Quote Originally Posted by Norton
Humane, painless vs barbaric, painful execution arguments are interesting but the end result is the same. The "criminal" is dead. Always find it interesting proponents of the death penalty argue it is a deterrent but label public stoning as barbaric.
The places that have these public stonings have the death penalty in it's many forms for many different offences.
Where the death penalty is talked about and condemned by so many just happens to be the USA and it is only done in a painless a way as possible to people that have commited hineous major crimes such as first degree murder in its most brutal forms and is rarely even carried out in most states even tho the criminal is a mass murderer.
For the penaltys of stoning in such countrys that practise it, it is done for crimes that in most states of the USA there is not even a statute again doing it, Adultry,? maybe you can get a divorce from your spouse for getting caught at it, but that is all, and where rape is not taken as an offense again the raper but might stone the rapee, while in the USA if the crime is severe enough it can also bring capitol punishment.