After I had worked every day for nineteen years. As I listened to Clyde Charles, it automatically made me consider the contagious dehumanizing and depersonalizing attitude both prisoners and workers at prisons may witness or exhibit themselves. While the state and judicial system expect corrections officers to discharge their duties with professionalism, it's possible that the callousness of any penitentiary system and the superiority bred from 'control of other human beings' can have a dehumanizing effect on inmate and officer alike. There are some aspects of the capital punishment debate which seem uniquely American. We are nationally casual about execution as some kind of birthright.
American society is mesmerized by power, and whoever has it, can use it with impunity.
One of the inmates I visit with on Montana's death row, has said it better than I ever could. Capitalism teaches us well, they are expendable. The fourth blindspot is easiest to identify. We consider ourselves a civilized country, and yet all the civilized countries have banned executions. We are left in the company of Libya, Iraq, North Korea and China.