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A new must-see in DC

By Douglas A. Berman

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This article in the Los Angeles Times reports on a new museum about to open on the other coast:America's fascination with crime will take a new turn Friday -- opening day for the National Museum of Crime and Punishment.... This new museum seeks to downplay the fame given to criminals and spotlight law enforcement's investigative work.... A history of American crime leads visitors through the winding hallway with information on crime and punishment in several time periods. Visitors can place their head and arms in colonial stocks, participate in a Wild West shootout and flip through mug shots of infamous criminals.... Another gallery, an exhibit on the death penalty, holds scale models of a gas chamber, an electric chair and a guillotine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 18, 2008 (boomark / email).