[Denial] Death is ugly
And we are hideous.
We have morphed capital punishment into a medical procedure, clean, efficient, precise. The changes certainly aren't for the condemned, they die, they are for us. Somehow it must quiet the guilt. A set up for self-induced cognitive dissonance. A man dying peacefully surely can't be state sanctioned murder.
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We do it because we think the Constitution demands it of us. It is a legal thing, I doubt it has to do with guilt.
I think that many of those people who accept capital punishment believe that something comes after death. Death is not the end, as Socrates says, it is the great unknown. The point then would be to make the passage to that great unknown less traumatic so that when they get there they are not obsessed with and damaged by how they got there.
Or maybe not...
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