for certain political and criminal acts,
then they might have a small problem;
It remained on the statute book for treason
but as a punishment it became redundant
when the people it should be applied to most
became the government; nobody stopped them.
But hanging for other crimes was banned
over half a century ago. If it were reintroduced
then I can assure you that the psychopath
will not be the one on the end of the noose,
they will be the one who opens the trapdoor
underneath the feet of the condemned man
who by his weight will see his life flash before him.
The bigger psychopaths will be the men in wigs,
who presides over the courts
by the power of their old school ties,
and who pronounce the sentence.
So by all means bring back hanging,
but know this much; the hanged man
will always be the wronged man.
What should be put in the dock
is the process that put him
in a noose to begin with
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