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Death penalty and perfection don’t go together, as these famous botched execution stories show. Sometimes death wasn’t the ultimate outcome at all!

The Americans comprises eighty-three photographs, plucked out from over a thousand shots taken by one Swiss-born artist. Robert Frank’s pictures of America were once branded “anti-photography” for their technical freedom and emotional valence; with his 35mm Leica in hand, he cut beneath the veneer of the 1950s American Dream to reveal the heart of a nation as something pulsating, vulnerable, and exposed.

Councils must decide which changes forged in the heat of the pandemic to make permanent – and understand what their choices entail. Claire Read reports on