Friday 7 August 2009

King Coolman

De strigis vero quae non sunt, nulla amplius quaestio fiat.
(As for witches, they really do not exist; no further investigations or trials are to be held)

- King Coloman of Hungary, 1095-1116

Citation Needed

I just found an artivcle on swedish wikipedia about execution by firing squad. It states that in China this is a common execution method for economical reason. Apart from the fact that bullets are cheap, it also allows for harvesting the organs and selling them to rich people, both in China and the west... A bit too pragmatic, perhaps?