1. Should Executions be Televised?
KQED proposed showing the unedited videotape late at night to minimize the possibility it would be seen by children and a brief description of the program's content to alert unwary viewers. ... But even denied direct access to the execution, people in places like Mississippi until the 1940s gathered "late at night on the courthouse square with chairs, crackers and children, waiting for the current to be turned on and the streetlights to dim". ...
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