Reuters Editor Likens U.S. Death Penalty to ISIS Beheaders
Harold Evans said the electric chair is ‘almost as appalling, in its sense, as these barbarians who have taken the heads off journalists in the desert’
Reuters Editor at Large Likens U.S. Death Penalty to ISIS Beheaders (NewsBusters)
While promoting a book of news photography on CBS This Morning on Saturday, Sir Harold Evans, editor at large of the Reuters news agency, called the electric chair a “monstrosity” and said seeing a picture of one was “almost as appalling, in its sense, as these barbarians who have taken the heads off journalists in the desert.”
Of course, the imposition of the death penalty in the U.S. is reserved for the worst murderers, after lengthy trials and appeals, while the ISIS executioners beheaded innocent journalists as a way to terrorize the civilized world.
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