For people condemned to death, tradition prescribes an austere ceremony, calculated to emphasize that all passion and anger have died down, and that the act of justice represents only a sad duty towards society which move even the executioner to pity for the victim. Thus the condemned man is shielded from all external cares, he is granted solitude and, should he want it, spiritual comfort; in short, care is taken that he should feel around him neither hatred nor arbitrariness, only necessity and justice, and by means of punishment, pardon