There are (civilised) nations that still hang and electrocute
people. Not mentioning any in particular of course.


Students of history are sickened when they read of
the long-ago,
gruesome practice of beheading. How brutal were those
societies that
chopped off the heads of Cicero, Sir Thomas More and
Marie Antoinette.
And how lucky we thought we were to have evolved from
such elemental
barbarity.