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Outcry over violent crime has also been increasing, and some analysts saw the executions as an attempt by Mr. Karzai to appear responsive.
So we regard public executions as an anachronistic barbarity, to say nothing of flogging, the stocks, and other pre-modern forms of punishment.
Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, described the executions as an "unjust aggression".
"As long as senior police officials such as Waseso are allowed to advocate extrajudicial executions as an acceptable crime control solution, there is a serious risk that police will interpret those exhortations as a license to kill," Phelim Kine, the deputy director of HRW's Asia division, said.
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European democracies have outlawed executions, as has most of South America (a few countries make exceptions for war crimes).
Shakespeare writes about torture and public executions as a spectacle.
It is a regime that still practices executions as a public spectacle.
The pope, in a speech to religious leaders on Sunday, described those mass executions as a "murderous frenzy".
There is even evidence that some senior officers believed in a kind of 'frontline eugenics' and used executions as a way of culling the weak and unfit.
China is wary enough about its death penalty system that it has long designated its number of executions as a state secret.
To address this problem, we present a technique called speculative plan execution, an out-of-order method that capitalizes on knowledge gained from prior executions as a means for overcoming remaining data dependencies between plan operators.
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