This may be splitting hairs at this point, but what really is the difference between burning somebody to death and stoning them to death? Is it just a personal preference, or are you taking something else into account, because I consider them both barbaric forms of punishment.
Barbaric forms of punishment are required for crimes which are of barbaric nature. Simple jail terms, with access to 5-star food and video-game consoles will only encourage these sort of crimes. These people should be made to suffer.
Jail: A five-star retreat in the mind of bryant.coleman. Way to stay grounded in reality.
Do you need proof? Check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgujwijPwxo
http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2009/03/5-star-prison-in-austria.html
An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy:
So you came across a rehabilitation facility (as differentiated from a prison) in Austria- who has a much more progressive view of incarceration than the US to begin with, and for which no violent criminals would be housed in- and are representing all prison conditions to be like this. Is that the point you're making? Because that seems to be your point, that people who commit barbaric acts will wind up in a facility like this, so we better just brutalize them instead.