In earlier eras, the punishment in these executions was often viewed as the pain and suffering you went through. The more modern ero look at the punishment in the execution as being the deprivation of any more life. If that's the case, why not just cut your head off? Why do we have to go through all the rigamarole? Oh, yes, because we need to send a message to the crowd. So strangle that guy, but don't tell anybody. Fascinating. But why listen to me when we can have an expert like richard evans explain it to us? He quotes the law code that frederick is working on which enunciates this new rational