Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. (August 2003)

Unjustly Executed

December 4, 2003 issue

Goodbye, William!

The lie was that electrocution was both painless and swift. In too many cases, it was anything but. Those sentenced to execution often suffered hideously and for long periods. Nonetheless, such was the blind faith in technology that the public continued to disbelieve what many witnesses reported.

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair

by Richard Moran

August 14, 2003 issue

Swordplay

January 20, 2000 issue

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