Should we Murder the Murderers?

George Orwell is a profound author who even in the early 1900’s addressed the injustice and moral issue of the death penalty. In his classic piece, “The Hanging”, Orwell writes of an execution of a Burmese man that he not only witnessed but also assisted in. If it took Orwell such a vivid account of death to realize the moral issues in the death penalty one wonders what it would take for us in a …

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