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2011-10-21 Iraq

Iraq to execute 53 people, including 5 foreigners

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I have no doubt there are more than enough people deserving of the sentence, but is the justice system administering it to appropriate people - and will it continue to?

Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-21 06:15|| 2011-10-21 06:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Glenmore, don't be childish---it's an Arab country.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 06:48|| 2011-10-21 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 They're doing more due diligence and contemplation than any other Arab country I can think of...

Posted by Steve White 2011-10-21 07:45|| 2011-10-21 07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Doc, I don't doubt they're the best of the Arab countries, but I'm not even real thrilled with OUR execution of executions. Not against them per se, but like prosecution in general, it gets to be a 'game' (just released a convicted rapist here after 30 years when exonerating DNA evidence was admitted and considered.) And the temptation everywhere is to use prosecution in general and execution in particular as a tool of politics.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-21 07:53|| 2011-10-21 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 They're doing more due diligence and contemplation than any other Arab country I can think of...

Calculus 101

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 08:12|| 2011-10-21 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Glenmore, I hear you. I personally would reserve the death penalty for one crime only -- multiple murder (terrorists, serial killers and mass murderers). For those folks there is no question of guilt and no chance of earthly redemption.

Everyone else? No execution, and (perhaps) an Office of Review that could, impartially, check out whether someone was jugged improperly years before.

Posted by Steve White 2011-10-21 09:20|| 2011-10-21 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Why am I picturing that scene in Blazing Saddles outside of Lepetomaine's office with the hunch-backed executioner getting ready to hang a rider and his horse, simultaneously?

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-10-21 10:34|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-10-21 10:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Calculus 101

Which teaches us that for every depth, there is one still lower.

Posted by SteveS 2011-10-21 12:11|| 2011-10-21 12:11|| Front Page Top

#9 SteveS you're going off on a tangent there.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-21 12:18|| 2011-10-21 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Consider a sequence of irrational numbers tending to zero, BP.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 15:02|| 2011-10-21 15:02|| Front Page Top

#11 you're going off on a tangent there

Maybe, I but I have not quite reached the limit. And one can secant you my point?

Posted by SteveS 2011-10-21 16:42|| 2011-10-21 16:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Soon to approach infinity, rotating around the end of the y-axis.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-21 17:02|| 2011-10-21 17:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, The Burg, where math majors roam free...

Posted by Steve White 2011-10-21 18:09|| 2011-10-21 18:09|| Front Page Top

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