Twin towers and beyond: The ugly side of demolition

People have the notion that justice should be retributive. It shouldn't

One needn’t go back to the days of the Colosseum, when convicts or prisoners taken during war were thrown to the beasts, to the rapturous shouts of the watchers. This was in Rome during the early centuries of the Christian era. Public executions took place in London till at least 1868, which is almost in our times — the trains had started moving, the telephone and street lighting by means of electricity were just a few years away, and every literate person in Europe and America read newspapers. Men gathered and relished watching people being hanged at Newgate. All were