Controlling the population. That’s the key there.
Some of us promote the death penalty to deter bad behavior here. Flame away, the article does have an agenda but it should make us think a little, just maybe not the way the author is trying to influence us.............
Wrong. It's called 'punishment'. And when we do it the rights of the condemned are scrupulously observed. Every legal avenue has been exhausted, and the sentence is carried out in the most humane way possible.
Executions are carried out away from the public eye, with only a few observers present as required by law.
The death penalty is reserved only for the most heinous of crimes in the U.S.
It literally takes decades to execute a convict in this country and millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on the defense of the condemned.
These barbarians observe no such customs. Condemned persons, including children btw, are hauled by the neck off the ground by cranes and left to strangle. This is done quite publicly with the sole aim of terrifying the population into submission to a gang of 7th Century islamofascist scum.
Comparing our legal system to theirs is a rude joke.
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I have sometimes thought that losing a hand might be an effective method for handling professional thieves. Maybe when convicted on a third-strike offense the criminal could be offered the option of amputation in place of life imprisonment. Or maybe amputation takes the place of life imprisonment in the case of a third strike conviction involving any form of theft. Or maybe amputation could be the penalty for a certain degree of theft - say the theft of millions by so-called “white collar” criminals.
I am all for more expedient trials and executions, for crimes.
However, I wonder how many over there are executed because they questioned a Mullah’s interpretation of a religious dictum, or the sanity of their leaders.