[HN Gopher] Violent Ends: Early modern methods of execution ___________________________________________________________________ Violent Ends: Early modern methods of execution Author : drdee Score : 17 points Date : 2022-12-13 05:04 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.historytoday.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.historytoday.com) | greggarious wrote: | Interesting read OP!! | | The guillotine was probably the most humane way of execution your | aim is to simply erase someone from this earth before they spread | their ideas any further, rather than to inflict pain. The latter | is not OK. Violence should be minimized and only used in reaction | to a deadly threat. | | On the other hand... while capital punishment is cruel, some | people are so antisocial that they must be removed from civil | society lest they attempt further genocide. | | To give a specific example from history, I was a fan when I | learned Norway abolished the death penalty YEARS before the 1988 | European Convention on Human Rights, but briefly brought it back | to kill some Nazis[1]: | | >Norway abolished the death penalty for civilian crimes in 1905, | but was retained for certain military crimes in wartime.[1] | During the Nazi occupation of Norway (1940-1945), capital | punishment was introduced by Vidkun Quisling's regime in | September 1942, and the first of a total of nineteen executions | was carried out on 16 August 1943, when police officer Gunnar | Eilifsen was executed for disobedience. Before this, German law | had applied, and four hundred Norwegians had already been | executed. In 1941, the Nygaardsvold's Cabinet exiled in London | allowed for the death penalty after the war, and expanded its | scope in 1942 to cover torture and murder. The legal purge that | followed the occupation resulted in several death sentences, of | which 37 people: 25 Norwegians, 11 Germans, and one Dane, were | executed.[7] The last execution took place on 27 August 1948, | when Ragnar Skancke was put before a firing squad at Akershus | Fortresss. | | [1] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Norway#M... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-14 23:01 UTC)