It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working –bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming–all toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned – reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone – one mind less, one world less. (George Orwell)
I was actually thinking of making a thread about capital punishment not too long ago, and then this happened lol. A sick mockery of the whole thing, though it is interesting how it's a return to form for mankind as a whole.
I have no qualms about capital punishment, personally. if the process didnt take 15 years it'd clearly be more humane than a life sentence
I'm against it but if it's done it shouldn't be hidden away, everybody should be forced to watch
Cancelled, nothing ever happens
Anonymous :
17 days ago :
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>>13394
>>13392
In the thermidorean reaction they straightened out a paralysed man for the guillotine. It took a quarter hour and he was in screaming agony for the duration.
it cracked me up when people said they couldn't execute him because he was disabled in a wheelchair like first of all he was in there because of the shooting and second of all needing a wheelchair doesnt mean you cant be stood up
Anonymous :
17 days ago :
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>>13540
>>13394
Georges Couthon, who you are talking about, literally got rid of the right to a defense counsel. He quadrupled the rate of executions and then died because of it, you could call it an elaborate suicide if you were feeling funny.
>>13392
it cracked me up when people said they couldn't execute him because he was disabled in a wheelchair like first of all he was in there because of the shooting and second of all needing a wheelchair doesnt mean you cant be stood up
In the thermidorean reaction they straightened out a paralysed man for the guillotine. It took a quarter hour and he was in screaming agony for the duration.
>>13394
>>13392
In the thermidorean reaction they straightened out a paralysed man for the guillotine. It took a quarter hour and he was in screaming agony for the duration.
Georges Couthon, who you are talking about, literally got rid of the right to a defense counsel. He quadrupled the rate of executions and then died because of it, you could call it an elaborate suicide if you were feeling funny.
some wickedness truly deserves death, and its the states job to enforce that. unfortunately theyre incredibly incompetent.