Matt Wiser
April 8th 04, 02:55 PM
(~ LITTLE HITLER ~) wrote:
>Amnesty International: U.S. Joins China and
>Iran as Top Death Penalty
>Users
>
So what? At least the death penalty is on the books because either a State
Legislature (or in California's case, the people) voted to have a death penalty,
as did Congress. And we don't execute people on a whim like a certain dictator
now in the slammer did, or certain countries ruled either by communists,
secular dictators, or religious authorties, for acts that in the West would
have earned a jail term, if the act was criminal in the West in the first
place.
>Geneva-AP -- The human rights group Amnesty
>International is appealing
>to world leaders to end the use of the death
>penalty.
>
>In its annual survey, Amnesty International
>reports there were over
>eleven-hundred executions conducted in 2003,
>a decrease from the
>previous year.
>
>China, Iran and the United States topped the
>list of nations that use
>the death penalty. The report says most of the
>world's executions are
>actually carried out by a very small number
>of nations.
>
>A spokeswoman says Amnesty International is
>calling on the U-N's Human
>Rights Commission to pass a resolution again
>this year seeking a
>moratorium on executions.
>
>Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights
>reserved.
>
>http://www.wtvo.com/Global/story.asp?S=1765234
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>Amnesty International: U.S. Joins China and
>Iran as Top Death Penalty
>Users
>
So what? At least the death penalty is on the books because either a State
Legislature (or in California's case, the people) voted to have a death penalty,
as did Congress. And we don't execute people on a whim like a certain dictator
now in the slammer did, or certain countries ruled either by communists,
secular dictators, or religious authorties, for acts that in the West would
have earned a jail term, if the act was criminal in the West in the first
place.
>Geneva-AP -- The human rights group Amnesty
>International is appealing
>to world leaders to end the use of the death
>penalty.
>
>In its annual survey, Amnesty International
>reports there were over
>eleven-hundred executions conducted in 2003,
>a decrease from the
>previous year.
>
>China, Iran and the United States topped the
>list of nations that use
>the death penalty. The report says most of the
>world's executions are
>actually carried out by a very small number
>of nations.
>
>A spokeswoman says Amnesty International is
>calling on the U-N's Human
>Rights Commission to pass a resolution again
>this year seeking a
>moratorium on executions.
>
>Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights
>reserved.
>
>http://www.wtvo.com/Global/story.asp?S=1765234
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