The Death Penalty In 2011

Amnesty International has released its annual survey of capital punishment worldwide. Although I don't like to preach here this is an issue I have always felt strongly about. The number 5 position of the US on this list is disappointing.



The United States stayed in its dubiously bad place on this fundamental human rights issue. The U.S. was the only country in the Western hemisphere or the G8 to kill its prisoners, and was responsible for the fifth most known executions in the world, behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. (As an independent country, Texas would have ranked 7th, between North Korea and Somalia, with its 13 executions in 2011.)
  
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