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On Sept. 2, 1983, Jimmy Lee Gray, sentenced to die for the rape-slaying of a three-year-old girl, entered the gas chamber in Parchman, Mississippi. But eight minutes after his execution began, witnesses cleared the viewing area, repelled by what they were seeing. Gray, suffocating and purple-faced...
Although lethal injection has become the most popular method in most states because of its pain-free "humaneness," in eight cases before Gacy's it was anything but. The most heartrending: the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, sentenced to die for murdering a policeman. On Jan. 24, 1992, in Conway...
Execution by the Numbers?
CRIME: Tales from the Execution Chamber 52
When he was President, Richard Nixon, for good or ill, always sought to take charge -- of his party, his country, the world. In his final book, the elder statesman sums up a lifetime of involvement in foreign affairs by admonishing his successors to do the same. "If the U.S. is...