the other Kissinger on public executions

[Mattcapri at aol.com]

I must first advise you I have not read the responses yet. I will be brief. 
Marge Piercy raises the issue of capital punishment in "Woman on The Edge of 
Time." In the utopian society depicted in the novel, people who repeatedly 
commit heinous crimes and cannot be reformed by the means employed in the 
society are executed. The rationalization for this was that the 
infrastructure necessary for isolating these individuals was a greater evil 
than the executions. Given Kissinger's politics and China's history I am not 
particularly shocked that he takes a similar position on revolutionary China.
mcapri