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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Crucifixion, stoning, drawing and quartering, burning at the stake, evisceration and dismemberment are not just an "honest difference of opinion" in the treatment of criminals.

Exactly. If the Nazis still ran Germany we wouldn't be saying something like "well how they operate their concentration camps is their business just as long as they keep it in their borders." Canada's opposition to the U.S. death penalty isn't the same thing as our objecting to the barbaric practices of the muslim nations. Cutting off peoples hands and feet for stealing a loaf of bread sounds like something out of Europe's dark ages.

76 posted on 10/02/2001 3:18:43 PM PDT by epow
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To: epow
Cutting off peoples hands and feet for stealing a loaf of bread sounds like something out of Europe's dark ages.

Actually, I think this custom was practiced in China until the last 100 years or so. The Christian West abolished the practice.

88 posted on 10/02/2001 4:41:36 PM PDT by independentmind
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