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Quote by: brien  This could be why the people who favor the DP can live with themselves because it isn't they that are required to throw the switch, fire the bullet or start the injection flow. Even in firing squads some riflemen have blanks and no one knows who has them. The guilt of taking a human life SHOULD bother the conscience of a human being.
Oh I know of the bravados who say: "Just give me the chance and I will do the deed" but I am suspect of them. If they were to spend any time with a death row inmate at all, and then had to throw the switch, fire the rifle, or start the injection as he looked into the eye of the condemned, I again suspect they would sing a different tune. |
Or they wouldn't, but in so doing, they would reveal to everyone else that they are as bloodthirsty as the murderer they've killed -- they simply have a different target.
- Rob