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A 3 page paper which examines how hangings today are as brutal as the one detailed in George Orwell’s story “A Hanging.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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more modern methods of executions, intended to ease suffering, and despite the fact that, in the United States at least, the numbers of executions are relatively low, the atmosphere and
the existence of capital punishment is still brutal George Orwell wrote a story titled "A Hanging" which details the inhumane and cold brutal manner in which one man is hung.
It is a story that serves to illustrate the basic inhumane and brutal nature of executions. The following paper examines Orwells story and the real conditions of brutality and unfairness
in executions today. Capital Punishment In discussing the types of executions we look at the United States as well as other parts of the world. In the United
States there are many different possibilities, or choices, in terms of capital punishment and it appears as though each state has different rulings, or options. In the United States the
methods are varied. There is the option for gassing, injection, hanging, and even beheading. In other parts of the world there are the same, but there are also such things
as stoning as well. But, regardless of the methods, the environment is often one that is very degrading to the individuals. Those who take care of the prisoners and assist
them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of Orwells story, characters who "had
a drink together, native and European alike, quite amicably" while "The dead man was a hundred yards away" (Orwell). In terms of the treatment, one critic argues, "The state, which
is valuable only as a collective aspiration toward what is best in human conduct, has no place behaving in a primitive, vengeful fashion, torturing people by keeping them on death
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