"BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — The Idaho Statesman first reported that as Idaho works toward making the firing squad the primary form of execution, the State is also looking for a way to mechanize the actual firing of the gun."
I am not surprised. Throughout history, executioner have been well-paid because it exactly a toll on those doing it. Even when done at the active encouragement of the government and often executing pretty despicable people, it is a heavy burden to kill another person. If you read Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men about the reserve policemen assigned to carry out the genocide in Eastern Europe during World War Ii, you realize how destructive it was. This is why the National Socialists set up death camps to reduce the sense of responsibility that ordinary men feel when taking lives.
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