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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

A president musing aloud that he would have liked to livestream a killing, then graciously declining, is not restraint; it is a pitch meeting held in public with the network still on hold. The detour through a predecessor's FBI review turns a death warrant into a campaign flyer, which is a lot of partisan freight to hang on a sentence the military justice system handed down long before he weighed in. Execution as public spectacle is a deterrence theory the world tried for centuries, and most nations gave it up after concluding that what it mainly deterred was decency. Signing off a firing-squad notice with the same chipper thank-you he stamps on everything else tells you exactly how much weight this office now gives to the business of the state taking a life.

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