A messy business

A PSYCHOPATHIC double murderer’s exercise of his right to be executed by firing squad in Utah has been received with aversion outside the United States.   Death by shooting is unquestionably messy and bloody but the concept and carrying out of capital punishment is fundamentally barbaric, whatever method is used in the implementation of legalised assassination.

A PSYCHOPATHIC double murderer’s exercise of his right to be executed by firing squad in Utah has been received with aversion outside the United States.   Death by shooting is unquestionably messy and bloody but the concept and carrying out of capital punishment is fundamentally barbaric, whatever method is used in the implementation of legalised assassination.