Some Christian or Roman should call the House of Saud and tell them that, if you cut off someone’s head before you crucify them, you are doing it wrong.
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I’d be better able to annoy Hurria by flaunting my profound sense of western superiority over such bizarre and savage practices if I hadn’t just received mail from the IRS saying that I still owe several thousand dollars for my share of the expenses from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
Darn it.
LOL!
For what it is worth, I am at a loss to understand how it is less bizarre and savage to dose someone with tranquilizers, then ceremonially strap him to a table, and pump a series of death-dealing drugs into his veins.
It’s not less bizarre and savage, especially considering that the protocol for lethal injection in human executions is actually considered inhumane by veterinarians.
In any case, I think it’s to the enduring shame of the west that we recoil in horror at beheadings — which, at most, kill one person at a time and require considerable effort — but think nothing of dropping thousands of tons of explosives on third world countries in wars where civilians account for over 95% of the causalties, and then deny the reality of it by using bland terminology like “collateral damage”. And this while we sit on top of tens of thousands of thermonuclear warheads we reserved for ending the world in a dispute over the allocation of property with a nation that doesn’t even exist anymore.
But that’s the west for you. We aim high, but with the utmost insincerity.
you know, it’s okay to decry public executions even when it is the Saudis who are performing them. Really, it’s not snobbery or imperialism.
l suppose there’s something to be said for continuity.
/snark
If you inspire two private killers to imitate the State taking of one life, how have you served the general public or God? The evidence is, poorly..[deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-1996-2007]
Off topic but abortion doctor murdered at church
Oddly, it does not seem all that off topic.