Originally posted by millermanThis is a really interesting article, thanks for sharing it. recced. At first, I thought it might be making references to those who committed the executions, because they would require pardons more than anyone, I would think. I think the relatives should certainly receive compensation from the government, as well as some sort of apology/recognition. I think given this day and age, it is worth embracing the fact that conditions such as shell-shock and the like, cannot always be interpreted as cowardice! Furthermore, that cowardice is not best dealt with by execution.
Good or Bad?
For me it raises all sorts of questions!!
The main question- Should they're executioners be branded as murderers as the "Victims" were branded Cowards!!!
The second- Should their relatives receive Compensation for their premature deaths?
Just a few thoughts from the top of my head...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4796579.stm
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Originally posted by millerman"The main question- Should they're executioners be branded as murderers as the "Victims" were branded Cowards!!! "
Good or Bad?
For me it raises all sorts of questions!!
The main question- Should they're executioners be branded as murderers as the "Victims" were branded Cowards!!!
The second- Should their relatives receive Compensation for their premature deaths?
Just a few thoughts from the top of my head...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4796579.stm
An interesting fact, is that a firing squad is given some blanks and some live bullets and no-one knows who has which. Thus no one soldier can possibly be held culpable for the death of the deserter.
Obviously those mad, upper class 'Melchit-like' twits of Generals had thought of this one.
Originally posted by howardgeeGood point. Perhaps it is the Generals themselves who should be held responsible for giving such orders?
"The main question- Should they're executioners be branded as murderers as the "Victims" were branded Cowards!!! "
An interesting fact, is that a firing squad is given some blanks and some live bullets and no-one knows who has which. Thus no one soldier can possibly be held culpable for the death of the deserter.
Obviously those mad, upper class 'Melchit-like' twits of Generals had thought of this one.
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Originally posted by PhilodorPerhaps, because we now believe capital punishment to be wrong, we should apologise for all who have been executed in the past.
Nonsense. One may as well argue that all those who have been hanged in the past should now be pardoned on the grounds that some may have been wrongly convicted.
"Obviously those mad, upper class 'Melchit-like' twits of Generals had thought of this one." (howardgee)
I think that, perhaps, they were thinking of the soldiers actually firing the weapons and their mental health, plus reprisals from berieved family members etc. (The same reason that executioners traditionally wear masks.)
This entire issue is being taken drastically out of context. Apart from anything else, those 306 deaths all took place during an extremely bloody war, in which generations were practically wiped out. We live in an era in which the media holds so much power, that a small number of deaths result in immediate uproar - no bad thing. But the mentality would have been so utterly different during WWI and before. You can't simply judge those in the past from our modern viewpoint, easy as it may be.