death penalty

Is it time to bring back the gas chamber (like San Quentin's old beauty, above), or maybe the electric chair? Death-penalty opponent Richard Dieter doesn't think so.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Anatole France: Selections on war
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Anatole France
From The Wicker-Work Woman (1897)
Translated by M.P. Willcocks