HowStuffWorks, a website explaining how things work, seems to be defending the execution of Saddam Hussein by claiming that

Many people might be surprised to learn that hanging, when carried out with modern techniques, can be one of the quickest and most painless ways to be executed.

Describing how the spine is broken so the person loses [...]

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January 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

An Eastern Orthodox Christian recently asked me that this means. It’s the inscription on the scroll that is tacked to the top of every crucifix. A crucifix, as against a simple cross, carries a representation of the body of the Lord, the Corpus.
It is the Latin translation of ‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’. [...]