It is not a good symptom that hanging should still be the accepted form of capital punishment in this country. Hanging is a barbarous, inefficient way of killing anybody, and at least one fact about it-quite widely known, I believe-is so obscene as to be almost unprintable. (George Orwell)

It is not a good symptom that hanging should still be the accepted form of capital punishment in this country. Hanging is a barbarous, inefficient way of killing anybody, and at least one fact about it-quite widely known, I believe-is so obscene as to be almost unprintable.

George Orwell

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