{
  "id": 15160875,
  "title": "El bienestar de los verdugos",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/el-bienestar-de-los-verdugos",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-17T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/opinion/2026-10-17/el-bienestar-de-los-verdugos.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "The death penalty is no longer the same as it once was. Pete Hegseth, the United States Minister of War, who seems to have been appointed due to his prominent American jaw, has resigned with regret from the livestream broadcast of the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the military psychiatrist who killed thirteen of his comrades in 2009 by shouting \"God is great\" in Arabic. Injured from the incident, Malik Hasan is now in a wheelchair, so the spectacle might have lost some of its intensity, as shooting someone standing up and seeing them trembling and collapsing from the bullets is not the same as doing it while seated. Trump and Hegseth wished to revive the cherished tradition of public executions, but these are times of decline in testosterone, as Hegseth himself cannot stop lamenting. In 1849, while traveling in Europe, Herman Melville encountered a crowd gathered and joyful at a hanging in London. Among that throng that day was Charles Dickens. The two greatest novelists of the era were that day in the same place, unaware of each other's existence or proximity, and both expressed similar horror at the double barbarity of the execution and the public that celebrated it as an obscene carnival.",
  "summary": "La modernidad tecnológica ha resuelto el problema de la cercanía física entre el que mata y el que muere: ahora basta apretar un botón y marcharse",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}