I dont't know, you tell me! But in the big picture, they are of so
little use to society and the economy.
Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment whereby a
group throws stones at a person until they die. No individual among
the group can be identified as the one who kills the subject. This is
in contrast to the case of a judicial executioner. Slower than other
forms of execution, stoning within the context of contemporary
Western culture is considered a form of execution by torture.
Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is
most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob
in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a group.
It is an extreme form of informal group social control such as
charivari, skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering,
but with a drift toward the public spectacle.[1][2] Lynchings have
been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have
often been a means for a dominant group to suppress challengers.
However, it has also resulted from long-held prejudices and practices
of discrimination that have conditioned societies to accept this type
of violence as normal practices of popular justice.
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a statutory penalty
in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was
first recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216?1272).
Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by
horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to
the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and
quartered (chopped into four pieces). Their remains were often
displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London
Bridge. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high
treason were instead burned at the stake.
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