The terrible news that ISIS burned a man alive is getting tons of attention and condemnation by everyone. No doubt about, this is a horrible, barbaric event. However, we must not forget this type of brutal executions were practiced a lot still in the early 1900s in the USA… check this two powerful essays:
by Chauncey deVega:
by Bill Moyers (caution: it has an actual pic of a lynching):
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/fiery-cage-and-lynching-tree-brutalitys-never-far-away
And despite of all these actual cases, we haven’t learnt anything and we celebrate and honor violence everywhere: with movies, computer games, hunting, books, religion, development,… No wonder humankind is in such terrible state.