The Black Widow is a game about the death penalty that everyone should play

Opinion by Matt S.

A week ago the American Justice Department decided that it would be reinstating the federal use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While the majority of American states have never stopped using the death penalty, at a federal level that particular legal punishment had been dormant for the last two decades or so. Now, though five people have already had executions scheduled, and that’s why this week's release of The Black Widow is particularly poignant, because it's a reminder of precisely why many nations (including, thankfully, Australia) have abolished the death penalty.

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