Thoughts on Capital Punishment

Lol pull the other one.
You do know most of those countries on that list arent dictatorships, let alone of the 'worst kind'. I mean conflating Tunisia and DPRK is just ridiculous.

All the countries I described are Dictatorships apart from the USA.

These are places where there is no regard for human rights and they happily employ torture and of course capital punishments.

I forgot to include

Turkmenistan
Afghanistan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
etc

So should only men and people who identify themselves as male receive a death penalty? Not us women? Cause women can't be convinced of rape... Or be labeled as "rapists"

No they aren't. some are autocratic, several are actually democratic and then theres a few autocracies/theocracies.

I find it weird that you're bashing these countries for employing torture and capital punishment but trying to brush aside the fact the US does as well? Never mind it actually employed several of these countries to torture on its behalf.
What exactly is 'etc.' meant to mean in this regard? Or are you simply using it to mean any country you feel like?

I will say it again for once more that the countries I have described are all dictatorships. That includes autocracirs and theocracies. From Turkmenistan to Iran, and from Liberia to Bangladesh.

Yes.
It tends to be more fundamentalist christians, the american affiliated bible belt crowd and some otherwise liberal members of the CoE that favour capital punishment.

In my experience, most British catholics tend to oppose the death penalty.
But are more liberal as regards the police & military shoot to kill policy in relation to dangerous criminals or defending themselves/families/possessions against burglars.

I just tend to capitalise races. I did it with Latino as well, and I would do it with White, Asian or Polynesian.

It's probably not grammatically correct, but I'm consistent with myself.

Obviously against the Death Penalty.

As I am trying to spice up the conversation and decade I can add that the UK is not:

North Korea
Vietnam
China
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Iran
Yemen
Burma
Syria
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
Libya
Nigeria
etc
Oops ... And the USA


Do we understand the argument now??

Certainly we are not like these countries. Except USA the rest have no regard for human rights and never had in the past. These countries are usually governed by brutal dictators and they are dictatorships of the worst kind. Of course they will employ torture & capital Punishment.

Cool. I’m sure many people are in favour of executing pedophiles .
However if we are going to do that we need to have parameters .
So what would be the youngest age at which a pedophile would be executed , 18 I take it ?
And what would be the oldest age of that 18 year olds victim or victims that would still lead to execution ?
Also how are we to define pedophile ? We need to know if we are going to be shooting them I reckon .

I ask partly because I personally know or used to know of no less than four couples who got together when the male was over 18 and the female was 15 or 14 .
Would we be shooting those males ? Or is it ok to have sex with an underage girl if you get married ?
Of course some men think getting married was worse than getting shot would have been but still .🙉

I actually tried to put a bill to change this into MHoC but it got withdrawn due to controversy and other reasons

Glad it got withdrawn doing DP's for only rape would be sexist...

I'm fore capital punishment, for some forms of crime, eg Murder, a life for a life, prison these days in my view is no deterrent, in alot of cases they have all the creature comforts of home, to me that is no punishment.

The Bill was to make it that women could rape men...

I see then IDK why people disagreed with it then

Because MHoC is filled with nutters

Then you don't know what an autocracy is.

I'm a bit surprised that there's such a large amount of Anglicans in favour of capital punishment - then again, Anglican realignment is a thing.

American Protestants do definitely support the death penalty from my experience.

Thanks for explaining - it's just not something I've seen before.

My friend Isaac's a second-generation Nigerian immigrant. Please tell him how Nigeria's a brutal dictatorship given that you have presumably never been to Nigeria.
And surely the USA being on that list goes against your claim that the death penalty's only used by brutal dictatorships?

Because MHoC is filled with nutters

You pick and choose what you say and one example does not disprove my claim. USA is a federation of states where 1/3 don't have the death penalty sbd the other 2/3 do have it. Even though most states haven't executed anyone in many years. Only a few states apply thr death penalty and Texas has most executions from every other state that actively employs capital Punishment.

Nope. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/india-executes-four-men-convicted-of-2012-delhi-bus-and

There it is - the one thing me and you can agree on.

Your point being? Texas isn't a dictatorial theocracy last I checked.

India has capital punishment and is a democracy...

That doesn't mean capital punishment is inherently dictatorial - America and India have it and are functioning democracies.

Please do us all a favour and tell a heavily armed Texan he isn't civilised.

In that order:
Sweden abolished in 1973, Denmark in 1978, Britain in 1998, Belgium in 1996, France in 1981, Italy in 1948, Greece in 2004 and Germany in 1987.
There are people in my school right now who were born while Greece was still carrying out executions - the death penalty is definitely not some relic of a medieval age despite what you may think.

Explain to me how America is a theocracy?