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Meet David Lucas, a farmer from Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK. He has been selling gallows to African countries with deplorable human rights records for about 10 years.
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Guse
“He added some people deserved the death penalty.”
but you do not deserve to profit from that. I can’t figure out which is more twisted!!!
Alex
Is anyone as bothered as I am with mobile the multi-hanging execution system?
Loopy Loo
Let’s see how he likes hanging from one of the gallows he made.
And, yes, the mobie system bothers me, too. It’s like they’re driving around looking for any opportunity to hang people.
bakerstreet
I totally agree, Alex. Outrageously expensive. Much cheaper to buy a single system and hire a chap to sling it on the back of a truck.
[...] I found the story thru Cory’s post at BoingBoing. He in turn found it at Neatorama (yes, I know). [...]
SoloLace
DAVID MAURICE LUCAS
ELDON FARMS
ERISWELL ROAD HOLYWELL ROW
MILDENHALL
SUFFOLK
IP28 8NA
Jaceq
As he said “some people deserved the death penalty.” then
this is good market niche, every man must bring home to bacon….
[...] Remember a previous post on Neatorama on mobile gallows in Africa? Well, China took it one step further. Executions there are carried out in a more modern fashion: in a mobile execution chamber inside a "death van" that shuttles from town to town. Makers of the death vans say the vehicles and injections are a civilized alternative to the firing squad, ending the life of the condemned more quickly, clinically and safely. The switch from gunshots to injections is a sign that China "promotes human rights now," says Kang Zhongwen, who designed the Jinguan Automobile death van … [...]
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