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Elizabeth Brunick
Elizabeth Brunick: 我最初支持死刑，但后来开始质疑其道德性。作为记者，我见证了多次死刑执行，包括联邦政府的死刑浪潮和各州采用的新技术。第一次见证死刑时，我感到震惊，因为我原以为致命注射是平静的，但实际上罪犯在痛苦地挣扎。我丈夫的妹妹被谋杀后，我对正义的看法发生了转变，我开始思考如何应对失去亲人的痛苦。我认识到，愤怒和报复并不能真正带来治愈，而仁慈和宽恕才是更重要的。死刑与基督教的教义相悖，耶稣基督本人也曾阻止死刑的执行。我亲眼目睹了死囚牢房里人性的复杂性，一些罪犯在监狱中找到了救赎，并与受害者的家属建立了联系。尽管如此，我也理解受害者家属的愤怒和痛苦，以及他们对惩罚的渴望。我相信，即使一个人罪有应得，我们仍然可以选择不处以最高的惩罚，这就是仁慈。死刑的执行过程也存在问题，例如执行失败和对黑人囚犯的不公平待遇。我呼吁对死刑进行更深入的思考，并探索更人道的犯罪处理方式。
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Elizabeth Bruenig, staff writer at The Atlantic, shares her experience as a witness to state-sanctioned executions. She details the process of becoming a witness, the different types of witnesses, and her initial reaction to witnessing a lethal injection.
- Multiple ways to witness executions: media witness, victim's family, personal witness.
- Author's initial skepticism towards death penalty evolved after witnessing executions.
- Lethal injection is not as peaceful as it is often perceived.
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