But let's say this criminal who is totally evil made a few people suffer really badly? Ending his life would be an easy way out..no suffering no pain for the rest of his life. ANd let's say he doesn't fear death? PUtting him in a dungeon to be revisited each year to be beaten..wouldn't that be a viable punishment? Some say that Gd should do the killing and not us in the name of justice. What do you think of that thought?
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South Africa used to use the principle of total complicity - i.e. that if a gand raided a house, and one of them killed the occupant, then the whole lot would hang. The trouble with hanging in the terrorist context is that it is indeed to quick, and who wants to keep the virgins waiting anyway? In the 19th century, garotting was a widely used alternative.