• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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        He was one of the last people to be hanged in the United States. August 14, 1936.

        It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.

        Regardless of the man’s crime, I’m not sure public executions are the way to go.

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          I personally don’t think executions in general are the way to go. Too many people get exonerated years or decades after their convictions.

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            I couldn’t agree more actually! I just wanted to choose one thing at a time.

            I took a university class about wrongful convictions in the early 2000s and a man came and talked to the class who had spent decades in one of the worst prisons in the country, wrongfully. It really opened my eyes at a younger age to how susceptible people are to bias and faulty memory.