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On the other brutal atrocity. America’s death row. The release of the two brothers in North Carolina, after 30 years on death row, only adds to the growing list of miscarriages discovered before the fact of execution: 146 since 1973. Death Penalty Information Project. The same source of information found ten cases in the same time period where there were grave doubts about the executed person’s guilt.
While the barbarity of severing a living man’s head with a hunting knife is self-evident, frying someone on an electric chair, poisoning them with cyanide, hanging them so their neck breaks, shooting them with rifles or that mockery of medical procedures, lethal injection on a Naugahyde cross is on the same continuum, not a “more humane” method, just a different method.
It’s important to see the log in our own eye as well as the log in that of ISIS. We do not come to them with clean hands or pure hearts. We too are compromised and fall short of the glory that could be the human race. This is not to point to a particular solution for either one, but simply to call out the truth.