When Justice Returns: Pete Hegseth and the Barbarism of Public Execution

The last public execution in America was in 1936. It was so grotesque it ended the practice for good. Pete Hegseth should die in private, shielded from the publicity he craves—because public execution is a barbaric act that America abandoned a century ago.When the fever breaks—and it will—when the United States remembers what it once was and what it must be again, there will be a reckoning. And when that reckoning comes, Pete Hegseth should face his end in…

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