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Higher-Quality Pictures

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So I'm aware that there are tons of higher-quality versions of the pictures in this article (especially the one with Nick Kuesis pointing at James Morelli, and the one of James Morelli's execution). I didn't want to use them because I don't believe I'd have the rights to them; it was easy to secure the rights to the ones I included because they were printed straight in the newspapers, but they also are of very poor quality because they're literally just newspaper clippings. I've even seen the higher-quality pictures of Nick Kuesis/James Morelli circulating on Reddit (case in point: here, posted by a fellow Wikipedia editor, with 15,000+ votes). Is there any possible way someone with rights to the higher-quality versions of these images could add them to the article and replace the old ones?

I think it's especially important to include a higher-quality picture of Morelli's execution, given that one of the claims made by the Cook County Jail warden as to why the photo had to have been faked was that Morelli did not have an electrode on his leg in the purported photo. However, in higher-quality versions of the picture, you can actually see what looks like an electrode. (Here's one example, which is barely better, but just good enough to see an object on his leg. Another one here looks like the original from the Herald-American.) The picture I have included in the article right now is of such low quality, that the electrode is blurred into his leg and not clearly visible. Afddiary (talk) 00:28, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]