Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Oh, yes. People who order coffee in pubs would definitely get the old 'Genickschuss' as well. But that's pure, legitimate fury. It's the cold-blooded judicial type of killing I find distasteful.

More seriously, the aptness of the punishment is less important to me than what it does to the society and people who endorse it.
The death penalty is alive and kicking (as such) in the USA and there is a very rounded society.