Yeah... the bloodthirsty military

Which hasn't used the death penalty in almost fifty years...

-- WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Monday approved the first execution by the military since 1961, upholding the death penalty of an Army private convicted of a series of rapes and murders more than two decades ago.

Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in the military in 1996, no one has been executed since President Ronald Reagan reinstated capital punishment in 1984 for military crimes.

And guess what... that's further back than Canada's last execution...

On December 11, 1962, Arthur Lucas and Robert Turpin were hanged at the Don Jail in Toronto.

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...when they set off those bombs.

Lawyer Mahendradatta said during executions in Indonesia sometimes condemned prisoners do not die immediately and must be shot a second time, causing them to feel pain.

"We find that yes; of course, we admit that Mr. Amrozi and his friends was sentenced to death, but not torture," he said. "According to the constitution of the Republic of Indonesia - the right not to be tortured is something like a strong right."

"We seek the execution without pain."

Unlike, of course, the hundreds of people they killed and maimed.

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