The Last Executioner

lomuamart · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the clarification, GP.
That's dreadful.
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poisoner · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

dtaai-maai · Ace Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 1125 Location: Thailand

Poisoner, I've just had a look at my response to your original posting and have to confess to a large portion of Embarassed

. It was Hyde wot wrote it, honest. I think sang som might have accounted for rather more than grumpiness. Thanks for your exceedingly fair response!

I've also had another look at the link, and it's (still) not a book I'd go out of my way to get hold of, but having said that I'd never (normally, ahem) have a go at anyone for discussing any sort of book; I enjoy reading, and reasonably priced books are hard to come by here.

If anybody in this area has a large selection sitting around on shelves, there's a thread somewhere around (can't remember which section, sorry, but it was Dawn's idea) in which the subject of a local book exchange is mentioned.
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redzonerocker · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:21 am Post subject: apology

fair play to you d-m, thats a fair & decent apology. thumbs up

sometimes takes a bigger man to make such a gesture.
i did chuckle at your original post though, thinking it was a little overboard.poisoners reponse was pure class too! thumbs up

not my choice of reading material either but not quite bad enough for me to put my head down the pan Very Happy

alls well that ends well Cheers

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poisoner · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject:

sandman67 · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

This is interesting....In England till the turn of the 1900s there was a tradition in place that if a hangmans rope broke three times the prisoner was pardoned as God did not intend the man to die.

France had a similar policy with the guillotine jamming....

At the end of the day executions are murders on behalf of the state, and serve no purpose other than to exact visible and state sanctioned revenge, and save money on holding a prisoner for a full life sentence.

China and America, two of the worlds biggest executioners are both also the states with high crime rates......seems that the "deterrent" argument doesnt work....

redzonerocker · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: execution