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Guest host: Steve Roberts
This week, several public radio stations aired a special featuring tape recordings from a Georgia execution chamber. Later this month, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will be executed, and survivors and relatives of his victims will be able to watch on closed-circuit TV. A panel talks about the political and psychological aspects of the debate over whether the public should witness capital punishment being carried out.
E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Stand Up Fight Back."
Eugene Volokh, professor of law, UCLA Law School
Michael Mello, professor of law, Vermont School of Law
Guest host: Steve Roberts
Newton Arvin was a well-known literary critic and professor at Smith College in the late 1940s and 1950s, but in the "Pink Scare" days of the 1960s his career was shattered once his homosexuality was revealed. In his new biography of Arvin, Barry Werth writes about this notorious case of privacy invasion.
Barry Werth, author
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