There is a Polish film maker who made a series of movies about the ten commandments. For "You shall not kill", he tells the story of a young man who becomes a murder and gets caught, sentenced, and executed. Unfortunately, I neither do remember the title, nor the name of that guy. Kozlowski, maybe? The prison scenes, the sheer absurdity of the civilized "ceremony" of bringing someone to execution and ritually lead him through his final minutes, unmasks the pervertion that is behind any consideration of death as a "penalty". One moment that guys smokes his last cigarette, guards around him, standing together like old friends, smiling - the next moment he is fighting for his life, yelling, pushing, guards grabbing him, and the others handling the rope. Grotesque.
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