They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article254201328.html

The first time Craig Baxley executed a man for the state of South Carolina, he wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do. He slipped the surgical gloves on anyway at around 6 p.m. Behind the one-way mirror that hid his face from the others in the death chamber, a heart monitor beeped a reminder.

Still alive, it told him. That person you’re supposed to kill is still alive.


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A Southern Baptist who attended church every Sunday, Baxley became convinced that killing others for the government had condemned him to hell. He stopped going to services and started thinking about suicide. Once, as his wife begged him to stop from the other side of the door, he shot a pistol through a wall and imagined the bullet going into his body.

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The repercussions of the work for staff have often been left out of conversations about the death penalty, until now. Over the past five months, reporters at The State have spoken with 10 people who helped administer previous executions. The closer they and their families were to the act of killing, the more the men said their jobs caused long-term harm.

The death penalty is not justice. It compounds harm.

[SCantiGOP]

1. Its flawed logic

is that we kill people to show that it’s wrong to kill people.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Kick. Abolish the death penalty.

[Shermann]

3. A frozen expression of anguish?

States go to great lengths to ensure execution chambers are not torture chambers, so some dramatic flair was probably smuggled in here.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. .

States go to great lengths to ensure execution chambers are not torture chambers,

They kinda suck at it though. People do suffer during execution -- both the people dying and those around them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Evening kick.