If no, what punishment in our society today, is better fitting for those that would have warranted capital punishment?
If yes, how and what would someone be sentenced to capital punishment for? And is there a best process that our society can conduct it?
In a recent post on Reddit there was a list of "Modes of Execution in 1895" and it lists 20 European states and China and the way the delivered capital punishment at this time. Italy was listed as the only of these 20 nations in which "capital punishment was abolished". I started to look into this more and found that Venezuela was actually the first nation to abolish capital punishment, and capital punishment in Italy seems to have come back after 1895 under Mussolini anyway.
I would love to hear more about the evolution of health penalty laws especially in the 1800s and 1900s and how that thinking has spread and if Venezuela was a special case abolishing it in the 1860s.
I'd like to know your opinion about this kind of death sentence, which I've read many times it was considered the most shameful, as was crucifixion before Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christ; usually reserved for traitors, petty thieves and low-life criminals, especially in comparison with beheading, which was regarded as a honorable way of dying, reserved for nobles. Thanks a lot!
Cf. for example:
Giovanni De Luna, Il corpo del nemico ucciso (2006);
Samuel Edgerton Jr, Pictures and Punishment: Art and Criminal Prosecution during the Florentine Renaissence (1985);
Robert Mills, Suspended Animation. Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005);
Gherardo Ortalli, La pittura infamante: Secoli XIII-XVI (1979);
Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness. Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (2020).
Came across this historical trend of US polling on capital punishment and found it to have a weird trajectory. Support dips in the mid 1950s and remains at a relatively low level throughout the 1960s before starting to tick up again in the 1970s. Any insight into why this dip occurred during this period? Can it be chalked up to changing polling methodology or an actual ideological shift?
This is Aftab Alam. A member of Parliament elected from Rautahat.
Member of Nepali congress, he has been arrested with charges of explosion "targeting constituent assembly elections". The homemade bomb experiment failed and injured dozens. To get rid of "evidence" as he termed it, the 11 people were told they would be taken to hospitals. They were brought in sacks to a nearby itta bhatta. Where they were put in, and lit on fire, alive.
Though there was murder of at least 23 it is said, he has been charged for 11, and is in jail.
They say the greatest pain anyone can feel is their children dying before them. The 80 year old mother had this to say :
โเคเคฒเคฎเคธเคเค เคชเฅเคธเคพ เค, เคถเคเฅเคคเคฟ เค เฅค เคคเฅเคฏเคธเฅเคเฅ เคฌเคฒเคฎเคพ เฅงเฅจ เคตเคฐเฅเคทเคธเคฎเฅเคฎ เคฌเคเฅเคฐ เคนเคฟเคเคกเฅ เฅค เคฌเคฏเคพเคจ เคฌเคฆเคฒเฅเคจ เคฒเฅเคญ เคฐ เคงเคฎเฅเคเฅ เคเคเคเคพ เคเคจเฅ, เคนเคพเคฎเฅเคฒเคพเค เคชเฅเคธเคพ เคนเฅเคเคจ, เคจเฅเคฏเคพเคฏ เคเคพเคนเคฟเคเคเฅ เค เฅคโ
The woman on the left whose husband was murdered, and took death certificate, said she had no idea about how her husband died. Why do you think she keeps her mouth shut. Was it because somebody came to her and asked if she loved her sons enough ? Why can't she speak up against someone who burnt her husband alive? And justice, what does it mean for her, her sons?
Nepali congress cadres organizing banda after Aftab's arrest.
When police finally made a brave move and arrested him at a wedding, there's videos of him threatening them , and saying " Malai chinya cha ! aba ago balcha ! ago !"
You say Nepal police is corrupt, every organization is corrupt. But when police do arrest peoplle like Alam, make 2 year report on Lalita Niwas scandal, you send it back and instead of jailing them, release them and make police bow to these criminals, what does it do to their morale? When they are actively doing their jobs, but eventually he'll be set free.
I ask this again. Is it evil to execute people who have no shade of humanity in them, or evil to let them live?
Capital punishment should be reserved for the most heinous crimes, and people like Alam deserve to be executed. Liste
... keep reading on reddit โกHonestly between White Bear and White Christmas, is there really a need for the death penalty? Technology has reached a point that this shows there are punishments far worse than death.
I've seen the topic come up a few times in different thread, and I've noticed there's a pretty wide range of opinions on the topic. Some people dismiss it out of hand and consider it inherently illiberal. Others support it for heinous crimes only, while some support it's use generally.
There also seems to be variance as to why people who support it do so. Deterrence, punishment/justice, prevention etc.
So where do you fall? And why? This is assuming cost isn't a factor and death is administered without excessive pain or suffering. So purely on the merits of punishment itself.
Personally I support it in extreme cases only, as a deterrence to anyone who might do something like that. But I'm curious as to what most of this sub thinks.
