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Interestingly, many people in England were put to death to protect the Crown or the Crown's prerogative (as in providing Henry VIII with "quickie divorces"). I can't think of a comparable use of capital punishment in America. Can you?
A brief history of capital punishment in Britain
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I could not fathom being burned at the stake with a relatively small fire, which slow roasts the condemned. Torture was often used to extract confessions as well.
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The only time we were off the rails on this stuff was in killing people who were thought guilty of witchcraft. But that had nothing to do with the government.
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