The scissors - Weddings

Cain did not kill, and although humans have looked at him over the centuries with a look of disapproval: this is, in any case, the lesson that we should draw from the Old Testament, and much more from the Gospels, instead of drawing crude examples from Mosaic law. And nothing prevents, in any case, our country from undertaking an experiment, limited in time (for example, ten years), if our parliament remains unable to atone for its preferred proposals to produce alcohol with that great civilizational measure of abolishing the death penalty entirely. And if public opinion and its representatives truly cannot abandon this lazy law that only erases the existence of those it cannot reform, then at least let us strive, while waiting for a day when serious and genuine life will dawn, to abolish this "celebratory slaughterhouse" that pollutes our society. The death penalty as it is applied, and however little it is applied, is a disgusting massacre, an insult directed at the person of human beings and their bodies, this amputation of the neck, this living, beheaded head and these long fountains of blood, date back to a barbaric era that believed it terrified the people with humiliating scenes. Today, as this vile death is carried out secretly, what meaning remains for this torment? The truth is that we kill in the atomic age as we used to kill in the age of the scales. And there is no naturally sensitive person who does not feel nausea just thinking about this crude surgery. And if the French state is unable to triumph over itself in this area, and to offer Europe one of the medicines it needs, then at least it should begin by reforming the way it applies the death penalty. The science that is useful in killing abundantly can at least be useful in killing with dignity. Benja transfers the condemned from a state of sleep to death, and keeps him accessible for at least a day so he can use him freely, and imposes on him in another way if he refuses to use him or if his will betrays him. Such a Benja would guarantee death if we continue to rely on it, but it would add a bit of dignity to a process that today is nothing but a vile and sordid spectacle.