punishment

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/22/pakistan.harsh.justice/index.html Now that is justice! An eye for an eye. Sort of. It was reported that one of the defendants complained that the ruling smelled bad, at which point the judge said, "Not for long".

I AM IN FAVOR OF TORTURE AS A FITTING PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE FOUND BEYOND A REASON ABLE DOUBT TO BE GUILTY OF THE MOST HEINOUS CRIMES! Before you jump out of your skin with outrage, let me present my arguments for this point of view. I realise that many/most of you will find much/everything wrong...

Sin, Punishment, and Consciousness A few days ago I saw in the newspaper a cartoon showing a distraught, anguished, and horrified Uncle Sam holding in his arms the body of a child while he looked over his shoulder at the flames of Iraq. I was raised as a Catholic; I was taught by the nuns the...

By a technicality, Foley escapes punishment by Congress: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_Foley_Ethics_Probe.html

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20051006-121717-4560r.htm Even though this is not law yet, it is very good news that 90% of the senate has some morality. I hope that they follow through on this. In the absence of clear law, the president has asserted powers which are clearly...

Locally, some minister got thrown in prison for...get *this* one...for trying to get his 3 live-in foreign young male adults, to bring home women, so that he could *watch* them have sex. Guess what he was charged with? Prostitution. Prostitution? I would be more apt to call this voyeurism. You...

There are a few forms of punishment besides incarceration that I'd like to see given a chance. Life-swapping. This is mainly for murderers and other people who have taken another human being out of society. The people close to your victim now own you. Your job for the rest of your life is to...

"I was caught stealing gas." interesting I wonder if Enron executives and Corperate CEOs and accountant firms that are indicted would have to wear sandwich boards; or would this kind of punsihment only be reserved only for those that don't engage in white coller crime?

Im officially a corporal punishment flag-waver. Lets look at prison. Michael Howard is famous for saying 'prison works'. I disagree. For one, its hellish expensive to keep people like that. Why should society have to pay for the upkeep of transgressors? nonsense! The cost of prisons is also...

This question begs an answer from God. Or...does the question itSELF cause you to wonder about God...his existance, or purpose... or, where man fits into the scheme of things? I was sweeping a basement a couple days ago and my broom came close to a spider. He ran for his life! Even a spider...

Modern countries with death penalty: Japan United States All countries with death penalty: Afghanistan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Botswana Burundi Cameroon Chad China Comoros Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt...

BBC article here. It gives a good view of what opponents of the move think. What do Lebanon's death penalty supporters have to say? I guess the BBC couldn't get any of them to go on the record. One wonders also what the opinion of the Lebanese public is. And why the BBC didn't see fit to...

Muslims undertake jihad on US 911, because US is unjust, criminal and tyrannical, may God punish Americans. It has committed hideous and unjust acts criminal both directly or through its incest patriarch with Israel, may both countries suffer great disgrace and humiliation. US has murdered...

Another stroll down the highways and byways of that peace loving religion. Many of you want to know the if's, then's and else's of removal of body parts Herewith is some current thinking on the matter. As always, from our pals at Islamweb. "There is a Hadith in Saheeh Bukhari in with the...

Apparently, people have different ideas on why we punish people.

I am in a program called CARE, and the first four weeks involve being on house arrest. An officer comes every day to make sure I am following the rules of the program or such, making sure my anklet is still on, etc etc... However, one of the rules involve this: You cannot have any violent or...

This has been bothering me for a while, my question is how do people justify pumishment beyond a pragmatic level for other reasons besides the benefit of either the individual or society. It seems to me, and I may be wrong, that most atheists including myself believe that we do not posess...