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Public executions in the US were once a community spectacle. Then they stopped

Public executions in the US were once a community spectacle. Then they stopped
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Allowing the world to watch Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan face the firing squad in December would make it the first public execution since two hangings in the 1930s in Kentucky and Missouri drew crowds.

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