From the archives: Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Emmy Award for "Roots," and became the first African American to win a best supporting actor Oscar for his performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman," died Thursday, March 28, 2024, at the age of 87. In this conversation with CBS News' Michelle Miller (originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" July 19, 2020), Gossett talked about his long career, and said the greatest advice he could give wasn't about acting – it was about...
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There are some crimes that confession, requiring a few "Hail Mary's" just doesn't seem "just". Putting someone in prison for years … or life, ISN'T "torture"??
I think I'd take the type of as-humane-as-we-can-make-it, torture over 50 years or so of looking at the same tiny cell all day, with maybe an hour of "whatever the weather is" outside. Capital punishment under those terms IS a "choice" I might make. We HAVE to punish … to fit the crime. We can be humane about it even if the crime wasn't. It's about the best we can do. According to rumor, GOD might not be that nice. :-(
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My understanding of the terminology is that "torture" refers to the act of violence with the purpose of forcing the desired behavior of the individual. For example, the most common purposes of torture are to extract information from someone, or to force someone into a contract.
In this sense, electrocuting someone to death is not really a "torture", since it is merely a means of killing someone, it being extremely painful to the victim being merely an irrelevant detail from the executioner's perspective.
That said, there are execution methods that specifically aim at making the individual suffer as much as possible before death - typically with the purpose of intimidating others. In those cases, I would classify what happens as both torture and execution. Two acts in one, serving two different purposes.
I am not sure if originally death through electrocution was intended as just an acute way to use modern technology, or to prolong the victim's suffering. We would need a historical expert to elaborate on that.
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