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Originally posted by twhiteheadI think his point is that execution doesn't rhyme well with peaceful practices. The US never claimed to be a country of peace. In fact, as a nation they seem to take pride in waging wars and pillaging natural resources. 🙄
How many were executed in the US in the last year?
-Removed-1. I oppose the death sentence.
2. I don't differentiate between the method used, i.e. I don't particularly think beheading is any better or worse than other methods, and I am unimpressed by the (perhaps physiologically true) assertion that it is more "humane" than other ways of executing people.
3. I think public executions are grotesque and pornographic, so to speak, although if you are going to execute people, I'm not sure why it should be done in private or secret; I don't think it sanitizes it at all.
4. That she may have not committed the crime is one of the reasons why I think No.1 above.
5. The list of crimes that one can be executed for in that country boggles my mind.
6. The aspect of Saudi culture that allows powerful men to do what they did in that video to a fellow citizen is ghastly and backward, to my way of thinking.
-Removed-Oh of course you don't wan't to address my point, because you know it will make you look bad.
You seem to be claiming that capital punishment is not typical in a peaceful society. So, tell us whether you think the US is a peaceful society and whether or not they have capital punishment.
If I have interpreted your OP wrong, then explain where I have got it wrong and what you really wanted to say. I dislike it when people try to keep everything they want to say in implied speech rather than openly stating their case because they know their case is on shaky ground.
Originally posted by C HessPresumably the Saudi view would be that, if there were no armed robbery, drug-related offences, sorcery, adultery, murder, rape and apostasy from Islam (etc.), either [1] in accordance with their religion, or [2] because you kill everybody who does those things, then you would have peace.
I think his point is that execution doesn't rhyme well with peaceful practices. The US never claimed to be a country of peace. In fact, as a nation they seem to take pride in waging wars and pillaging natural resources. 🙄
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Originally posted by FMFBy that standard any ideology would be considered peaceful.
Presumably the Saudi view would be that, if there were no armed robbery, drug-related offences, sorcery, adultery, murder, rape and apostasy from Islam (etc.), either [1] in accordance with their religion, or [2] because you kill everybody who does those things, then you would have peace.
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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/race-death-row-inmates-executed-1976
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent
Only about 56 innocent people executed. 2,054 victims from those executed.
http://www.census.gov/popclock/
So we could've been at a population of about 8 billion+ by now.
http://www.numberofabortions.com
With blacks being among 15% of US population 30 out of 100 abortions are blacks. So instead of having a population of 50 million we could population of 65 million blacks.
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Originally posted by RBHILL
With blacks being among 15% of US population 30 out of 100 abortions are blacks. So instead of having a population of 50 million we could population of 65 million blacks.
I cannot help but feel an ironic twist fate an poetic justice awaits the world. The pigmentation of darker skin aids in preventing damage of harmful rays of light from the sun.
If the Ozone layer is destroyed by man's technology and the cases of skin cancer run wild throughout the light skinned population, everyone is going to want to have dark skin.
-Removed-I think that the death penalty in Saudi has more to do with a corrupt medieval state than religion. One, it has to be said, that the West is perfectly happy to prop up. If they were Christian they would be justifying their judicial practices on the basis of the contents of Leviticus rather than the Koran.