By Joseph Sorrentino
This week, a gunman opened fire at shoppers in a mall in Oregon, killing two people before turning the gun on himself. The man's blind rampage reignited the debate over how the media should cover these killers, who frequently claim that they committed mass murder to gain notoriety.
At one time in colonial America shaming a lawbreaker served as a deterrent to crime. A wrongdoer would be placed in wooden stocks in the public squa...
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