Midwestern State Afraid To Kill People

Choire Sicha
The Awl
Published in
1 min readSep 17, 2009
ANIMALS

It’s a sacred right of the states, guaranteed by the Constitution, that at its whim it can put you down like a cat that scratches someone’s baby too many times. But some states can’t even handle that God-given responsibility! Like Ohio, which tried for two hours to find a vein in Romell Broom and then finally gave up. This unfortunate event points out a major flaw in the death penalty: why are we trying to kill people by giving them drugs? Really we should drag them out in the town square and have cloaked virgins flay them with their fingernails and pull them limb from limb. Or maybe nuns. Nuns would totally do that shit. Why the proud semi-Midwestern state of Ohio-which just reinstated the death penalty back in 1999, because until then it was a wuss state-doesn’t understand this… well, it is probably because they are afraid of their own bloodlust.

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