To Kill and Be Killed

Kill and Be Killed Poison is injected into the arm of a woman convicted of murder. An eighteen-year-old boy takes his last breath as an airtight metal chamber being filled with cyanide gas reaches lethal levels. Two thousand jolts of electricity surge through the body of a forty-year-old man who spent the last twenty years of his life locked up in a small steel cage on death row. Welcome to American justice. Public execution has …

…and juries. Society is expert at cold-blooded, unemotional, business-like, professional killing. The death penalty is routine, ritualistic, assembly line murder whereby the state becomes a legal “murder, inc.” serving citizens who pay taxes to have the job done. A culture that resorts to the death penalty as a method of dealing with its troubled is showing the same desperation, panic and outrage as the emotionally twisted individual who in his instability kills another human being.