On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> But if a majority of the population supports executions or those
> who inflict
> death, then executions are legitimate and understandable, at least in
> certain corners of the world.
I suppose. Today's FT has an article on how the Afghan population is cheering the return of capital punishment as an antidote to criminal anarchy (the bad kind of anarchy, of course). Some are even calling for public executions, not seen since the days of the Taliban.
Doug