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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:34 AM Original message |
How is beheading people worse than forms of capital punishment used in the US? |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because it's not sanitized and hidden where we don't have to actually confront it |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. I think it's more about what they're beheading people for. /nt |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 12:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. The woman beheaded in Saudi Arabia killed an elderly woman. |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 12:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Didn't know that's what we were talking about, |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'd pick it over the chair if I had to choose. Not sure about the drug thing. |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
4. Ironically, depending on how it's done, it can be one of the most "humane" forms of execution. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. "Quite annoying actually"? |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. I thought puns were only allowed on Friday. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. Well, I think the electric chair is just as bad, but "lethal injection" is painless if done right. |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
29. Are you sure about that? |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's icky! We like that in splatter films, not in real life. Er, death. |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
8. If it were a quick clean slice it would probably not be THAT bad... |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
9. In the US we seem to prefer our executions to be carried out in |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. it's so, well, FRENCH. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
11. It's all that icky blood. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
12. without advocating the death penalty, let me ask the following |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:54 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Yes. BTDT. nt |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 12:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. My cat refused to die from her 'lethal' inection. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
13. Uhmmmm... maybe because it's a form of ENTERTAINMENT? |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Wait -- "the eyes blink on the severed head"? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. There's a famous story from the French Revolution |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:42 AM Response to Reply #25 |
47. It makes me feel good when someone else remembers something I heard ... |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
16. There's something about the head rolling around and the neck with nothing hooked to it .... |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
18. I've never understood why they don't just administer a lethal dose of morphine |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. That would be far too simple and humane. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:56 PM Response to Reply #18 |
35. I would prefer carbon monoxide, if the goal was simply |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #35 |
42. I'd prefer to go out with a nice mellow buzz. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. They do get to go out with at least vallium I think, not sure how |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
19. It isn't. In fact as it makes the barbarism and brutality self evident |
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ThePowerofWill (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
22. I think the chair is worse, and causes more suffering. |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. And the practice was that nobles were beheaded with a sword |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. The machinery used is "cutting edge" but not high-tech. |
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anamandujano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
27. because of the forethought of what is to happen |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:43 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. I'm not convinced a person would fear it more than electrocution. |
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anamandujano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:31 AM Response to Reply #32 |
46. see posts #20 & #24 |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
28. because of the blood. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. People in the US just have a large thirst for blood. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Do not include me in your assumption. |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
34. If it's one quick lop and instant death then it's no different |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. Because, while dead is dead, beheading is offensive to the sanctity of the body entire. |
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windbreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
37. Even more important a question might be....WHY is this question being asked?? |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 02:53 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Why? Because it p's me off that some Americans act like other countries beheading |
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windbreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. ok...thanx for explaining why you asked..n/t |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
39. it's probably more humane, if killing can be humane. |
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justanaveragedude (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
40. Because if not done properly |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
43. It's an aesthetic thing. |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Busholini called the beheadings in Iraq barbaric yet has |
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DemGa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
48. It's the same thing of course |
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