Council of Europe agrees to abolish barrbaric punishment

[Stefu]

I suppose giving him a stern talking to and a few disapproving looks would have sufficed as punishment.

Yeah, and when Americans execute a person he's brought to a stage with dancing girls and pyrotechnics and wild animals and TV cameras on the roll and the executor, who is stereotypical muscle-bound half-naked guy with face covered, who takes his giant bloody axe and HACKS THE MAN UNTIL HE'S DEAD AND THEN RIPS HIS BODY PARTS OFF AND TOSSES THEM TO CROWD TO TEAR APART AND EVERYBODY CHEERS AND DANCES MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Krhm.

[chequita guevara]

Kudos to Europe.



Showing once again that they're better people than we are . . . now.

[David Floyd]

He violated the Geneva Convention.

So? Violating international law doesn't give you the right to try a citizen of another country in either your own tribunal or an international one. Wanna put sanctions on the nation? Go ahead, but that's about it.

[chequita guevara]

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by David Floyd
So? Violating international law doesn't give you the right to try a citizen of another country in either your own tribunal or an international one.

You asked what law Hitler violated, did you not? What's with the attitude?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I wouldn't say so. The difference between Hitler and Truman is motive. Truman authorized the bombingof Hiroshima nd Nagasaki to end a war and save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Further examples that the victors write the laws .

[chequita guevara]

Imran's becoming more and more of a leftie.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm a Libertarian.. I'm neither right nor left .

I just know IR .

[Wraith]

Yet another thread brought to you by Campbell's Condensed Arguments.

It'd be nice to see someone with some new arguments in one of these, but I'm not expecting it.

I just find it amusing that people who refer to the death penalty as barbaric are quite happy to bring up that whole prison-rapist thing. Why not just bring back torture?

Wraith
"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master."
-- Emo Philips

[MrFun]

I oppose the death penalty completely -- whether you murdered one person, or you murdered 5,000 people, you should automatically get life sentence with NO possibility of parole or probation.

The reasons I oppose it (includes a couple already discussed):

1) past studies have shown that the death penalty is racist in United States

2) past studies have shown that in some areas, there is a higher rate of violent crimes committed where the death penalty is legal

3) there is a likliehood that there are innocent people who were falsely convicted, and are currently on death row --- with a life sentence, if they are proven to be falsely convicted, they can be freed --- executed people can not

United States seems to be out of step with the rest of the Western world -- but what else is new, right??


As for the disgusting joke about subjecting criminals to gang rape --- I saw nothing to laugh about.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin


Was her name Tracy?

Sarah. Ww used to say "Sawah". Great body, short thick haircut. And a secretary. Great letters and diction. Love that English accent!!

[David Floyd]

You asked what law Hitler violated, did you not? What's with the attitude?

I meant what law did he break that he could be prosecuted under.

As for the disgusting joke about subjecting criminals to gang rape --- I saw nothing to laugh about.

Actually I see a certain hilarious irony to child molesters and sex offenders getting some of their own back.

[TCO]

Actually I think it is a bad idea to have rape allowed in prison. it is a breakdown of discipline.


If we were to sanction such behavior (and we shouldn't) than the state should adminsiter it...

[David Floyd]

Oh I agree, it's bad - BUT in another sense I find it fitting

[TCO]

haha "fitting"!