Well, that's the point... I don't think we should kill, but I think it's hypocritical to give it a sheen of respectibility. If you're going to take away someone's life, I don't see that there's much sense in pretending you're leaving other things like privacy and dignity.
Also, I think more people might be properly outraged if we made it into a spectator sport, and then maybe the law will be changed and we can join the civlized nations in, oh, not letting the state be an eye for an eye murderer.
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