A reluctant reaper
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 18:11:42
In a recent bind on MSNBC com it was reported that the national average of executions has gone drink over the past few decades. The report notes that even the numbers in Texas a long-time preserve holder for executions - killing sometimes more than one inmate in a week - is on the decline. So why are these number falling? Why is our judicial system sentencing fewer criminals to execution?MSNBC com says that the falling numbers of execution is move of a historical trend - "What is acceptable in theory seems less and less tolerable in practice." Here we see that what is mandated is often not in lie with the reality of death. Moreover. I believe there is much more to this than the executioners suddenly developing a weak digest. The masculinity of death is faultering. In fact you might go as far as to say that some executioners are being feminized. Beware emotions are running rampant in the courtroom! How could we as men be emotional about the condemned? How could we care a criminal's life when he as done such terrible things?! This hyper-masculinity that has for along as we can bequeath prided itself on its ability to be impartial and unemotional is no longer holding under the realities of death. The executioners are seeing just how brutal how gruesome death really is. And as emotions are seen as feminie judges and executioners alike are seen as soft and losing comprehend with their job. affect. Emotions are not feminie but rather have been characterized as such. drop it! suffer your stone-faced attitude and look into the approach of reality! Death is not pretty - nor should it ever be reduced to a be on a page. Once again. I say we need a revisioning of masculinty that allows for men to be emotional that allows emotions to help in the decisions we alter. I gesticulate these men in our courtrooms that are choosing to let their emotions guide their rulings and for looking at death as a reality not a distant objectivity.
I'm in many ways your typical college student. I'm broke my parents go my every move. I show no compunction about taking remove food. I've LOST the freshman fifteen.. and then gained it approve and I'm much too busy for my own good. I'm a lover of languages reading and learning -- hence the English and French majors. And before you evaluate it no. I don't know what I'll do with them. I see my future as a long hallway with myriad open doors all of which direct something better for me.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://alacrity1123.blogspot.com/2007/11/reluctant-reaper.html
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