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Just curious where people stand on this issue. Not meant to be a big stinker thread.
I voted private because this isnt Iran. And I would add that only heinous crimes that there is undeniable overwhelming evidence. The kind of evidence that is indisputable.
Just curious where people stand on this issue. Not meant to be a big stinker thread.
Some countries in the world that do public executions:
Saudi Arabia
North Korea
Iran
Those immediately spring to mind... Rather not join that company.
I voted private because public reminds me of the old days in England, when people would attend and cheeer beheadings, and in our own past, when people would attend and cheer hangins and burning alive of supposed witches. It seems to desensitize people to the horror of killing someone and turns it into a public event, like a fair or bazaar. Also reminds me of the Roman coliseum when people would cheer their fellow citizens being torn apart by animals or beaten to death by other gladiators or prisoners.
Use reasons and not examples. They convince instead of persuading with populism.
Just curious where people stand on this issue. Not meant to be a big stinker thread.
Some countries in the world that do public executions:
Saudi Arabia
North Korea
Iran
Those immediately spring to mind... Rather not join that company.
If you support capital punishment because you believe it is a deterrent, then you must support public executions because to hide them is no deterrent at all.
The reason, however, that executions aren't public is because the public outcry related to botched executions would be so great that capital punishment would cease in some if not all states.
No society should be afraid of total transparency of government policy that society supports and promotes.
They'll never use the guillotine. That's too quick. Don't you know that they want the prisoner to suffer first.`
While I'm generally against a death penalty, if it must be done, then I'd suggest execution in private, by guillotine. Painless. 100% assurance of death, the first time.
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While I'm generally against a death penalty, if it must be done, then I'd suggest execution in private, by guillotine. Painless. 100% assurance of death, the first time.
First, there are other reasons to support the deach penalty As the ultimate sanction.
Second, I'm afraid you grossly underestimate the bloodlust of Large party of the public.
Third, if you are consistent then I guess you feel there should be public tours of prisons to let the public see the inmates?
Hai Sensei!
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While I'm generally against a death penalty, if it must be done, then I'd suggest execution in private, by guillotine. Painless. 100% assurance of death, the first time.
Just curious where people stand on this issue. Not meant to be a big stinker thread.
I think the DP should be abolished.