We can hardly abolish the prisons completely, but I believe they can be reduced greatly. The state pays the victim for injury. Such a system would be able to give the guilty party a feeling of responsibility with respect to the damage he has inflicted. No one knew the horror of an execution better than these men. The executed executioners' amputated corpses are the best historical and psychological dis proof of the punishment's general-preventative effect.
All executions are ritual executions.
Of course there's no such thing as a humane official execution. . . .