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11-04-2016 4:17 PM - edited 11-04-2016 4:18 PM
There is far more to democracy than the simple following of the wishes of the majority - one of the main tenets of democracy is the rule of law and equal rights before the law. As such a group of people calling for the execution of an individual without the due process of law would not be a democratic decision.
Whether or not a democratic decision would be open to calls for that decision to be overturned brings into play yet another of the ingredients of a democracy - the right to free speech, the right to criticise decisions made and those who made them.