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Originally Posted by murfitUK

As a society, we have set out rules which you have failed to abide by. As a result we are going to kill you.

You may have committed the most horrendous, heinious crimes imagineable and have proved to be the **** of the earth.

But despite all that, we will treat you with dignity and humanity, and ensure your death is as painfree as possible because we, as decent human beings, have no desire to sink to your level.

Also, we often mess up and put innocent people to death - so if you are later found to be innocent it will help us sleep more easily knowing you didn't suffer too much in your final moments. After all, the next wrongly convicted person might be me.

Losing their life is punishment enough...