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      The guillotine is a fiendish, formidable machine. Employed by man to instil the justice of the class currently ruling, it punishes the condemned. This diabolical contraption cares neither for age nor for sex.

     Few envision being called before this grim device of wood and steel. Its blade is suspended and will act as if it were the scythe of the Grim Reaper. When released by the executioner, a journey to another realm commences. It takes less than a second for the knife to travel to its final destination. Once the apparatus is engaged, the blade has the uncanny ability to fall silently, emitting a sound only upon impact, as the flesh is severed and the bone is crushed.

     The existence that culminates in such an execution is one that few can fathom. When political purposes are in play, a condemned individual most likely stands against those who were swept into power and the eradication of life is but the result of poor timing or ill luck. Once the machine’s energy is applied, it is an irreversible sentence upon the condemned.

     I have no intention of entering into a monologue over capital punishment. Most citizens are of the mind that evil must be punished. Many amongst us believe in the age-old law of an eye for an eye, death for death. The rationale, however, that causes a person to act, to kill another, or to commit another nefarious crime so vile as to result in a sentence of death is what to many remains a mystery. Permit me to enlighten you with my own personal insight.

     I do not believe that insanity ever drives one person to prematurely extinguish another’s lifespan upon this globe. That excuse is but a feeble plea concocted by lawyers whose ability to provide a proper and effective defence is wanting. The outlook of a perpetrator may, to others, seem bizarre, and the resulting deed most horrid, but the decision is always clear in the killer’s mind.



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