Word: electrocutioner
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In a brief time of peace, photojournalism waged war against privacy. A decisive weapon appeared in 1924: the Ermanox, a miniature glass-plate camera with a wide-aperture lens. The camera could operate in dim light and without great intrusion. Erich Salomon, a German with a talent for discretion, stalked...
This time, the setting is a satellite TV network where Anchorwoman Christy Colleran (Kathleen Turner) is the best newsman in town. Screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds needn't change much else. Even with their pampered hair and fractured prose, these journalists can be as rapacious and fallacious as the old guys. Just...
All four Louisiana executions had been delayed because the condemned -- three of them white -- argued in part that the death penalty was disproportionately applied to killers of whites. But the Supreme Court rejected that argument in April, resolving the last major constitutional question about capital punishment. Louisiana would have racked...
Electrocution Engineering
Prison officials charged with carrying out executions tend to be ready but hardly eager for the new era. "I'm at peace with myself," says Missouri Warden William Armontrout. "But I wouldn't want to sit here and do a whole mess of these things." He recently had...