<p><span class="deck">One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Can it be fair? Humane? Does it deter crime? These very current questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as in the day of Timothy McVeigh.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It changed the course of capital punishment in America.</span></p>
