Hard to see how it could be further worsened given that this has been a steady and very accurate criticism of the us (and especially from russia) since..oh, idk, ww2? It's a sad state of affairs when people in nothereistans lives depend on whether some nutter in another nothereistani country can be convinced that the us is the great satan.

On the brighter side, a few states will vote to ban slavery in November. That's right, slave labor is still technically legal at the federal level in the US, so long as you are in prison. We can only hope that as many states as possible decide in their own state constitutions to nullify that part.

Doubtful, states like arizona depend on prison labor to provide services. It's become too big to fail.

The word "mass" is what sticks in the craw.

(October 22, 2022 at 11:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The word "mass" is what sticks in the craw.

Bingo lolly. When the Saudis behead 81 people within a few hours, THAT’S a ‘mass execution’.

Boru

A single execution is one too many. Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month. It is shameful.

(October 23, 2022 at 6:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: A single execution is one too many.  Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month.  It is shameful.

I agree - I’m not supporting capital punishment (you’ll never see me do that). I’m simply objecting to your choice of adjective.

Boru

(October 23, 2022 at 6:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: A single execution is one too many.  Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month.  It is shameful.

No one is arguing for or against the policy of the death penalty. It's being pointed out that your exaggeration does your point no favors. Your title is a bit click-baity to me.

(October 23, 2022 at 9:15 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(October 23, 2022 at 6:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: A single execution is one too many.  Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month.  It is shameful.

No one is arguing for or against the policy of the death penalty. It's being pointed out that your exaggeration does your point no favors. Your title is a bit click-baity to me.

Right now there are approximately 2500 human beings on the various death rows across the United States, both at the state level with 50 or so individuals who are on federal and military death rows.  Given the state of SCOTUS, there is nothing that is preventing these individuals from being executed, except, of course, time.  I suppose that one could argue over the adjective "mass", but, to me, when a society is executing multiple individuals per day, such falls into the "mass executions" category.  Unlike scales of obesity, I must admit that there is no universal standard that can be appealed to, except, to say, that of the several dozen or so Western-like democracies, only the United States & Japan are executing prisoners, and with Japan, they perform their hangings during the last week of the year, usually, a few days before New Year's Eve.  But, as we are talking about living, sentient human beings, I believe the adjective in my OP to be an appropriate one.  I think that it is disgusting to execute a human being, but to have more than one execution on the same day is even more despicable.  I realize that the linguists at Merriam Webster may not agree with me on this one but the "special circumstances" makes the adjective, I believe, an appropriate one.

2 executions in one day in a country is not 'mass' anything.

The title is indeed misleading.