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My Dad witnessed an execution. (5.00 / 2) (#15)
by caseyOR on Sun May 04, 2008 at 08:40:00 PM EST
This was in the late 1940s. He was a young newspaper reporter, not long out of the Navy. My hometown paper (in Peoria, IL) sent him to Joliet to cover the execution. It was the electric chair in those days.

He never forgot it. The experience stayed with him 'till the day he died. I was in high school when he told me about it. He thought he'd seen it all in WWII, but the execution was brutal and horrifying. He, by his own admission, had never given much thought to the death penalty until then. And he kept thinking, as he looked at the man being executed, "What is this guy didn't do it?"

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