Reposted by Sebastian Kratzer
Brilliant piece @katz.theracket.news, a former @apnews.com correspondent in #Haiti, on why Papa Doc 1964 comes to mind when pondering #Trump plan to livestream execution. As Edwidge Danticat said, intended result was to terrify & show "caligula has the power to choose” theracket.news/p/trump-want...
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Trump wanted a public execution. He just got nervous about how it would look.
Trump and Hegseth planned to livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution, then backed off. A 1964 execution in Duvalier’s Haiti explains why that retreat matters.