Really? I guess all executions should happen in front of people including kids. I agree with the death penalty and you have your right to your opinion but proposing public executions again is reverting back quite a few years. Animals that kill people have no business being part of society.
I didn't propose public executions; I said I don't think private executions are so much better. It is you who wants executions, not I.
Animals
are a part of society.
I told you why but you dismissed it without explanation.
No, you didn't say why then, but you have now.
It is a fail because you are comparing a legal, for cause criminal execution with a barbaric, illegal execution in a public place.
Why is that a fail? You're comparing a battlefield execution - which is not necessarily either illegal or without cause particularly in a place without any courts or courthouses left standing - nothing but rubble. Most private places have been blown to smithereens. I thought the cause given was collaborating with the enemy, which, as treason, would be cause for execution here as well, theoretically.
How is being shot in the head more barbaric than South Carolina's firing squad? Is it really so much more civilized to shoot them in the torso? Texas still hangs people - how is that less barbaric?
No. I want to see you condemn Hamas for their barbaric actions.
And I want to see world peace. I condemn Hamas for executing their own citizens just as I condemn all nations that do so.
Apparently, it's not the "executing their own citizens" that is the real sticking point, as you support it when it's done "properly". Again, I think executing neighboring citizens or even citizens from the other side of the world is more egregious than executing one's own.
There is a difference between executions after a judicial process with several decades worth of appeals and just accusing people and shooting them like dogs in the street.
Yeah, a lot of people here don't get several decades worth of appeals while others do. Three decades is the record so far for longest and less than a year the record for shortest in Texas:
According to TDCJ's Death Row Facts page, the average length of time spent on death row prior to execution is 11 years, the shortest time on death row prior to execution was 252 days and the longest time spent on death row before an execution was 31 years. The average age of inmates executed is 39 and the youngest man executed was at age 24.
(Beaumont Enterprise link)
I don't agree with either, but I recognise that they are not equivalent.
There is also a difference between a [somewhat] stable, first world country at peace and a occupied, war torn country that's been largely destroyed. Even the US has separate laws for peacetime and wartime battlefield executions.
Do you believe Hamas implementing capital punishment to its citizens without trial is equivalent to the US judicial process, where a unanimous verdict from twelve jurors is required for capital punishment?
Do you think the situations of the two governments are equivalent? Does Gaza even have courts now?
The US with all its courts and lawyers have nevertheless executed innocent people even if it did take its own sweet time with it. Remember, the Supreme Court ruled that actual innocence is not sufficient cause to stay the death penalty if procedure was followed.
Please note, I am not defending Hamas' executing its own citizens but equally condemning our doing so. "Its own citizens" is not the sticking point; obviously, the actual problem with so many are defending executions per se, it's perhaps the lack of due process?
