Word: executioner
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IF THIS SEEMS short shrift for a major novel by one of America's foremost writers, well, it is. The book: as you might have guessed by now, is painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems...
HOPELESSLY TRAPPED by such drivel, the cast nevertheless plugs away with surprising spirit and energy. Less, unfortunately, can be said for other aspects of the production. The band consistently falters on the Carole King score, while the disjointed intrusions of motherly presence via large video monitors (with sequences by Melanie...
Evans was the sixth person to be legally killed since Gary Gilmore's firing-squad execution in 1977 ended a ten-year hiatus in capital punishment in the U.S. More than 1,100 death-row inhabitants face similar fates. One of them is Wayne Ritter, Evans' accomplice, who...
A PROBLEM WITH MACHINERY does not mitigate a crime, but it does change the responsibility of society toward the convict. Prolonging the execution, as was done to Evans, smacks of torture. Forcing him to endure another attempt, on the other hand, is torture of a different sort, one difficult to...
Having subjected Evans once to the prospect of facing death and having inflicted on him some of the physical pain of the execution as well, forcing him once again to go to the chair--this time merely to finish what was previously begun--seems not only cruel but unnecessary. For...