"Anyway, yeah, your dad had a weak stomach…"

Yeah, no we can still want justice and not want to be horrified by the act of execution for the rest of our lives.

Or, I don't know, perhaps we can crush parts of their body one at a time. Or maybe set fire to their limbs one at a time. I mean, why not?

(And never mind that if The State could, even once, execute someone who is innocent, it renders capital punishment instantly null and void in my mind.)

This sounds like something I might have written at 15. Only fools who have never known the horrors of war or indiscriminate violence would wish for the world you’re fantasizing about.

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