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Nothing cruel or unusual. I have witnessed video of such an education. Instant decapitation. No different from the effects of a guillotine.
Beheading by sword is no different from the use of the guillotine.
As for the crucifix. Well, their culture encompasses public viewing of the body. I need not point out that public viewing existed in Europe and colonial America. No foul.
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Originally Posted by Safiel
Nothing cruel or unusual. I have witnessed video of such an education. Instant decapitation. No different from the effects of a guillotine.
Beheading by sword is no different from the use of the guillotine.
As for the crucifix. Well, their culture encompasses public viewing of the body. I need not point out that public viewing existed in Europe and colonial America. No foul.
True, but they existed up until the early 20th Century in some parts of America.
For hundreds of years it was a common event to have a family picnic at executions.
Also, I don't see decapitation as any less humane as the electric chair, gas chamber, or lethal injection. If anything, I find the more 'humane' methods to be creepy--an efficient, painless, clinical method of execution creeps me out.
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever... If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."-Thomas Jefferson, 1789
And in the Judeo-Christian tradition, a rapist could be awarded with marriage to the victim.
This verse of the Bible is poorly translated. The verse is not about rape, it is about a man having a sexual relationship with a virgin he is not married to. She and her father have the right to either demand marriage or demand her dowry from the man. According to Jewish law, the dowry is $30,000 - $60,000 in US currency.
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"Exodus 22:17 from the JPS bible, (Jewish translation which is much better then NIV) since we are dealing with a Jewish answer:
And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, HE SHALL PAY MONEY ACCORDING TO THE DOWRY OF VIRGIN. "
Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling
Tue Nov 3, 2009 2:22pm IST
RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
The convict was arrested earlier this year after a seven-year old boy helped police in their investigation. The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old, Okaz newspaper said.
International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. So far this year about 40 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia.
In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading.
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