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The Guillotine and the Death Penalty in Algiers
There was a kind of a new idea, which I actually thought was kind of cool on on applying justice in this case. The fact that it had been decided once and for all that the patient was to die. It seemed to me that if you could come up with a mixture of chemicals that if ingested by the patient, that's the word I use patient would kill him nine times out of 10. But he would know this,. that would be the one condition for by giving it some hard thought by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine or guillotine was that you had no chance at all, absolutely none.
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