Report: Vance casts doubt on whether execution livestream ‘is actually going to happen’ as more Republicans join outcry – US politics live

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Vice-president joins lawmakers expressing doubt about decision to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan as Utah senator John Curtis states livestream ‘risks feeding the appetite’ ‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation Sign up for the US Breaking News email In a statement to the Guardian, Robin M Maher , the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, stated that her group is “not aware of any regulation or precedent for a military execution to be live streamed on the internet or otherwise made widely available to the public”. The report also notes that She added that “public executions are typically held in authoritarian countries to instil fear in the population, and to show the power and control of the government.”

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