🚀 go-pugleaf

In terms of the necessity of Dodd's death, one only needs to listen to what
Dodd himself has said: there is no choice.  People such as Wesley Dodd and Ted
Bundy can not be salvaged; they can never be made harmless enough to live in
our society.

We have a ghoulish idea of what constitutes ``mercy''.  Hanging kills by
fracturing the neck, *not* strangulation, when done properly.  Death is
instantaneous.  Yet, we prefer other means to render the incorrigible
harmless.  We lock them in a cage to rot for decades, perhaps the rest of
their lives, and live in fear of their escape.  I don't call being caged
``living'' or ``merciful''.

When we do execute them, we prefer the slow means with elaborate procedures.
It is absurd that the opponents of the death penalty claim that being strapped
on a hospital guerney with a needle pumping salt water into your veins for 15
minutes before they hit with the pentothal is somehow ``merciful'' compared to
something that kills in a fraction of a second.  Yet this grotesque and
lengthy procedure is proferred as ``mercy''!