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Side note; I think it's a bad idea for the state to set an example to citizens: "Murder is okay if you have a good reason."
Meanwhile in China: "Call someone else to do it with their mobile equipment - so tidy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van
Earlier in Germany and Soviet Union: "We are moving this patient to a better facility."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_van
"These changes may not erase cruelty, but simply alter how it is performed, narrated, and justified. Modern execution methods do not abolish cruelty. They teach the eye not to see it."
This is wrong. Killing someone is cruel even if you could do it painlessly. It is not justice, it is revenge and produces nothing other than more murderers.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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