Execution team members displace responsibility onto the state and courts to disengage moral self-sanctions.

Evidence

“We have a job to do… . It is simply to carry out the order of the state.” Some responsibility is displaced to the judges and juries: “It’s not up to me to say yea or nay. That’s for the judges and juries. I’m not a part of the deal-making process. I’m here to do the job. I’m assigned to do it and have the job to do” (Osofsky et al. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1941

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Milgram-style obedience studies showing displacement of responsibility to authority figures; also directly extends the vault’s existing claims about how ordinary people rationalize supporting harmful state policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1941