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Themed Set: The “Ex” Stands for “Extrajudicial”

November 19th, 2008 Headsman

Somewhere in the foggy marches that stretch between a ceremonial Tyburn hanging and the many guises of lethal collective violence in the workaday world dwells the editorial discretion of Executed Today, keeping a lonely vigil at a forgotten customs-post.

What, after all, is an execution?

This site has dallied before, and will dally again, with those border cases — summary executions and borderline executions.

Joined thematically as near-executions, these next three days are of themselves as different from one another as three different killings can be … suggesting the topical breadth spanned by the ultimate sanction.

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4 Comments Add your own

1. wrappsilber | November 19th, 2008 at 4:34 am

ah, but like crowds beneath the gallows
patient, unruly
we will wait
bide our time until
2. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | November 19th, 2008 at 11:33 am

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3. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | November 20th, 2008 at 1:07 am

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4. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | November 21st, 2008 at 8:43 am

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