Clemenwhatnow?

'It's a good thing there is not much pain,' he observed, 'when the head falls off.'

'Do you know,' Myshkin answered warmly, 'you've just made that observation and everybody says the same . . . But the idea occurred to me at the time that perhaps it made it worse . . . the chief and worst pain may not be in the bodily suffering but in one's knowing for certain that in an hour, and then in ten minutes, and then in half a minute, and then now, at that very moment, the soul will leave the body and that that's bound to happen; the worst part of it is that it's certain. . . It was of this torture and of this agony that Christ spoke, too. No, you can't treat a man like that!'

Maybe you can’t, but he can. I don't know what a murderer deserves, but I'm not sure killing it after "studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences" is possible for a moral man with any imagination at all.

I linked the Online Etymology Dictionary under What? Words in the sideboard. In the interests of saving you the trouble of looking it up, click here to learn about 'fuck'. Then move on with your life, infant. Oh, and just in case you forgot . . . Jacques Chirac is a big whiney weenie and everybody hates him. And he's not the only one.