Posted on 03/26/2019 8:09:13 AM PDT by mbarker12474
Lol …. good one.
For us visually challenged
>I hate to say it, but a decapitation strike against the Left will probably >need 10,000 death sentences, or at a minimum, imprisonment for life >with no parole.
No imprisonment. Death for the left is the only answer.
If only David Carradine had known about the return policy.
Reading your post, it suddenly hit my how DUMB life without parole is.
You did something THAT BAD that you can NEVER walk among the people again, then the death penalty should have been on the table.
But I guess that would mean MANY MANY Dead.
Salem witch trial hanged 14 women and a total of 20 people.
There were many photos from that day on the walls of the Hardee’s in downtown Mankato. Probably not that one, though. I haven’t been back there for years so I assume they’ve changed their decor.
thanx a good start but not the US Willing to grandfather the stat though
Never mind...I skimmed the headline and connected it to the hangings ordered by Lincoln after the Souix uprising.
Most strikingly, from the time of their arrest until midway through their trial, all the prisoners except Mary Surratt and Dr. Mudd—under orders from Secretary Stanton—were forced to wear canvas hoods that covered the entire head and face.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1359511
It only took 8 weeks in what was a very thorough and detailed trial.
America’s Justice system now is a clogged toilet
It is actually not that unique of its time, rather it was almost customary to have prisoners wear hoods so as to not interact with others during a sentence. Originally, this practice was used in Eastern State Penitentiary in the 1830s and was largely attributed to Dr. Benjamin Rush’s theory of human repentance. It was thought that prisoners would reform and receive penitence if they had minimal human contact, thus the hoods. Here, administrators do not expect repentance, so it is most likely carried out as a tradition.
Hannah Cuesta
Thanks for replying to my post.
I think it was the great Thomas Sowell who wrote that a distinction needs to be made between mercy and squeamishness.
Our culture no longer has the confidence to punish — and make an example of — murderers and traitors.
But there appears to be plenty of intestinal fortitude for ruining people’s lives for daring to voice opinions uncongenial to our Leftist elite.
It was a trial before a military tribunal, even though none of the accused nor the victims were military personnel. And there are a number of other ... irregularities ... that would get these convictions tossed today.
Was justice done? Probably. Was the letter of the law followed? Not so much.
Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence?
https://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-rush-9467074
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/features/brush.html
The hoods were a variation of the tranquilizing chair?
Right - we were just a bunch of small villages then.
those witches held us back with their evil spells
Bunch of drunk guys who ......
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