Editorial: Execution is inhumane, no matter what method states use
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Mar 19, 2018
2 minutes
In the fall of 1607, a blacksmith named James Read was sentenced to hang for striking a representative of King James I in the Jamestown colony in Virginia. But at the top of the ladder that led to the gallows, he offered up details about a supposed mutiny in the making. Shortly thereafter, he was back at work and George Kendall, the putative leader of the plot, was tried,
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