Elizabeth Bruenig’s Op-ed – The Man I Saw Them Kill

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December 18, 2020

“The idea of execution promises catharsis. The reality of it delivers the opposite, a nauseating sense of shame.” Read Elizabeth Bruenig’s Op-ed in the New York Times about witnessing the execution of Alfred Bourgeois. The Man I Saw Them Kill.

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