EYE FOR AN EYEA special edition of Yesterday’s News exploring the American criminal justice system at its most extreme, inflicting the death penalty.

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Although this episode stands alone, it is something of a follow-up to "The Shocking Death of William Kemmler," which I published about two months ago. If you remember, that execution went so badly that many thought it was a failed experiment. Indeed, it took the state of New York nearly a year to perform a second electric chair execution, but it did so with a bang, putting four men to death on the same day, July 7, 1891.

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Will it work out any better? Listen and find out…

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Music by Chuck Wiggins

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