Sentencing someone to live with the knowledge of what they have done is a more serious punishment than ritual killing.

What I can never unbderstand is the way you get the saqme people insisting that some crimes are so terrible that only killing the perpetrator can be adequate. And then they turn around and suggesting that imprisonment is worse than execution anyway, so state killing is the more merciful option.

I'm glad we're finished with all that kind of double-think in Europe, and have seen the last of this kind of killing in our corner of the world. Mainly because I think it eats away at a society, like some kind of poison. And like a number of poisons, it can be addictive for some people.