Chiara Eisner, an investigative journalist who interviewed 26 execution workers to understand how their work affects them, tells us how she gained access to these workers - despite their identities often being kept secret - how they are selected for these roles, and what she learned about the physical and mental health toll execution work can take on those involved.

Kaigan Carrie is a criminologist, exploring what it's really like to be a prison officer. Connect with her below:

LinkedIn: ⁠Kaigan Carrie⁠

Instagram: ⁠@evolvingprisons

Dr Joel Zivot, an anaesthesiologist and intensive care medicine doctor, tells us about one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding lethal injection: that it is a painless form of execution. He shares a pattern he discovered while reviewing hundreds of autopsies of people executed by lethal injection - a pattern that challenges what we thought we knew about how lethal injection affects the body, and what that means for how we understand executions.

Kaigan Carrie is a criminologist, exploring what it's really like to be a prison officer. Connect with her below:

LinkedIn: Kaigan Carrie

Instagram: @evolvingprisons

This is episode 6 of a special 6-part series exploring the mental toll frontline professionals carry as they do vital work to protect all of us.

Sean McCallum is a crisis intervention and trauma consultant, and a watch manager in the UK fire service where he's served for 23 years. In this episode, Sean shares his view on why some experiences are traumatic for some individuals but not others, what might cause flashbacks and rumination, and how sleep - or lack there of - can shape how we process trauma.

Sean is not a clinician. His perspective comes from a person-centred metapsychological approach.

Connect with Kaigan Carrie

Website: evolvingprisons.com

Instagram: @evolvingprisons

LinkedIn: kaigancarrie