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"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."
"The guillotine is probably best but seems inconsistent with our national ethos. And the electric chair, hanging and the gas chamber are each subject to occasional mishaps," he continued. "The firing squad strikes me as the most promising. Eight or ten large-caliber rifle bullets fired at close range can inflict massive damage, causing instant death every time."
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http://www.nbcnews.com/#/storyline/l...utions-n161641
My last few posts have been jokes because I figure, I'm not the guy putting a man to the needle, but this judge speaks some sense.
Cut the BS.
End all of the pomp and pageantry, that crap is just lipstick on the pig. Quit dressing up something ugly as something pretty.
These people have committed what their society has deemed an atrocity and they're required to pay for it, why sugarcoat it?