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Last night we were out at a friends place. He and his wife had just come back from three years in the Egypt working for a rather well known aviation company. During their stay they had been invited to a public execuation of criminals. As guests, they were given a front row seat to the removal of the criminals head. All those put to death that day (5) were charged and convicted of rape or murder..or both.

The couple explained that the event was rather somber for all those in attendence knew that no matter what heads would roll and the guilty would be no longer a problem for society. Each criminal was brought out, obviously heavily sedated, and place on their knees. They were then told to pray to the east with their head lowered. before they knew what happened the executioner swung the rather long sword and took off the head. Blood flew everywhere and the deed was done. Between each wacking of the head the place was cleaned and the body given to the family to bury at their cost.

Now, I think we as Canadians could adopt this means of thinning the herd. Sort of clean up the streets with a little public justice. Even if crime rates didn't go down that much, I think we could use this as a means of cleaning up the prison system. This would allow for longer sentences and give those who truly need a good lesson a front row seat to the executions. that might curb the criminals a little.

Toughts?

Love Always,

Samantha

   

Whacking some one's head off with a sword is so barbaric,however having a "rope" party for the Paul Bernardo types is a different story.

   

At least in that society there is no hypocrisy about it. I alway said that if a society embrace capital punishment it should be done in public

If Québecer agreed to the death penalty they should be able to see it!

If not then life without parole is fine by me.

   

i.e., you want to try to force feed morality to people who've been deemed lost causes to begin with?

I think we should make a deal with Old Testament God and get him to start kicking ass again... put people back in their place as authority-fearing serfs. God probably wouldn't mind; it'd bring back memories of the good ol' days of plagues and rivers of blood.

   

797 you have to understand the cultural difference. For them hanging is barbaric

But I would go for impalement

   

I think the sudden rise of support for death penality in this country is mostly due to the fact that the canadians feel that the criminals are getting ridiculous sentence for the crimes they commit. A good begining would be to make sure that the judges raise their sentences....

   

Sam I am:
What type of compensation would you be willing to give the families of these people in the cases were the people were later found to be innocent as in the cases of Donald Marshall,David Milgard and Guy Paul Morin?

   

I am agaisnt the death penalty except in extrodinary cases ie. someone like Hitler. I think it starts to become appropriate when War Crimes and Crimes agaisnt Humanity on large scales are involved... however common criminals should be kept in...until physcologists are positively sure they are reformed and pose 0(ZERO) risk to the public

   

People seem to be under the impression that the purpose of a criminal justice system is to punish offenders. Not true. The purpose of the system is to DETER crime. You don't rob the corner store because you don't want to go to jail. The punishment delt out has to act as a deterant. The death penalty has never proved to be a deterant to crime. If it is not a deterant then it is just revenge, state sponsored revenge. As a society we are better than that.

   

Well, I don't rob the corner store because I don't think that's the "right" thing to do... if fear of punishment is the only thing keeping you, or the general public, from killing, stealing, etc, we're in a bad state.

   

For most of us this is true BN, but not for all. Dad was a cop for 38 years and his favourite saying was "locks are for honest people, it helps keep them that way"

Well that saying and my sig were his favs

   

None. I feel that the death penalty is the absolute punishment for those who can not be turned around. Anyone sentenced to death should be done so under a very strict set of rules...Like caught with the gun in hand on video pulling the trigger, or more than two witnesses to the crime who don't know the criminal in question. In otherwords there is no fear of wacking the head off the wrong guy. Any doubt should automatically be a life sentence.

I am a person who believes in extremes. If a crime is carried out, the person caught for that crime should serve time in hell. These Club Feds should be done away with. Hard time should mean four walls and a courtyard to exercise in. Not tv without cable and the pool temp at 72 degrees F. Last year I was taken on a walk through a minimum security prison. I was digsuted to see that the inmates had access to computers and golf courses. They lived in housing units that were far more then they deserved. there wasn't even a fence around their prison. That is crap. they should be doing hard time for any crime. Now that the Liberals are out of there i am sure all this will change. I think cutting the head off a few snakes will clear up a few things. Perhaps placing the folks from the minimum security prison in the front row to watch might cure a few of them...and the rest hwo don't get the message can get a good look at where they are going in the future.

I'm not that good at swing a sword yet, but I could be taught to do so.

Love Always,

Sam

   

Didn't you watch Prison Break?

   

Hitler had not killed a single person in his life. Nor has he signed any policies.

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The death penalty won't deter crime, life imprissonment is just as effective deterance, I mean once you're dead, then you lost all concious, therefore, one wouldn't have any worry, just like sleeping, except no dreams. Executions are extremely hypocritical, perhaps the executer should be hanged, and the hangman shot, and the gunners gassed, and them injected, and so on. The only good side to capital punishment is it would save a lot of tax dollars if we had a system that killed them quickly, like large gas chambers, like the one Eichman had! Perhaps sending them to Elsmere island would be good, then shoot them all summerily. It would save us millions, then we could use that money to reduce wait times, death from life I suppose.

   

Hitler may not have personallly kiiled anyone and he may not have "signed" any policies but sure as hell they were his policies. It was HIS idea to murder over 6 million jews HIS idea to invade Austria Chekoslovakia Poland USSR Denmark Norway The Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg France and to use terror bombing agaisnt London and Coventry and Antwerp and too many others to mention. It was HIS idea to ethnically cleanse the gypsies and it was HIS idea to kill the Jehovah's Whitness' and Homosexuals. He KNEW about the massacre of villages that had resistance fighters and he did NOTHING to stop them. DO NOT TELL ME HITLER WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MILLIONS OF DEATHS.

   

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