ZING! Well done.The Catholic Church, at least, is consistent in its pro-life stance: it is against the death penalty, euthanasia, and abortion. And, I might add, unnecessary wars.
I’ve posted this here before, but we are among the few nations in the world who still execute criminals at all, let alone at this rate. 53% of nations have banned it outright, including 48 of 49 European countries (Belarus is the exception).26% technically retain it, but haven’t used it in ten years, don’t carry them out, or have a moratoriumOnly 18% maintain it in law and practice.The top ten nations executing in 2013 are, in descending order of number of executions (not corrected for population:1. China (thousands)2. Iran (369)3. Iraq (169)4. Saudi Arabia (79)5. North Korea (70)6. USA (39)7. Somalia (34)8. Sudan (21)9. Yemen (13)10. Japan (8)
If you look at the stats from 2007-2013, the US moves up to fifth place.
With one exception, this is not the company I want the USA to keep. Says a lot, doesn’t it?
As long as they know they’re safe from it, even if they kill someone. It’s still mostly reserved for poor and minorities. Anyway, what happened to the guillotine? Too bloody?
Firing squad or hanging were the only two methods deemed not “cruel and unusual punishment” by the folks who wrote the Constitution. We need to either go back to those two methods or quit the practice, which makes more sense, actually.
What’s cruel and unusual about killing a few hundred thousand bystanders so you can hang Saddam Hussein?
Motivemagus about 9 years ago
ZING! Well done.The Catholic Church, at least, is consistent in its pro-life stance: it is against the death penalty, euthanasia, and abortion. And, I might add, unnecessary wars.
I’ve posted this here before, but we are among the few nations in the world who still execute criminals at all, let alone at this rate. 53% of nations have banned it outright, including 48 of 49 European countries (Belarus is the exception).26% technically retain it, but haven’t used it in ten years, don’t carry them out, or have a moratoriumOnly 18% maintain it in law and practice.The top ten nations executing in 2013 are, in descending order of number of executions (not corrected for population:1. China (thousands)2. Iran (369)3. Iraq (169)4. Saudi Arabia (79)5. North Korea (70)6. USA (39)7. Somalia (34)8. Sudan (21)9. Yemen (13)10. Japan (8)
If you look at the stats from 2007-2013, the US moves up to fifth place.
With one exception, this is not the company I want the USA to keep. Says a lot, doesn’t it?
Sources:http://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2014/mar/27/death-penalty-statistics-2013-by-countryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_country
kaffekup about 9 years ago
As long as they know they’re safe from it, even if they kill someone. It’s still mostly reserved for poor and minorities. Anyway, what happened to the guillotine? Too bloody?
louieglutz about 9 years ago
funny, everybody seems to be ignoring the last panel…
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Firing squad or hanging were the only two methods deemed not “cruel and unusual punishment” by the folks who wrote the Constitution. We need to either go back to those two methods or quit the practice, which makes more sense, actually.
What’s cruel and unusual about killing a few hundred thousand bystanders so you can hang Saddam Hussein?
We are a civilized society, right?