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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLa guillotine! La guillotine!
Appeals Judge Says Guillotine 'Probably Best' for Executions
By Tracy Connor
A federal appeals judge issued a blistering dissent in a death-row case on Monday, declaring that an execution system that relies on drugs is doomed and the guillotine would be better.
"Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and peaceful like something any one of us might experience in our final moments," Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote.
"But executions are, in fact, nothing like that. They are brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality. Nor should it. If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf."
Kozinski went on to suggest that states that want to continue executing prisoners "return to more primitive and foolproof methods of execution."
rest at: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/appeals-judge-says-guillotine-probably-best-executions-n161641
By Tracy Connor
A federal appeals judge issued a blistering dissent in a death-row case on Monday, declaring that an execution system that relies on drugs is doomed and the guillotine would be better.
"Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and peaceful like something any one of us might experience in our final moments," Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote.
"But executions are, in fact, nothing like that. They are brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality. Nor should it. If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf."
Kozinski went on to suggest that states that want to continue executing prisoners "return to more primitive and foolproof methods of execution."
rest at: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/appeals-judge-says-guillotine-probably-best-executions-n161641
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La guillotine! La guillotine! (Original Post)
El Supremo
Jul 2014
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JEB
(4,748 posts)1. And warfare should be hand to hand combat with nothing more than swords.
JEB
(4,748 posts)3. And anybody who eats chicken
should have to kill, pluck, gut, singe, pluck and cut up said bird at least once. We are all living in bubbles.