Murderer To Be Executed
A murderer is to be executed exactly one week from today. He was arrested long ago, but was only recently convicted of serial homicide, and imprisoned with a death penalty after a lengthy, yet fair and just trial. It was pretty clear to both the judge and the jury that he was guilty, and it did not take them long to convict him. (Evidence was abundant). Details of the man’s crime horrified the jury, in addition to the those of the public who followed his trial in the papers.
The serial killer committed his crimes with cold systemicity. He would kidnap his suspects, and throw them in a dark basement for several months, sometimes years. He kept them behind bars, in small cages. (“How inhumane,” people remarked). There, he would torture them. Not physically; he did it psychologically. He tortured their minds with claustrophobia and loneliness, their bodies with atrophy, and their eyes with darkness. Then, when he decided he’d had enough, he took them outside and shot them. (“How cruel,” people said). The jury agreed unanimously that these cruel acts of torture and violence had absolutely no place in a civilized society such as theirs, and could not be tolerated under any circumstances.
The only logical punishment for such a crime, the jury decided, was execution. So, in one week, the man will be executed by firing squad; until that day, he will reside behind bars. All members of the jury fell asleep peacefully after their deliberation.
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