George Orwell Quote

It is not a good symptom that hanging should still be the accepted form of capital punishment in this country. Hanging is a barbarous, inefficient way of killing anybody, and at least one fact about it—quite widely known, I believe—is so obscene as to be almost unprintable.

"As I Please" column in The Tribune (15 November 1946) - "As I Please" (1943–1947)