1/6/2023 0 Comments Shadow of war brutal execution![]() Weeks after South Carolina passed a bill that would outlaw most abortions in the state, the Associated Press reports that a bipartisan group of senators added the firing squad to a bill that would give the state’s governor alternatives to lethal injection. State senators in South Carolina understand what the death penalty is for and what it means to America. Built for public viewing, the execution chamber conflates justice not only with death but with death as brutal spectacle. Liberty falters before a broken system of criminal justice that punishes rather than rehabilitates, that kills. But in America the lie is so large it swallows every virtue it touches. Often this is a lie, the pretext for counter-revolution or for overseas war. ![]() Many countries hold free and fair elections many claim, too, to be concerned with justice and liberty. The execution chamber is more American than “The Star-Spangled Banner,” than the Pledge of Allegiance, or the democratic process itself. ![]() ![]() South Carolina senators want to bring back firing squads.
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