Capital punishment, along with constant media attention to violent crimes, seems to make the public mind morbid and/or brutal. It is bizarre that so many people wanted to see and download the photos of the executed man that the server crashed. And the forwarded story said:
> "I am a 33-year-old mother of two young
> children who expected to be disturbed by
> these pictures," one woman wrote in an e-mail
> to Craig Waters, a spokesman for the state's
> high court who helps manage the court's Web
> page. "I looked anyway. To my surprise I felt
> nothing but relief that this scum is now long
> gone!"
Her comment as well as Max's is as disturbing to me as the execution itself.
Yoshie