What do these countries have in common?

[Ted_in_Charlott]

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, China, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Korea (North), Kuwait, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, USA, Viet Nam, Yemen.

Give up?

Actually they carried out the death penalty in 2007

amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/death-sentences-and-executions-in-2007

What are we doing in that group of countries?

Here is a list of countries that have outlawed the death penalty for everything:

amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/countries-abolitionist-for-all-crimes

So, which group of countries is more “civilized”?

 

[Ted_in_Charlott]

Death Penalty and Race

RACE OF HOMICIDE VICTIMS IN CASES RESULTING IN A DEATH SENTENCE SINCE 1976

In a 1990 report, the non-partisan U.S. General Accounting Office found “a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty.” The study concluded that a defendant was several times more likely to be sentenced to death if the murder victim was white. This has been confirmed by the findings of many other studies that, holding all other factors constant, the single most reliable predictor of whether someone will be sentenced to death is the race of the victim.

amnestyusa.org/death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-race/page.do?id=1101091&n1=3&n2=28&n3=99

 

[Ted_in_Charlott]

Death Penalty and Innocence

Since 1973, more than 125 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003 alone, 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row.

North Carolina: Jonathon Hoffman, exonerated in 2007
Convicted and sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of a jewelry store owner. During Hoffman’s first trial, the state’s key witness, Johnell Porter, made undisclosed deals with the prosecutors for testifying against his cousin. Porter has since recanted his testimony, stating that he lied in order to get back at his cousin for stealing money from him.

amnestyusa.org/death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-innocence/page.do?id=1101086&n1=3&n2=28&n3=99

 

[Robert_Bay]

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