One could say that this isn't a health issue and doesn't belong in HealingPoints, but it does. The health of the society affects the health of the individuals. Executions solve nothing and only further barbarize an already barbaric world. How can this be healthy?Executions Create Generations of Victims: "'They're going to kill him because he killed somebody, so when they kill him, who do we get to kill?' asked the 10-year-old daughter of Christina Lawson at the time of her father's execution by the U.S. state of Texas in 2005.
State executions leave such children confused and traumatised -- and entire families, too. Some are so affected that they are driven to the brink of insanity, a groundbreaking report entitled 'Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families left Behind' graphically illustrates.
It has been published by Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), a Massachusetts-based organisation representing the family members of the victims of murder and state executions.
'Families of the executed are victims too,' the report stresses.
The pain of one group of survivors should not be redressed by causing pain to another group of survivors. Society needs to address the emotional and physical harm that is being done.
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