When the nation of Belgium formally abolished the death penalty in 1996, it hadn’t executed anyone in peacetime for more than one hundred years. The Belgian government passed the abolition law because, it said, the “death penalty is a serious assault on human dignity.”
The Belgian government was right—unnecessary execution is an assault on human dignity, and an erosion of our humanity. All unjust killing is. This is why, when a pair of twin brothers died by lethal injection in Belgium last [year], it was a tragedy from which we should learn.
The twin brothers weren’t put to death for crimes. They died in a state-supported hospital, by choice. Born deaf, when the brothers discovered that they would also soon go blind, they chose to be put to death at age 45.
Media reports did not disclose their names, but newspapers did describe the moments before the injections. The doctor who directed the killing told a news program that the brothers were “very happy.” He described that they said goodbye to their parents and another brother, with “a little wave of their hands and then they were gone.”
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