Now I wont defend a pedophile, I would say that this is utterly barbaric.

its really kind of disgusting how many people(and children) came out to watch a man die.

And making them wait in a dirty hole for years before being tied to an electric chair is civilized?

yes.

I'd rather not spend tax money on keeping that sort of person alive. I don't really have an issue with the result.

My only issue is whether the trial was fair or not.

I'd say let that be a lesson to any other men or women who, even for a split second, thinks of doing the same unspeakable acts.

He got what he deserved.

Would they have done this if the victim was female?

I like it, though. Immediate, severe and permanent.

This is only one step further than the UFC and other "extreme" fighting competitions, which aren't even on the fringes any more. They're completely mainstream. I was in a family restaurant last week and highlights from the UFC were showing on all the massive TV screens while my 4 year old munched on his chicken fingers.

Acceptable is only about what people accept.

Should send a statement to people who do these things

Can't help but feel the amazing contradictions in our global belief systems between this being posted at the same time as the MJ memorial gala.

I guess this guy couldn't sing and dance.

Only regret: that was too quick.

well that and the worship of celebrities forces a certain number of naive individuals to ignore the multiple testimony, the accusations from family members, and even children describing in exact detail his genitals.

MJ gets defended and put on a pedestal. A non-celebrity gets their death glorified.

f**ked up.

First, it's far from a 'Dirty hole' unless the prisoner makes it one, and even then, it's cleaned up.

Second, they are defended even when they don't WANT to be defended to the point of ridiculousness. We don't mess around with 'making sure that they get their day in court.'

FINALLY, after all the appeals, the lodging, the food, their 'final meal' and everything else, we go and sterilize the freaking needle that gets put into them and have millions of dollars spent to make sure it doesn't HURT for them to die.

You're comparing apples and oranges. This is nothing like what happens here.

You're right, its a much larger burden on the state to go through all these hoops to get to the same end result.

Not necessarily, in the first case the victim was in identified him incorrectly with regard to a few key markings (circumcision)

The story mentions that the barber not only raped the boy, but murdered and dismembered him; the headline does not mention this.
Did I miss the memo where rape became worse and more mention-worthy than murder?

i can't believe how many of you don't see a problem with this.

He had a trial in his country, however "fair" that may be. He confessed to the crimes during the trial. He received a standard punishment for his crimes according to the laws of his land.

I think public execution CAN be a good preventative, unless the society is so far gone that it would only be titillated by such a public death. Which is one "reason" why it isn't done in America.

Many of us (who may or may not have been victims of this sort of crime) think the "extreme" and public death of this sort of criminal sends a powerful message, one we WOULD like to send to ALL child abusers in ALL countries of the world.

Just because it isn't "civilized" doesn't mean it isn't effective!

What problem do you see with this?