Executions
Times editors placed the continuation of an article on California’s upcoming first execution by lethal injection right next to an article on Israeli President Ezer Weizman’s visit to a former Nazi death camp near Berlin (Jan. 15).
Whether intentional or not, this juxtaposition serves as a reminder that even legal execution is murder, a fact that no amount of technological improvement can mask. Whether the government kills millions of innocent Jews, or a single vicious and unrepentant murderer, the death penalty diminishes us all.
ROBERT FINN
Long Beach
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