Execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad, but don’t make it must-see-TV

A government-ordered public execution hasn’t happened in the United States since Aug. 14, 1936. In that case, it was the hanging of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky, who was convicted of raping and killing a 70-year-old woman in her home. Ninety years later, another public execution is scheduled to take place on Dec. 3 in […]

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