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A botched execution and plans for one in public show the US is conflicted about capital punishment

Americans have long been divided over executing the nation’s worst criminals. The country has had a longstanding but uneasy relationship with capital punishment that is highlighted by reactions to a botched lethal injection in Tennessee and the military’s plan for the first public execution in nearly 90 years. Both events have sparked renewed discussion…

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