More on Lynching

[benlehman]

This is just a stray thought from months ago.

There was a student project at the UW where they had lists of all the people who were lynched in Washington State, their names, their race, their age. They read them out loud at one point, I think, but they also had them in big binders on the quad.

I just remember that half of the Chinese men were listed as "name unknown." How fucked up is that? To kill someone in a mock trial and execution and not even know his name. It gave me chills. Still does, actually.

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[yeloson.livejournal.com]

Apparently there's two chemicals- one is the one that kills you, which apparently is very, very painful, the other one is the one that paralyzes you, so you don't violently thrash about from the painful part.

Morphine, would be both more humane and actually cheaper.

Again, it's not that savagery is being done, it's that it needs to be appropriately decorated in the guise of civilization to make it palatable.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

What Chris said. The supreme court put a temporary stay on all lethal injections in California after the head of the AVA (American Veterinary Association) said he would disbar for reasons of cruelty anyone who used that chemical cocktail to kill an animal.

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--Ben