[dighton]

"In a goodwill gesture to Mr. Straw, the Pakistanis agreed to shorten the condemned man's drop by three feet."

;-)

[Orual]

"The Pakistani authorities are already well aware of our position on this issue."

Yes, and the Brits are well aware of the Pakistani position on the "issue". Game, set, match.

[general_re]

Come with me, back to a different age, an age almost lost in the mists of time, an age when modern ideas had yet to take hold. Come with me, way back to the Dark Age that was...1964, so that we might learn about the last men that the UK saw fit to hang...

1964 - how...medieval of them. And then, if you're interested, we'll take a trip way back to 1977 (who remembers such ancient history?) to learn about the last French execution, and recall how the French, the holders of the moral high-ground, were still guillotining folks in the 1970's...