Criminal
Apr. 18, 2001
Per Ashcroft, Everything Remains to Be Seen for McVeigh's Execution
LOS ANGELES - My grandfather once told me he had seen a man hanged. "He kicked," my grandfather said. He meant that the public execution was a drawn-out affair, that the condemned man choked to death at the end of the rope rather than dying instantly from a broken neck.




LOS ANGELES - My grandfather once told me he had seen a man hanged.
"He kicked," my grandfather said.
He meant that the public execution was a drawn-out affair, that the condemned man choked to death at the end of the rope rather than dyi...
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