zenn bites...

on a much less chickee note...i read the "rape of nanking" and "the life of david gale" too...not today, but over the past few days...

rape of nanking made me cringe...the descriptions of how the chinese were treated were so painful...

the senseless killings - imagine digging your own grave, being lined up with hundreds of other men, watching the row in front of you being beheaded, and burying the dead..all the while knowing that you will be next

the sick, cruel rape of innocent women - from 8-year-old little girls to grannies the age of 80...gang-raped, mutilated, having all sorts of weird things stuck up their vaginas, tortured beyond belief before being killed...

it was all so heart-wrenching that it made me cry...xiang gave me a weird look when he looked up briefly from his notes and said, "don't read it if it's so painful"...


the life of david gale tells of an anti-death-penalty activist (professor david gale) who sits on death row, awaiting execution by lethal injection...he'd been charged with and convicted of rape and murder of a fellow activist...

the professor contacted an investigative reporter and, over the last 3 days of his life, tells her his side of the story...the reporter raced against time to save him as she is convinced that he isn't guilty...what follows are the unearthing of the events that led up to the woman's suicide and the wrongful killing of a man...both showing that the death penalty carries with it the undue risk of murdering innocent people, and that legal execution should be stopped...

how can human beings treat each other so cruelly?