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Column by Philip Kennicott: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise to live-stream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will implicate the U.S. military in a spectacle degrading to its reputation worldwide.
washingtonpost.com
Column | This 1814 painting captures the moral gravity of public executions
As most countries know, dramatizing the absolute power of the state almost always humanizes the condemned.
