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Live broadcast: Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 people and wounded over 30 at Fort Hood in 2009, is to die by firing squad. Photo: Supplied
HUMAN RIGHTS

When killing becomes a spectacle

As the US plans a livestreamed execution and calls resurface in South Africa to reinstate capital punishment, Narnia Bohler-Muller argues why turning killing into a spectacle…

  • Narnia Bohler-Muller
5 min read