It is not easy to imagine these young ladies moving on from a picnic to administer death wholesale.
A euthanasia advocate, Dr Farmer (Jacki Weaver, as a gentler take on Philip Nitschke) has developed a new machine that administers death literally at the press of a button.
John Morley, a columnist at The Daily Utah Chronicle, the university's student paper, wrote: "The notion that students need a weapon capable of administering death at any moment just to feel safe is paranoid and poorly grounded.
"Despite the strength of the cases, the federal executions this month will be a reminder of what the late constitutional scholar Charles Black Jr called 'the inevitability of caprice and mistake' in administering death.
Aomame's strangely passive life, in which she administers death to her victims with a single sterile needle applied to a point at the base of the brain, is only given purpose, we come to learn, by the memory of a single act of affection.
Death row is going nowhere, and as a result, the US remains an archaically sovereign state, ruling over life by administering death.
"We can't allow an assembly-line procedure that lets doctors run down the hall as they administer death," state Sen. Ralph Hise (R) said during the debate.
In his own words, Anwar al-Awlaki emphatically rejected the use of terrorism (clip at 3 43mins): "The fact that the US has administered the death and homicide of over 1 million civilians in Iraq, the fact that the US is supporting the death and killing of thousands of Palestinians, does not justify the killing of one US civilian in New York or Washington DC.
He was the state's executioner from 1982 to 1999 and administered the death penalty to 62 inmates, some by lethal injection and some by electrocution.
The Iraqi government that appointed the executioners who administered the death penalty was dominated by Shia politicians, and Shia guards were captured on a mobile phone camera during the hanging jeering at the dictator just before he died.
