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Originally posted by ilw@8 July 2003 - 08:57
Wow, I thought the split would be the other way round (ie lots more without death penalty).
Anyway if u allow capital punishment, how come not corporal punishment? Surely corporal is the next logical step from imprsionment. In my mind the order goes:
Imprisonment, corporal punishment, disfigurement (eg removal of hands/ tattooing of prominent parts of the body), capital punishment and maybe ultimately torture before death.
Yet i'm sure lots of advocates of the death penalty would see steps 2 and 3 as cruel?????
Have you any idea how we have agonized over the definition of "cruel and unusual"?