Oregon: Execution debate up yet again
One hundred years ago, a condemned New Zealander was at the centre of a passionate debate on the death penalty in the American state of Oregon. Matthew Gray reports on a saga that is still playing out today.

A century has passed since an American hangman placed a noose around New Zealander Thomas Noble Joseph Faulder's neck and sent him plummeting...

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