Re: Method of Execution (was Re: Death Penalty)

From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 17:32:23 MDT


All I can say is: Yuuuck.----

> What's wrong with the guillotine? Certainly, I have some reservations
> about government executions in general. But, if certain criminals are
> going to be killed one way or the other, I'd suggest that it be made as
> bloody as possible, so that everyone involved has the appropriate sense of
> what they're choosing to do. IMHO, most people in the world's richest
> countries are dangerously ignorant of what violence and death really mean.
> I certainly don't like the attempt to make the taking of a life devoid of
> violence, as with lethal injection where the criminal is "put to sleep."
> It's Orwellian.
>
>
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> Ellis Wyatt
> http://www.foothill.net/~wyattoil
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> The Beyond outside us is indeed swept away, and the
> great undertaking of the Enlightenment complete;
> but the Beyond *inside* us has become a new heaven
> and calls us to renewed heaven-storming.
> --Max Stirner
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