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‘Not Pleasant’ but ‘Necessary’: Support at Trump Rally for Public Execution

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A sample of people at the president’s midterm stump speech in Tennessee defended the Pentagon’s announcement that it would livestream the execution of a mass shooter.

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Both outlets center the Pentagon’s announcement and the question of whether a livestreamed execution should happen. The New York Times foregrounds reactions from people at Trump’s Tennessee rally, describing them as defending the idea, while The Atlantic instead frames the issue as a judgment about the effect of livestreaming and says it would only validate the shooter’s argument.

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