Cruel and Unusual Punishment

[t-v]

I think the worst part of any execution must be the lead up to it. It's not like they suddenly kill you without warning. There's the rituals like being given a date and time, the last breakfast, then the walk to the execution place. The worst bit must be those last few seconds when you're just waiting for it to happen. It probably seems like an eternity!

When they used to hang people at Tyburn the criminal had to ride through the streets for miles being jeered at. Can you imagine how awful that must have been?

Hi Fenella,

That's why it acts as an effective deterrant, because it's so awful to imagine.

[timey]

All executions are barbaric in my opinion.

[t-v]

All executions are barbaric in my opinion.

Especially ones caused by war... illegal war.

[Ernest Rants]

I'd choose how Graham Chapman in Monty Pytons 'The meaning of life' was executed, chased off Beachy Head by dozens of topless women

[SFB]

I'd choose how Graham Chapman in Monty Pytons 'The meaning of life' was executed, chased off Beachy Head by dozens of topless women

I'd have chosen being caught by them and suffocated!

[t-v]

Dirty buggers.

[Fenella]

All executions are barbaric in my opinion.

I think so too timey. Even when someone does something terrible it seems barbaric to me. I just don't think anyone has the right to deliberately kill someone else no matter what they've done.

[SFB]

I think so too timey. Even when someone does something terrible it seems barbaric to me. I just don't think anyone has the right to deliberately kill someone else no matter what they've done.

My eyes deceive me, for I'm unable to believe what you have written, even the lord thy god is known to have smitten (read executed) the occasional transgressor.

Which is most barbaric, for someone to order the deaths of millions, or the killing of that person?

[Fenella]

My eyes deceive me, for I'm unable to believe what you have written, even the lord thy god is known to have smitten (read executed) the occasional transgressor.

Which is most barbaric, for someone to order the deaths of millions, or the killing of that person?

Huh?

[SFB]

That's educayshun in a nutshell.