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In reply to the discussion: Amherst County murderer executed by electric chair [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)66. Lynching was a murder.
Gas chamber deaths were prosecuted at Nuremberg, so the record's clear those were illegal.
Slaveowners killing slaves wasn't murder because slaves were property, not human beings. Today that would be murder, just like keeping slaves would be illegal.
However, it's indisputable that at no point in human history has any prosecution even been contemplated, let alone attempted or implemented, for the act of executing someone convicted of a capital offense under due process by a jury of their peers.
Just like an execution fails to meet one element of murder--legality--abortion fails to meet the element no matter if it's legal or illegal because there's no life in being.
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You're defining any killing as a murder, ergo stripping the word of any meaning.
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#42
Ok. So, you are implicitly answering those questions you've previously refused to?
harmonicon
Jan 2013
#46
To put it another way--was his execution a prosecutable crime according to the
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#47
If it is state sanctioned, then it is still illegal, even if it is not considered "murder."
Socal31
Jan 2013
#71
I don't think solitary confinement for the rest of his life would have added much more significant..
Tom Ripley
Jan 2013
#29
So you're okay with the U.S. being the only country in the western hemisphere that has the DP?
BuddhaGirl
Jan 2013
#49