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[johnslat]

Dear Bebsi,

The last public execution in England was about 144 years ago.

The Times Report of the Last Public Hanging in England

The Times May 27, 1868.

The Execution of Barrett

Yesterday morning, in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators, Michael Barrett, the author of the Clerkenwell Explosion, was hanged in front of Newgate. In its circumstances there was very little to distinguish this from ordinary executions. The crowd was greater, perhaps, and better behaved; still, from the peculiar atrocity of the crime for which Barrett suffered, and from the fact of its being probably the last public execution in England, it deserves more than usual notice.

http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm

The last lynching in the US (not quite the same, admittedly) took place in 1981:

"Michael Donald (July 24, 1961 � March 20, 1981) was a young African American man who was murdered by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama, in 1981. The murder is sometimes referred to as the last recorded lynching in the United States."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Donald

Here in the West the Heart of Darkness is really only a heartbeat away.

Regards,
John

[Bebsi]

Well, John, 1868 was still a while back, ya gotta admit! And a hanging is (not quite) as bloody as a beheading. Spoils one's Sunday shirt, you see.

What amazes me is that there hasn't been a Klan lynching since '81. And Alabama - you've guessed it folks - is one of the most 'active' US states where the old death penno is concerned. Thing is, most of those executed are black. Not too many Klansmen get hanged or "injected, inspected, detected or neglected, or all kinda mean, horrible, nasty ugly things..."

Oh, John, I agree. We in the west are far from being sin-free, and the heart of darkness in man has shown a clear disregard for geographical boundaries.

The horror, the horror - is all too real, frighteningly.

[BretHarte]

The Klan moved up from lynching to dragging behind pick-up trucks (although that got the death penalty).

[ellethom]

Just to let you all know, it was not always the 'Klan.'

The average citizen in America was not adverse to attend a 'good lynching'

http://withoutsanctuary.org/

My point in this post and this link is to inform. we spend a lot of time opining about the horrors of the middle east, but our own horrors were not so long ago.

I believe that before you point fingers at other countries, know your own history of filth first.

And, it was not the government nor the average citizen that put a stop to these horrors. A little woman named Ida B. Wells wrote a series of newspaper articles documenting the horrors. read about her, she is an interesting person.

[BretHarte]

Oh good ol' ellethom, for the most part of US history, not counting Texas because we are rational human beings, it's not so barbaric. You don't judge a country on the mentally disadvantaged.

[johnslat]

Dear BretHarte,

"You don't judge a country on the mentally disadvantaged."

Sweet sufferin' succotash, Bret - you realize that means almost all Republicans and a fair number of Democrats/Independents would have to be excluded from the "judging pool."

Regards,
John

[BretHarte]

No, the voting pool is me. Just me. And the rest of you poor suffering mother!@#$ers world-wide hope I'm in a good mood. How else would you, Johnslat, would rule the world?

[Geronimo]

I think that Pres. Obama should be included in the
'judging pool'.
Having approved the public execution of a Saudi himself...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3560181/Obama-cant-hide-Bin-Laden-relief.html ....
Obama is well-versed in the matter.

Geronimo