The crowd was growing. Hundreds had gathered across
the road from the prison, bundled against the midwinter chill and
warming themselves with a clever vendor’s coffee and doughnuts. Though
dawn had not yet broken, the ground was littered with beer cans.
Celebrants lit sparklers, strangers joined in song, and children did
their best to stay awake. One family, the Cochrans, told reporters they
had left their home in Orlando, Florida at two o’clock in the morning so
they could be sure not to miss the festivities. They had brought their
six-year-old twins, Jennifer and May Nicole, because, Mrs. Cochran said,
“I thought it would be educational for them, kind of like a field
trip.”
The throng had appeared as if from nowhere: the day before, there was
only one man waiting outside Florida State Prison. His name was George
Johnson, and when the camera crews found him, he was standing beside the
trunk of his car, selling T-shirts for ten dollars apiece. “Do you
think it’s appropriate,” a reporter asked him, “to be making money off
some man’s execution?”“I don’t see why not,” George said. “He—”
The broadcast cut him off. Everyone already knew what he did.
Within hours, George was doing a brisk business. Printed in the bright red of cartoon blood, his T-shirts showed a sweating, wide-eyed man strapped into an electric chair, staring out at the viewer with an expression that managed to seem both helpless and imperious. The words splashed above him read BURN BUNDY BURN. The shirts were selling particularly well, George said, among women. ... [mehr] https://www.believermag.com/issues/201802/?read=article_the_end_of_evil
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