Author: James P. Hunter (James P. Hunter)

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A Media Circus

Karla Faye Tucker’s execution in February for a grisly double homicide turned into a circus, complete with roaring helicopters with searchlights, live broadcasts via satellite, throngs of death penalty supporters and protesters, and scores of reporters (including disapproving “enlightened” Europeans). Why such a frenzy? As detailed endlessly in the month before her death by such...