Originally Posted by Strange Famous

I thought about what kind of man could be an executioner... certainly he was not a murderer, and he did not seem to feel any sense of power over life or death or see himself as Godlike, he rationalised what he did by his obsession in doing the job as quickly and painlessly as was possible.

He walked around his whole life with blood on his hands, and the carried that blood so that the politicians that made the law, the judges that passed the sentence, the society that demanded it, didnt have to wear it on there's.

Such a man was necessary in that society. He wasnt evil or brutal or violent, but he physically pulled the trap and killed 100's of men and even some women.

I know I couldnt have done what he did, and I think the majority of people who support the death penalty could not... but it does make you wonder what sort of a man is required for such work.