By John Kenneth Galbraith
The richly adventurous memoirs of 1 of the main surprising public figures to dominate the yank scene over the past decades
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Nearly 3,000 volts of electricity would course through me for two minutes, cooking my brain, while my body convulsed against the chair’s thick leather straps. I dealt with the horrifying prospect by denying it. I swallowed daily the tranquilizers that guards handed out to inmates on death row to keep them pacified, and then begged other inmates for their pills. Those pills kept me stoned for six months straight. When I finally tired of my drug-induced stupor, I confronted my sentence head on. If the system intended to kill me, I wanted to learn everything about the monstrous sins it committed in carrying out the ultimate sentence.
The guillotine and gas chamber are among the worst. These and other methods of executing inmates and lingering questions about executing the innocent, should prompt the honest man to search his soul and seriously consider asking the state to ban the death penalty. Human beings are more than the sum of their parts. We are not bound by survival behavior and the pleasure centers of our brains into an unholy alliance with sadism. We know that capital punishment is a crime. S. Supreme Court eventually strike it down, consigning it to history like drawing and quartering, burning at the stake, drowning, or boiling in oil?
Child Rape 11. The Killers of Women 12. The Crime Victims Movement 13. Youth Violence 14. The Saga of Louisiana’s First Post-Furman Execution Appendix A: Methods and Offenses Appendix B: Statistics Acknowledgments Index Foreword Arguments against the death penalty expose capital punishment for what it is: revenge disguised as justice. When there is a conviction in a capital case, the prosecutor appears before the jury arguing that it must impose the death penalty because the criminal poses a continuing threat to society.