal, post-goth, post-metal, post-rock, postmetal, postrock, shoegaze, sludegaze, sludge, Montreal)
  
• Dwaal - Darben (metal, doom, drone, post-metal, sludge, stoner, Oslo)
  
• Falling in Reverse - Coming Home (Rock)
  
• Fuoco fatuo - Backwater (death metal, doom, funeral doom metal, metal, Varese)
  
• Ghost Horizon - The Erotics of Disgust (black metal, ghost horizon, metal, post black metal, atmospheric, metal, post-black metal, Phoenix)
  
• Glaswegians - Severance (experimental, progressive rock, experimental rock, post-rock, progressive, progressive rock, Vancouver)
  
• Hologram Earth - Black Cell Program (black jazz, metal, black jazz, djent, meshuggah, prog metal, progressive metal, Amsterdam)
  
• Incipience - Bloom (metal, plini, animals as leaders, chon, cloudkicker, djent, instrumental, meshuggah, periphery, progressive, progressive metal, tesseract, Los Angeles)
  
• Jon Poulin - With Vigor (rock, acoustic guitar, alternative rock, independent, indie, instrumental, plini, sithu aye, stemage, viking guitar, Massachusetts)
  
• Jupiter - Jupiter (pop, art pop, avant-pop, drums, experimental pop, female vocals, indie, pop, Zürich)
  
• Omar Rodríguez-López - Killing Tingled Lifting Retreats (alternative, alternative rock, at the drive in, rock, the mars volta, United States)
  
• Soup - Remedies (Rock)
  
• Stolen Jars - Glint (alternative, chamber, indie, indie rock, math, Brooklyn)
  
• The Algorithm - Brute Force: Source Code (electronic, breakcore, electronic-metal, idm, metal, France)
  
• The Korea - Calypso, Act: Ⅰ (metal, metalcore, calypso, djent, korea, progressive, Russia)
  
• Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (Alternative, Indie Pop, Pop)
  
• Vieux Farka Touré - Samba (world, desert blues, vieux, vieux farka toure, worldmusic, Mali)
  
• Virulent Depravity - Fruit of the Poisoned Tree (brutal death metal, death metal, metal, technical death metal, progressive metal, Nashville)
  
• Wear Your Wounds - Wear Your Wounds (alternative, metal, rock, experimental electronic, indie rock, metal, post-rock, Essex)
  
• Zu - Jhator (alternative, experimental, drone ambient, jazz core, mathcore, metal, punk, Rome)
  

2018

• Barney McAll & Monash Art Ensemble - Zephyrix (jazz, monash art ensemble, all and everything, christmas music, composition, jazz piano, New York)

2019

• Matoutou - Alchemy (experimental, fusion, jazz, France)
  
• Null Entropy - The Singularity Recital (black metal, death metal, metal, electronic music, nullentropy, one man band, progressive metal, saxophone, science fiction, space black metal, Nantes)
  
• Ophiocordyceps - Delusional Infestation of Mutated Pathogens (death metal, metal, brutal, gore, slam, Trento)
  
• ადილეი (Adilei) - ადილეი (Adilei) (folk, georgia, polyphony, traditional, world, Tbilisi)
  

2020

• Ben Levin Group - Fake (experimental rock)
  
• Déhà - Of Fire and Infinity (experimental black metal)
  
• Fyr - Come Calamity (atmospheric black metal)
  
• Nakama - The People around You (progressive rock)
  

2021

• Ævangelist - Dream an Evil Dream Ⅲ (avant-garde black metal)
  
• Astral Oceans - Vacant Systems (progressive metal)
  
• Keor - Tearoom (progressive metal)
  
• The Dark Atom - Fragments (progressive metal)
  
• 桑原あい (Kuwabara Ai) - Opera (modern jazz)
  

2022

• Apostle & Floorless - Split (grindcore, doom metal)
  
• Hämärä - Ivory Tower (progressive metal)
  
• Noah Angel - Abandonne l'espoir (atmospheric black metal)
  

