‘A nation without shame: Trump’s America prepares to turn public executions into a grotesque blood sport’

America is preparing to turn an execution into a public blood sport, with soldiers lining up their rifles, a condemned man placed in their sights and the Pentagon broadcasting his death for the world to watch. Welcome to Donald Trump’s United States, where a country that lectures the world about civilisation is preparing to stage a spectacle of state-sponsored killing. It is a development so grotesque, so morally repugnant, and so utterly shameful that every American who believes their country stands for something better should hang their head in embarrassment. On December 3, convicted mass murderer former Army Major Nidal…