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Appropriate methods of execution
Im not sure where this belongs... but I have been thinking about the death penalty a bit recently (because of a the serial killer in my home town recently being found guilty)
I do believe that the death penalty should exist - for the crimes which society finds most horrible. i do not believe that it is a deterrent, and I believe miscarriages of justice are possible - but I believe it is a necessary ritual which society must observe to cleanse the horror of the most unacceptable crimes (as defined by the general will of the population)
I saw a show tonight about how the lethal injection is cruel, and I never really thought about it before... but if people are to be killed by the state, does cruelty come into it?
I never really thought of any other method of execution than hanging by the neck - which is instant at least. I dont understand the rationale of gruesome things like electricution and chemical death - does anyone know how such things came to be practised?
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without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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