2023

• Aaron Myers-Brooks - Riff Missions Alpha (experimental rock)
  
• Ale Hop & Laura Robles - Agua dulce (world fusion)
  
• Alpha du Centaure - Careless (post-black metal)
  
• Armed-Jouissance - Stop Cop City (black metal)
  
• Asystole - Siren to Blight (death metal)
  
• Atemporal - Thorn Genesis (experimental death metal)
  
• Avowal - Transformation (black metal)
  
• Bacchus - Ⅱ (psychedelic black metal)
  
• Barney McAll - Piano Memoirs from Peggy Glanville-Hicks House (modern jazz)
  
• Christopher Chandler & Heather Stebbins - Roots (chamber music)
  
• Cicada the Burrower - Blight Witch Regalia (post-black metal)
  
• Covet - Catharsis (indie rock)
  
• Cursebinder - Drifting (blackened doom metal)
  
• Das Kondensat - Andere Planeten (nu jazz)
  
• Daughter - Stereo Mind Game (alternative rock)
  
• Devangelic - Xul (death metal)
  
• Dropout Kings - Riot Music (rapcore)
  
• Eastwood & Chadhel - Split (grindcore)
  
• Fire-Toolz - I Am Upset because I See Something that Is Not There (experimental electro)
  
• Fit for an Autopsy, Thy Art Is Murder, and Malevolence - The Aggression Sessions (deathcore)
  
• God Is War & Andrew Nolan - The Hunt (experimental electro)
  
• Grin - Black Nothingness (stoner rock)
  
• Grottos - Через топи (Čerez topi) (blackgaze)
  
• Gum Takes Tooth - Recovery Position (electro rock)
  
• Hathenter - Uûn Oœq Aæ (avant-garde)
  
• Healthy Living - Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief (noise rock)
  
• Humiliated - The Worm (alternative pop)
  
• Ison - Stars & Embers (doomgaze)
  
• Izrod - Sarajevski odisej (black metal)
  
• John Zorn, played by Chaos Magick - 444 (jazzcore)
  
• Kira Linn - Illusion (nu jazz)
  
• Lesotho - Through the Dying Light (post-metal)
  
• Lethum - Winterreise (post-metal)
  
• Llana - Traverse (indie math rock)
  
• Lo! - The Gleaners (post-metal)
  
• Looprider - Metamorphose (post-metal)
  
• Mast Year - Knife (post-hardcore)
  
• Matheus Manente - Unrelenting Mimesis (progressive metal)
  
• Maudiir - Soliloque (blackened thrash metal)
  
• Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, played by a Far Cry & George Lernis - A Gentleman of İstanbul (contemporary classical)
  
• Missing Heads - Spiral Galaxy (no wave)
  
• Mon amie Souffrance - Club social (post-rock)
  
• Oceill - Oceill (progressive metal)
  
• Our Throne - Withered and Forgotten (atmospheric black metal)
  
• Schroothoop - Macadam (world fusion)
  
• Scott Fields Ensemble - Sand (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Sól án varma - Sól án varma (avant-garde black metal)
  
• Stormhaven - Blindsight (progressive metal)
  
• Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope (sludge metal)
  
• Teun Creemers - Naamu (world fusion)
  
• The Korea - Яд (Jad) (progressive metalcore)
  
• Thecodontion & Ceremented - Split (death metal)
  
• Tina Fey & Louise - Split (experimental hardcore)
  
• Too Many Fish - 10 Years Too Many Fish (jazz fusion)
  
• Triogram - Triogram (modern jazz)
  
• Truie - Ménophilie (blackened grindcore)
  
• Vctre - Consigned to Oblivion (IDM)
  
• Whim Ensemble - Trees (avant-garde)
  
• Wild Beyond - Wild Beyond (black metal)
  
• Zio - True Waves (progressive rock)
  
• 小芥子 (Kokeshi) - 冷刻 (Hiya koku) (blackened post-hardcore)