Lawmaker Defends Racist Mississippi Senator: Public Hangings 'Would Deter a Lot of Crimes'

[DonViejo]

By DAVID BADASH NOVEMBER 26, 20182:37 PM

A Republican state senator in Mississippi on Monday stepped up to support embattled U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is running to keep her appointed seat in a special election runoff Tuesday.
Calling public hangings a "style" of execution, Senator Charles Younger told voters that, "frankly, if it was back again I think it would deter a lot of crimes," Mississippi Today reports.

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"It wasn’t 'lynching,'" Younger told Hyde-Smith's supporters at a rally, pushing back against charges the Mississippi Republican Senator is racist, "it was a public hanging where it had to pass through the courts and it wasn’t a color or a race issue. It was just a means of punishment."

Younger then tried to turn the table against Democrats. He admitted Hyde-Smith "said something out of jest that wasn’t the most politically correct thing to say but, you know, I bet you nine out of 10 Democrats would vote to execute the young man that killed the nine black people in the church in South Carolina — the African Americans that were killed in South Carolina," Younger told Mississippi Today. "I bet you nine out of 10 Democrats would vote to have him executed any kind of way."

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https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/11/lawmaker-defends-trump-supporting-racist-mississippi-senator-public-hangings-would-deter-a-lot-of-crimes/

[DBoon]

1. from 1984

'They do get so noisy,' she said. 'They're disappointed because they couldn't go to see the hanging, that's what it is. I'm too busy to take them. and Tom won't be back from work in time.'

'Why can't we go and see the hanging?' roared the boy in his huge voice.

'Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!' chanted the little girl, still capering round.

Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamoured to be taken to see it. He took his leave of Mrs Parsons and made for the door.

Orwell emphasized the resurgence of public hanging as a sign that the society of 1984 had descended into unspeakable barbarism.

Republicans are OK with unspeakable barbarism. It is what they stand for.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. sounds reasonable...

Let's start with you,Senator.

[ProudLib72]

3. From 2016

Punishment for theft in Saudi Arabia, our closest ally.

When I lived in Saudi, you did not want to go into Dammam on the hand chopping days because the mutawa (religious police) would round up everyone (at gun point) and herd them to the square to watch the hand chopping.

Warning, this is a real hand chopping video. It's not fake news.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5fdwh0

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. As much as I HATE, LOATHE and DESPISE the pResident with no clothes...

I STILL would not advocate for a public hanging. Life in prison for his crimes would be enough for me.