Niet ge-outsourced naar India, niet zoals bij hun vorige videoclips met loopbanden, moerasmonsters, Rube Goldberg machines, gekleurde trainingspakken, geroosterde boterhammen of andere bizarre streken, maar wel met een Chevrolet en ruim duizend instrumenten in de woestijn vlakbij Los Angeles.
To be in the company of Iran and China and Sudan as a leader among states conducting execution—and to have pioneered the medicalized or euthanized form of it that is now added to the panoply of gassing, hanging, shooting, and electrocution and known as “lethal injection”—is to have invited the question why. Why is the United States so wedded to the infliction of the death penalty?
