executions

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The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention. Paul Blobel

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. George Carlin

The nervous strain was far heavier in the case of our men who carried out the executions than in that of their victims. From the psychological point of view they had a terrible time. Paul Blobel

Our men taking part in the executions suffered more from nervous exhaustion than those who were to be shot. Paul Blobel

The disappearance of public executions marks therefore the decline of the spectacle; but it also marks a slackening of the hold on the body. Michel Foucault

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them. Wendy Kaminer