04-26-2016, 02:13 AM
JoeH wrote:
Within his rights to summarily execute him, yes. But that is an option that even 50 years ago was not accepted as a normal action. Quite likely he would have been executed after a trial anyways, it was the summary style of execution that brought the infamy.
Indeed but there was, no doubt, a heavy cultural force working there..maybe he knew in that moment that this man had just murdered a man's entire Family? Family everywhere is important, of course..but the power of Family in these Asian cultures is larger than life in many ways?
That picture always made me shudder.