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...will find out. Soon it will be possible in the Netherlands for doctors to inject lethal drugs into chronically ill people who want to die. No other nation has formally legalized euthanasia. And though mercy killings have not been criminally punished for years in the Netherlands and a few other places--Colombia and Switzerland among them--there's something creepy about how far the Dutch have gone with the law. When it takes effect in the fall, doctors will be able to euthanize sick children as young as 12, as long as the kids ask and Mom and Dad agree...
...guillotine, so the families would be denied a vivid satisfaction; instead they would see someone in a white coat bend over an I.V. tube run into the strapped-down killer's arm, and - they would infer, because they could not see it - delicately squirt lethal fluid from a hypodermic into the tube, like a nurse giving a sedative. And they would watch McVeigh go to sleep. This is "closure...
...natural for the victims of murderers to desire to see justice done. But a new metaphysics of publicity skews and thwarts the justice process, and in a perverse way, vindicates monstrousness even when giving it lethal injections, so that the monstrousness lives...
What the American media either ignored or buried was that while the closure was in place, Israeli authorities apprehended a terrorist cell in Ramallah led by a member of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s personal guard, which admitted responsibility for eight separate lethal attacks and confessed that they had been on their way to lay several bombs in Jerusalem’s civilian centers. Then another cell of four Palestinian terrorists, including a Palestinian policeman, were apprehended trying to leave Hebron, also on their way to carry out an attack. The IDF termed the closure a success...
...this point, very few questions remain concerning Timothy McVeigh's execution. He has shown no interest in filing an appeal; on May 16, wardens at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., will kill McVeigh via lethal injection...