Stop Smiling & University of Chicago Press present a Q&A with Robert K. Edler, author of Last Words of the Executed, an oral history of capital punishment in the United States. Moderated by veteran journalist Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune.

Robert K. Elder is a journalist, book author, film columnist and a regional editor of AOL’s Patch.com in Chicago. In his introduction to the book, Pulitzer-winner Studs Terkel called Elder “a journalist in the noblest tradition”.

Recorded Thursday, June 10, 2010 at Stop Smiling Storefront.