Auschwitz, Anyone?
We would have taken a whole chapter from Third Reich’s book by using a gas chamber, instead of lethal injection, as a means for capital punishment. When President Fidel Ramos gave a thumbs up to bring the death penalty back in 1993, he was actually thinking of replacing the electric chair with a gas chamber. The Americans rejected his bid to purchase the materials needed, although they did convince him to buy the materials for lethal injection. Well, if you think of it. A gas chamber’s really not the most humane way to take someone’s life (as if there is a humane way to do so). If you’re going to give capital punishment to someone, at least make it fast and easy.
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