I do not care if they burned this man to death on a stake over a small pile of coals over the course of 3 days.
I would have executed him myself.
yesterday my 23-year old conservative niece, during dinner, lamented about how horrible it was for this guy to suffer this way... it is just wrong... i looked up from my plate and said, "i didn't lose any sleep over it." and neither did anyone else at the dinner table...