Taking a lethal seat
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Decapitation, stoning, hanging... Human justice has invented many ways to enforce capital punishment. In the United States, electrocution was for a long time the most common finish line for death row inmates. It is difficult to escape unharmed. But that’s exactly what happened to Willie Francis in May of 1946...
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Britain practiced the death penalty by hanging for a long time. It's a quick and clean way to deliver justice. It is also effective. It is indeed rare that the condemned person survives strangulation by the weight of his own body. But it happened to John Lee... three times in a row. It’s strange,...
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Published 06/12/24
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