Comments on: debaser http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2005/11/29/debaser/ exciting, informative, snarky, and very likely fabricated tales of life as an american expat in london Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:29:51 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jen http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2005/11/29/debaser/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jen Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:50:52 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=558#comment-30 you'll have to ask the supreme court that one. Apparently it's no longer "cruel and unusual", though nothing has actually changed. Amazing how people's lives carry different weight depending on the current politics. according to this article: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/death-penalty-reaches-grisly-milestone-in-america/2005/11/29/1133026469677.html" rel="nofollow">Since 1976 the US has performed 829 executions by lethal injection, 152 by electric chair, 11 in gas chambers, 3 by hanging, 2 by firing squad.</a> you’ll have to ask the supreme court that one. Apparently it’s no longer “cruel and unusual”, though nothing has actually changed. Amazing how people’s lives carry different weight depending on the current politics.

according to this article: Since 1976 the US has performed 829 executions by lethal injection, 152 by electric chair, 11 in gas chambers, 3 by hanging, 2 by firing squad.

]]> By: gillian http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2005/11/29/debaser/comment-page-1/#comment-28 gillian Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:28:49 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=558#comment-28 Disregarding the possibility of these death row convicts being innocent and falsely accused, I just think that the death penalty is rather barbaric. How is it any more progressive than public hangings and the guillotine? Disregarding the possibility of these death row convicts being innocent and falsely accused, I just think that the death penalty is rather barbaric. How is it any more progressive than public hangings and the guillotine?

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