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The NYT notes that when Yeltsin was a Communist Party leader in the Urals, he ordered the destruction of the house and cellar where the executions took place, in order to eradicate a potentially important symbol for pro-czarist factions.
Now that executions are once again a normal part of American life--someone is executed in the United States once a week, on average--they, too, reliably bring on that clausural feeling.
In 1997, there were 74 executions in the United States, with a mathematically and morally tidy 37--50 percent--occurring in Texas.
The WP reports that according to Justice Department statistics, the 74 executions carried out thus far this year in the United States represent the highest number in any one year since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 and the most in four decades.
We all know something of what went on during the reign (1924-1953) of Joseph Stalin: show trials, purges, mass executions, death camps.