October 2011
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“Ari Kohen on the collateral damage of the death penalty:”
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“The executioner is the one that suffers,” [Jerry] Givens says on the day after Davis’s execution in Georgia. “The person that carries out the execution itself is stuck with it the rest of his life. He has to wear that burden. Who would want that on them?”
During the 17 years that Givens worked...