With EU chemical export bans taking their toll on lethal injection death penalty capacity in the States, Tennessee just re-legalized the electric chair and pro-death penalty activists in other states are pushing to bring back firing squads.
So, is a declining America just trying to ride the bomb down to the ground like a defiant Major Kong at this point?
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Columbia Pictures (1964)