> The author glosses over the criminals charged with death penalty easily and goes into depth about his and his staff's personal experience and their moral burd

> The author glosses over the criminals charged with death penalty easily and goes into depth about his and his staff's personal experience and their moral burden/PTSD, the distress they might have felt. I think that is pretty much expected with an article titled "What I Learned from Executing Two Men". > Being an outsider, it's something I notice a lot in American media - a tendency by law officials (and soldiers) to lament about their suffering while not paying enough attention to the people who are the real figures of the tragedies (death penalty, victims of war). But there is damage on both sides. No one disputes the suffering of those who are killed, but it's a fairly recent development to study the suffering of those on the other end. I think it should be studied so that we know what we're asking people to do (be it an executioner, soldier or first responder).