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Thread #22618   Message #246764
Posted By: Jim the Bart
23-Jun-00 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Next to Die in Texas
Subject: RE: The Next To Die In Texas...
I wish to amend my previous post. The word "barbaric" was poorly chosen. An execution like last night's is not a barbaric act. It is an exercise in the administration of death that is peculiar to people who carry the veneer of civilization. It is cold-blooded, calculated, considered, and administered with deliberate skill. It is perverse in it's civility. A barbarian, killing in response to outrage, in a world where death is imminent, seems less twisted than "justice" administered 19 years after the fact, to a man who was barely more than a child when the crime was committed. Nothing good has come from this act. Just one more dead man.