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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Melley

US plans for livestreamed execution would put it in company with few nations

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The U.S. would join a very short list of nations that carry out capital punishment in public if it goes forward with plans to live-stream a military execution this year.

Only two countries carried out the death penalty in public last year, according to Amnesty International's tracking of 2,700 executions in 17 countries.

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