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Trump plan to revive the gallows, electric chair, gas chamber and firing squad recalls a troubled history

  • Written by Austin Sarat, Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Trump plan to revive the gallows, electric chair, gas chamber and firing squad recalls a troubled historyEmpty, but for how long?AP File Photo

The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and the firing squad.

Set to take effect on Christmas Eve, the new regulations authorizing an alternative to lethal injections – the method currently...

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