I've seen a story about a certain rich, middle-eastern country, where capital punishment and judicial mutilations are widespread and endemic. The item discussed that country's proposal to replace public beheadings with more 'humane' methods of execution.
Does it really matter which particular method is used to kill people? They are just as dead at the end of the process. Is this not an abuse of the very technology which was intended to be of benefit to mankind? There is nothing humane about judicial murder. It is mediaeval and barbaric, and surely has no place in the modern world. In my opinion, that country might do well to have a good hard look in the mirror, and ask itself why its laws require so many people to die. It might also do well to look into possible alternative punishments, ones that don't require people to be put to death. I fear that such hopes will not be realised, in a country where the laws of the land are dictated by an exceptionally brutal and intolerant theocracy.
I shouldn't have read the news. It's depressing. I could cry.
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