The Death Penalty as Sacrifice to the God of Progress

The Death Penalty as Sacrifice to the God of Progress

I’ve never started an article with a trigger warning before, but I feel obligated to inform the reader that I’m about to tell a disturbing story. Ever since I saw the TV report that brought this crime to my attention about a decade ago, I’ve thought about what happened probably on at least a monthly basis. Whenever the death penalty comes up, my mind goes back to it, and sometimes when hearing about other random events too. It’s the story that h…