Commentary: Executions are the public's business, and they shouldn't be done in the shadows
by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2019
3 minutes
As opposition to the death penalty has grown in recent years, some execution states (including California under Proposition 66) have gone to great lengths to protect their sordid practice in part by trying to hide exactly what it is they are doing.
Arizona, for instance - which spent nearly two hours executing Joseph Wood in 2014 - has adopted a set of laws and procedures that let it shut off the microphone in the
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