Vance casts doubt on whether execution livestream ‘is actually going to happen’ as more Republicans join outcry – US politics live

Vice-president joins lawmakers expressing doubt about decision to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan as Utah senator John Curtis says livestream ‘risks feeding the appetite’

‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation

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In a statement to the Guardian, Robin M Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said that her group is “not aware of any regulation or precedent for a military execution to be livestreamed on the internet or otherwise made widely available to the public”.