WeeGee was a crime photographer. This W logo - the logo might not be the only thing that's not real about the image.<p>(<a href="http://weegeeweegeeweegee.net/2013/03/07/ny-daily-news-posts-12-weegee-photos-on-the-internet/" rel="nofollow">http://weegeeweegeeweegee.net/2013/03/07/ny-daily-news-posts...</a>)<p>> <i>6. “Macabre was Weegee’s specialty. Case in point, the photographer took this shot of an American prisoner strapped into a chair in a gas chamber as he is sentenced to death.”</i><p>> <i>The W logo on the American prisoner’s head is a hand drawn Westinghouse (Westinghouse Electric) logo on a wax figure (self-correction: probably not at the National Wax Museum in Washington D.C., while making the film Shangri-La, instead, it’s probably in Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London) of Caryl Chessman… Macabre and humor, etc.</i>
I think that depends on public opinion at the time, no? <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/1606/death-penalty.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.gallup.com/poll/1606/death-penalty.aspx</a>
This may have been an unfortunate tactic used in the feud between Westinghouse and Edison: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents</a>