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THIS IS YOUR DEATH.
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- Author(s): Weisberg, Jacob
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New Republic. 7/1/91, Vol. 205 Issue 1, p23-27. 4p.
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Examines what really happens in capital punishment in the United States and the effort to allow the television broadcast of criminal executions in order to serve as a deterrent to would-be criminals. Problems encountered in various types of execution such as hanging, death by firing squad, death by electric chair, the gas chamber, and lethal injection; Resultant torture of the prisoner when something goes wrong with the method; Trend of executions being removed further and further from the community that compels them; Reversal of this trend if televised executions were allowed.
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