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NEW YORK FORUM ABOUT DEATH ON DONAHUE After It's Over, Will We Watch Seinfeld?
1994
Overview
For television, despite [PHIL DONAHUE]'s contention that it is the most accurate of mediums, has little chance of capturing the horror of David Larson's execution. The horror is not in the hideous moment of gas-chamber wriggling and gasping; that moment, in a strange way, must be mostly solace. The horror is in the time before, the time when a human being must brush his teeth, pull on his pants, watch TV, all the while knowing he is soon to die. And the horror for the rest of us - the horror that can't be captured on TV - is that the person now about to die is not the monster he was when he committed whatever crime landed him in jail. Now he's just a man, eating his dinner. [Helen Prejean] describes the days and hours before the execution of Pat Sonnier (who was quite possibly killed for a crime committed by his brother - but never mind, that's not the point). His last appeal denied, Sonnier inscribes the date of his own death in the family Bible. \"I remember Jesus' words that we do not know the day nor the hour,\" Prejean writes. \"But Pat knows. And in knowing he dies and then dies again.\" In Prejean's relentless telling, the actual moment of death is a relief for the prisoner - as undoubtedly it will be for the tense TV viewer, now freed to turn on \"Seinfeld\" or switch to Sally Jesse and watch whatever sad sacks she has assembled this afternoon.
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Newsday LLC
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