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iemanja

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10. Hanging is an especially barbaric form of execution

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:03 AM

20 hrs ago

The French invented the guillotine as a more humane method of execution. Israel is showing its desire to be excessively cruel. What they fail to realize is that state-mandated punishment acts as a mirror onto the society that inflicts it, as well as to those who defend it.

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