Returning to the firing squad is thus a recovery of the logic that underwrites punishment itself. We live in a culture that recoils from plain speech, that prefers euphemism to truth and sentimentality to hard judgment. Punishment has been softened into therapy, justice into management, and moral responsibility into vague talk about “systemic injustice.”
A society that still believes in justice should not flinch from the firing squad, for it is the clearest way of saying that murder will be answered with the full weight of law.
Tim Hsiao is a college professor and law enforcement officer. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center.
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