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After languishing on Death Row for almost 25 years, convicted murderer Richard Moore (inset) now faces an agonising decision - choosing how he will be executed. The 59-year-old American has less than a week to pick his fate for fatally shooting a shop assistant in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, during a botched robbery in September 1999. Jail officials have told him he has three options : death by firing squad, electric chair, or lethal injection. If he can't make up his mind come Friday, he will be electrocuted by default on November 1. And as Moore mulls over how he will ultimately end his life, his Death Row dilemma has once again thrust the debate over state-sanctioned executions back into the spotlight. Although deemed 'humane' methods of death, each of his options come with their own nightmarish risks, which could see Moore facing a tortuous and excruciatingly painful end.

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Until this moment, the lanky man in khaki had been just a voice on the radio, beamed in from London . Now the 6ft 5in figure was the embodiment of victorious France as he towered over his compatriots in the sweaty, ecstatic throng packed into the Hôtel de Ville on the banks of the Seine. General Charles de Gaulle rarely showed emotion, but he swallowed hard on that day of wild celebrations, Friday, August 25, 1944, before he described the ordeal from which the City of Light had just emerged. Paris had been 'outraged... broken... martyred'. But now, he continued triumphantly, it was 'liberated. Liberated by itself! Liberated by its people with the help of the armies of France, with the help and assistance of the whole of France, of that France which fights, of the only France, the true France, the eternal France!'.

In 1935 the exquisitely pretty Paget sisters - identical twins who were also the Debutantes of the Year - took English society by storm. Society photographer Norman Parkinson used them as models and newspapers photographed them at every opportunity. Well-connected, they seemed destined for 'good' marriages and the relative obscurity of upper-class country life. Certainly no one could have predicted that, instead, two of the literary giants of the 20th century would become utterly infatuated with them. George Orwell was the first to be smitten, after meeting Celia at Paddington station. Some time later, in Paris, the French novelist Albert Camus fell madly in love with her sister Mamaine. As leading socialist intellectuals of their day, both authors were the antithesis of the chinless wonders the twins were expected to marry. On the surface at least, two more unlikely romantic pairings seem hard to imagine.

The uptick of capital punishment in recent years, as well as the brutality of methods used around the world, has brought state-sanctioned executions back to the forefront. Wide reports indicate that thousands of people are killed every year in a horrific 'conveyer belt' of death, with the Chinese Communist Party adopting anachronisms such as firing squads and mobile death vans to expedite state executions. The United States has been charged with the industrial murder of civilians, which has been chastised by human rights organizations for regulating an increase in the number of crooks put to death by various lethal means.

They were children from radically different backgrounds who captivated the nation as their lives were chronicled over decades. In what began with Seven Up! In 1964, viewers saw how the Jesuit maxim 'give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man' came out in reality. Now, following Nick Hitchon's death (left), who watched life as the son of a farmer in the Yorkshire Dales before ascending to become a respected scientist, MailOnline examines what happened to the 13 participants. Neil Hughes (second from left) began life as a chess-playing Liverpool schoolboy with aspirations to study at Oxford but his life took a dramatic turn. He suffered with homelessness for a time and then became a lay preacher. Jackie Bassett, the mother of three children and grandmother of five, now lives in Motherwell after relocating to Scotland nearly 30 years ago, married at 19 and worked in various occupations. Jackie now suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, which means she is unable to work. Suzy comes from a wealthy family and was first noticed at a London day school without the use of an umbrella. In 7 Plus Seven and 21 Up, she has always expressed moderate disdain for the initiative, branding it "pointless and silly," though she has promised not to participate in again after 49 Up, but did participate in 56 Up out of 'obligation.' When it came to 63 up in 2019, she kept her word when it came to 63.

Graeme Macrae Burnet read Catherine Simpson's book One Body and Hallie Rubenhold's The Five. J.D., according to him. The Catcher In The Rye, a Salinger's bookworm, gave him the reading bug.