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Don’t you feel anything reading through these? It doesn’t remind you of the humanity of these people?

• hoten 4y ago
  The question still stands. Why does the state bother to record them? What purpose does it serve for the pro capital punishment government to humanize those it executes?
  • escapedmoose 4y ago
    I’m too lazy to research this, but maybe some do-gooder managed to push it through legislation at some point so now they have to?
  • timeon 4y ago
    It is part of the ritual.
  • s1artibartfast 4y ago
    The boring answer is that it doesn't serve as pro-capital punishment propaganda. It is simply a tradition to give the condemned a public last statement. It has foundations in transparency and giving token dignity to the condemned. It is much preferable to disappearing people to black sites with no records.
  • xboxnolifes 4y ago
    Not everything is a strategic move on the political chess board.