[HN Gopher] Violent Ends: Early modern methods of execution
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       Violent Ends: Early modern methods of execution
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-12-13 05:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | 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...
        
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