I may be mistaken, but I think the death penalty may still be on the books in Canada for military high treason, although it hasn't been invoked for a good long time. I'll try to verify that. --
STG
What is used for lethal injections in capital punishment in the US ?
Check out this page:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/lethal-injection4.htm. Several different drugs are administered for any given execution. BTW, Howstuffworks.com is an excellent site that everyone should take a look at. --
STG
The evidence shows clearly that capital punishment INCREASES the rate of serious crime. This has been known for approximately 5000 years. It comes up every time a society bothers to keep acurate records of crime and punishment statistics, and also either abolishes or re-establishes the death penalty. Why this is controversial in the face of totally overwhelming evidence, i don't know, but it is :-( What should be the wikipedia policy about Neutral Point of View in the face of such insanity?
- To say that it's more important than ever, because obviously, very many perfectly well-educated, extremely intelligent people take various sides on this issue. Why should you pretend otherwise in an article that is supposed to represent what "is known or believed" on the issue? That would make the article straightforwardly inaccurate. I think your view is actually one step away from censorship. --LMS
Evidence of increse ? Where ? --
Taw
I've only heard about decrese and no-effect so far.
You can
report in as much detail as you could possibly please about what various people believe. This means you can supply all the facts and arguments that lead you consider your position, whatever it is, to be so obviously correct. In the main article, to write from a neutral point of view, you do not need to use vague language. "Generally considered" is actually to be avoided precisely
because it can be so easily abused by people with an agenda. Perhaps you haven't really practiced writing from the
neutral point of view enough, so that you confuse it with simply bad, vague writing of the sort that can be found in textbooks and newspapers. --
LMS
What does "rating on the mob" mean? Disembowelling is a little precise, but not colloquial - the usual English term is "Drawing and quartering." And we've got to have "beheading," which is after all still practiced. (I just got a mention of Thomas More's head into his entry).
Which leads to another potential topic, the history of the guillotine. Why yes, I think that -- that must be morbid curiosity. :-)
"Rating on the mob" should probably be rendered "Ratting on the mob," and is a gratuitous attempt at humor in an otherwise (deadly!) serious article. Breaking the code of silence and reporting the activities of organized crime to law enforcement ooficials is a fairly sure way to end one's life.
branteaton
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