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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Morbid, but interesting

In case you were wondering, as I was recently, lethal injection is the sole method of execution used by the U.S. military. And yet that seems oddly unsuitable in some way for groups of perpetrators. For some reason I just keep picturing a firing squad. If, hypothetically, a group of perpetrators were to be sentenced to death for the same criminal acts and transactions, much of the communal expiation value of the punishment would be lost if they were taken off individually at odd intervals for execution.

In a related vein, this is a gripping contemporaneous account, unstintingly chronological, of the executions of those condemned at Nuremburg. Morbid, to be sure, but worth reading for the telling little details:
With both von Ribbentrop and Keitel hanging at the end of their rope there was a pause in the proceedings. The American colonel directing the executions asked the American general representing the United States on the Allied Control Commission if those present could smoke. An affirmative answer brought cigarettes into the hands of almost every one of the thirty-odd persons present . . . [a few minutes pass] . . . The directing colonel turned to the witnesses and said, 'Cigarettes out, please, gentlemen.' Another colonel went out the door and over to the condemned block to fetch the next man.


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