This is an execution. This is a bloody, cold, calculated murder.

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

A hanging, though, was something different. I got to thinking. We hadn’t never been to nothing just to have a good time. A hanging was special and we was all getting to go.

They made a calculated risk and they lost. That happens in a very difficult business like this.

Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.

He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king.