Some elements are abhorrent, ordering rough justice, summary execution of criminals and issuing severe religious decrees.
I'm often asked to sing before the state-run execution of criminals here in the States.
After a 15-year hiatus, the state resumed in 1979 the regular execution of criminals who had been convicted of capital crimes.
Previous to the French Revolution, similar devices were in use in Scotland, England, and various other European countries often for the execution of criminals of noble birth.
Of the 38 states that authorize the death penalty, 17 permit the execution of criminals who were 16 when they committed murder.
They point to worrisome signs: the banning of an antipipeline protest, the temporary closure of an irreverent radio station, the execution of criminals after what critics believe to be incomplete trials.
You believe that only by a form of shock therapy – a measure once favoured by former long-serving autocrat Suharto, who ordered the street-style execution of criminals in the 80s –could you truly crack down on drug traffickers.
He brought forward a bill to extend the measure permitting the dissection after execution of criminals such as rapists, arsonists and thieves.
Still, perhaps because I am one, it vexes me to know that so many "Christians" zealously support the execution of criminals.
Writing in 1914, Eleanor Maddock noted that in Kashmir, since the arrival of Europeans, "many of the old customs are disappearing – and one of these is the dreadful custom of the execution of criminals by an elephant trained for the purpose and which was known by the hereditary name of 'Gunga Rao'".
Nancy Grace, for the uninitiated, is a former prosecutor who hosts her self-titled show on HLN, where she becomes furious at the evils that men do four times a week and stops just short of calling for the public execution of criminals.
