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WHEN AMERICA MAKES AN EXECUTION A SPECTATOR SPORT — HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING? “Bought and Paid” — conceptual editorial artwork accompanying Grace Notes commentary; not a documentary photograph of an execution. It is with such gutted appall that my thoughts take me back to the grotesque displays of lynching in America, where all-white gatherings of men, women, and children assembled to witness the brutal destruction of a human life. Some came as spectators, others as willing participants, and even photographs of these atrocities became souvenirs of the occasion. Today, we would prefer to believe that many of their descendants would be horrified, even ashamed, to be associated with such practices. Yet I am inclined to believe that a nation whose history includes the slaughter, displacement, and dispossession of Native and Indigenous peoples, so that others could claim their lands as their own, ought to have learned something about the depravity of violence exercised under ...
