tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604463807371446221.post6551787536297838403..comments2024-03-24T02:22:29.512-07:00Comments on Lethal Injection: Convicted killer hoping Supreme Court will grant appeal in 6 o'clock executionsisselnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10530803973645146325noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604463807371446221.post-37138177520846966872007-10-30T15:10:00.000-07:002007-10-30T15:10:00.000-07:00from "A Hanging" by George Orwell:"It is curious, ...from "A Hanging" by George Orwell:<BR/><BR/>"It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working — bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming — all toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned — reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone — one mind less, one world less."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com