@notsoneutral said [^](/forum/redirect/post/NoJtjHf6)
> https://www.amnesty.org.au/australia-must-intervene-over-us-plans-to-livestream-execution/
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> >Pete Hegseth’s comments about the planned execution of Nidal Hasan are deeply disturbing. The suggestion that an execution by firing squad should be livestreamed for public viewing is an appalling disregard for human dignity. **Turning a state-sanctioned killing into a public spectacle** only compounds the...
@tpr
>Medieval Europe
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>**Documented public executions date back to at least the late medieval period**, and peaked in the later sixteenth century. This peak was due in part to the witch trials of the early modern period. In the late Middle Ages, executioners used increasingly brutal methods designed to inflict pain on the victim while still alive and to generate a spectacle in order to deter others from committing crimes. The cruelty of the mode of execution (including the amount victims were tortured before the actual execution) was also more or less extreme depending on the crime itself. Punishments often invoked the "purifying" powers of earth (burial), water (drowning), and fire (burning alive). Victims were also decapitated, quartered, hanged, and beaten. Bodies or body parts were often displayed in public places and authorities took pains to ensure that remains would stay visible for as long as possible.
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>However, the death penalty was not used in all parts of Europe. Vladimir the Great abolished the death penalty in Kievan Rus' following his conversion to Christianity in 988.
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_execution
I can understand with authoritarian regimes having justice system matching values of Old Testament era. With a modern democracy like USA it is flabbergasting .
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is in the Middle Ages. That is why he has a big crusader cross tattoo on his chest.
It is back to the Middle Ages. And there's not much more to say than what Aron Ra already said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_wbh60PnYA
I do not support capital punishment under any circumstances, whether its public or not. It should have been abolished long ago in the United States in my opinion. It is simply inhumane and unchristian.
@morphyms1817 said ^
Back in the Middle Ages, murder was not tolerated in civilized society.
Let’s go back there, then!
@morphyms1817 said [^](/forum/redirect/post/CvgmPlrQ)
> Back in the Middle Ages, murder was not tolerated in civilized society.
Let’s go back there, then!
Christa Pike requested a firing squad as she was afraid the injection would not be lethal to her.
A public execution of Nidal Hasan would make him a martyr and offer an audience of millions for his last words.
During the First World War French soldiers were publicly put to death by firing squad for cowardice in front of the enemy.
The movie Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick is based on true facts.
The movie was long forbidden in France.
@morphyms1817 said [^](/forum/redirect/post/CvgmPlrQ)
> Back in the Middle Ages, murder was not tolerated in civilized society.
The Middle Ages was one of the bloodiest times in history...
@Katzenschinken said [^](/forum/redirect/post/dfz2sC0A)
> It is back to the Middle Ages. And there's not much more to say than what Aron Ra already said:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_wbh60PnYA
When viewing at 00:02:05, I could not help and think of one of the most celeb Donald SS Jennifer's licker here . Lol
@tpr said [^](/forum/redirect/post/CuMhWQ7u)
> Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is in the Middle Ages. That is why he has a big crusader cross tattoo on his chest.
Are you telling me the guy who said
>no to weirdos and beardos soldiers
have been serving with a tattoo that made him look like a Hell's Angels ?