(January 9, 2022 at 2:36 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: What's your criteria for humane punishments? Throwing someone in jail isn't punishment, it's just putting them with like-minded individuals [sic], it doesn't really discourage one from stealing, unlike cutting off hands.Congratulations on agreeing that you are just as immoral as the other Islamist. That makes now at least two uncivilized brutes in this forum. Good to know.
Yes, cutting off one's hands is harsh and horrible. But isn't a proper punishment supposed to be horrible?
The funny* part is everytime you two are bickering about who has the correct way of barbarism. Like two thieves in front of a court arguing who is better at theft.
*on second thought rather depressing, considering there are literally (hundreds?) of millions as immoral, ignorant and uncivilized as you are.
Isnt a proper punishment supposed to be horrible? Lets see, shall we? Robert Damiens tried to assassinate French King Louis XV, but failed. According to the french law, he was sentenced to death for regicide.
Quote:On the morning of 28 March 1757 the execution started. He was first subjected to a torture in which his legs were painfully compressed by devices called "boots". He was then tortured with red-hot pincers; the hand with which he had held the knife during the attempted assassination was burned using sulphur; molten wax, molten lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds. He was then remanded to the royal executioner Charles Henri Sanson who, after emasculating Damiens, harnessed horses to his arms and legs to be dismembered. But Damiens's limbs did not separate easily: the officiants ordered Sanson to cut Damiens's tendons, and once that was done the horses were able to perform the dismemberment. Once Damiens was dismembered, to the applause of the crowd, his reportedly still-living torso was burnt at the stake. (Some accounts say he died when his last remaining arm was removed.)
150 years earlier, Francois Ravaillac successfully assassinated Henry IV. He also was sentenced to death for regicide. Guess what happened?!
Quote:On May 27 he was taken to the Place de Grève in Paris and was tortured one last time before being pulled apart by four horses, a method of execution reserved for regicides. Alistair Horne describes the torture Ravaillac suffered: "Before being drawn and quartered... he was scalded with burning sulphur, molten lead and boiling oil and resin, his flesh then being torn by pincers." Following his execution, Ravaillac's parents were forced into exile, and the rest of his family was ordered never to use the name "Ravaillac" again.
Harsh and horrible, wasnt it? But isn't a proper punishment supposed to be horrible? Considering that Damiens most probably knew about Ravaillac, but still attempted regicide, maybe Ravaillacs punisment wasnt horrible proper enough?
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