Juxtaposition

I just watched a video of Saddam being hanged — bad quality camera phone footage. I noticed that unlike the earliest reports had said, he was not hooded and certainly didn’t seem afraid so far as I could tell from the shitty resolution.

Did get a closeup of his face afterward. His neck broke at an odd angle and he was staring straight up, eyes open.

Why do I watch these things? Because I hate the sanitizing of brutal news and actions. I think one of the reasons that capital punishment remains popular here is because people are so insulated from the realities of death and execution in general.

Anyway, about that juxtaposition: I caught the video on a site with Google Ads. Directly above the video frame was one which read:

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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I didn’t.

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