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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 07 January 2013 03:46:15PM 1 point [-]

There's a humorous, satirical news story produced by The Onion, where the US Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is "totally badass". And it is, even though badass-ness is not a criteria to decide the death penalty's legality.

As badass as shooting a fish in a barrel. Which is to say, no, not really.

Comment author: khafra 10 January 2013 01:29:55PM 6 points [-]

Not "badass" in the sense of jumping a motorcycle into a helicopter, bailing at the last moment, and landing safely in a rooftop swimming pool. But badass in the sense of atavistic, ceremonial, conducive to a kind of gravitas. I'm pretty sure there are more executions in movies than wasting-away-for-70-years-in-prison.