Humane Execution, Really?
After a seven month hiatus on executions in the United States, the state of Georgia executed William Lynd last night for killing his girlfriend who he shot three times in the face before burying her body on the side of the road.
Lynd was supposed to be executed last year, but all executions across the United States were put on hold for months while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether lethal injection constituted “cruel and unusual” punishment because sometimes if the anesthesia is not properly administered, the inmate can suffer immensely.
While I hate to be the master of the obvious, we’re killing the person, why does it always matter to people how we do it?
Currently there are 127 thousand people serving life sentences over 3 thousand of which are on death row. Personally, I think we should just get rid of them all.
I’m tired of this propagated belief that we are a morally just society, that we have evolved past barbaric execution, when the real truth is that we don’t want to have blood on our hands. So we lock them in a little box and pretend that they don’t exist. And for what? So we can sleep better at night knowing that we’re not killers like them?
Maybe if we spent a little more time executing inmates, other people like William Lynd would think twice about shooting his girlfriend in the face three times.
