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Iran executed 670 in 2011
(Reuters) - Iran executed some 670 people last year, most of them for drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law and more than 20 for offences against Islam, a United Nations investigator said on Monday.
Capital punishment has been used in almost every part of the globe, but in the last few decades many countries have abolished it. Usage of capital punishment is usually broken into the four categories set out below.
- 58 (29%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.
- 98 (50%) have abolished it.
- 8 (4%) retain it for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as in time of war).
- 33 (17%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is under a moratorium.
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| Rank | Countries  | Amount  | |
|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 |  China: | 470 executions | |
| # 2 |  Iran: | 317 executions | |
| # 3 |  Saudi Arabia: | 143 executions | |
| # 4 |  Pakistan: | 135 executions | |
| # 5 |  Congo, Democratic Republic of the: | 100 executions | |
| # 6 |  Egypt: | 48 executions | |
| # 7 |  United States: | 42 executions | |
| # 8 |  Iraq: | 33 executions | |
| # 9 |  Taiwan: | 32 executions | |
| # 10 |  Vietnam: | 25 executions | |
| = 11 |  Rwanda: | 24 executions | |
| = 11 |  Sierra Leone: | 24 executions | |
| = 13 |  Afghanistan: | 15 executions | |
| = 13 |  Yemen: | 15 executions | |
| = 15 |  Japan: | 9 executions | |
| = 15 |  Libya: | 9 executions | |
| = 15 |  Jordan: | 9 executions | |
| = 18 |  Sudan: | 7 executions | |
| = 18 |  Syria: | 7 executions | |
| = 20 |  Bangladesh: | 6 executions | |
| = 20 |  Nigeria: | 6 executions | |
| = 20 |  Oman: | 6 executions | |
| = 23 |  Somalia: | 5 executions | |
| = 23 |  Cuba: | 5 executions | |
| # 25 |  Kyrgyzstan: | 4 executions | |
| # 26 |  Equatorial Guinea: | 3 executions | |
| = 27 |  Lebanon: | 2 executions | |
| = 27 |  Singapore: | 2 executions | |
| = 27 |  Zimbabwe: | 2 executions | |
| = 27 |  Bahamas, The: | 2 executions | |
| = 31 |  Thailand: | 1 executions | |
| = 31 |  Belarus: | 1 executions | |
| = 31 |  Indonesia: | 1 executions | |
| = 31 |  Kuwait: | 1 executions | |
| = 31 |  Guatemala: | 1 executions | |
| = 31 |  Botswana: | 1 executions | |
| = 31 |  Ethiopia: | 1 executions | |
| # 38 |  Uzbekistan: | 0 executions | |
| Total: | 1,514 executions |
I support the death penalty but only for the worst cases of violent crime. I also would like to see them happen much quicker after a conviction has been made. When you wait too long it's use as a deterrent diminishes.
AntwortenLöschenMany cases involve an admission by the guilty or irrefutable DNA evidence (I watch CSI!). Those convicts need to be led from the courtroom after a conviction and straight to the gallows. No last meal, no restroom break, no phone call - just death.
Make it public so the the people know what their government is up to.
What say you?
Killing is killing. When you can't create life you shouldn't create death. Try to understand and have mercy.
AntwortenLöschenMy instincts are anti-death penalty. However sometimes I read of crimes that are so sickening I can understand a need for revenge.
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http://worldwidedebateclub.multiply.com/links/item/257/BBC_News_-_Chinas_death_row_TV_hit_Interviews_Before_Execution?replies_read=5
I support it under two conditions:
AntwortenLöschen(1) The person is an ongoing danger to society if they get loose.
(2) You are certain, "beyond reasonable doubt" isn't good enough, but certain you have the right person.
Ergo, I don't care how "heinous" the original crime was, I do care that the person getting loose means more people will be raped, murdered, etc.
big anti - for the following reasons
AntwortenLöschenIn my opinion the "state" does not have the right to kill it's own people - the state is not the creator
"sick in the head" - a disease? - kill them because they have a imbalance of some type
death is too light of a sentence - better, solitary confinement and prohibiting communal dining, exercise, and religious services - no interface with other humans
United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Florence_ADX
ok,
AntwortenLöschen1. there is someone arrested in usa every 18 seconds on drug related charges, hmmm
2. we don't kill them because then the private prison industry could not make money off them
Yeah, actually that is exactly what I am saying since most serial killers could very well be found insane. Some states word the sanity laws in such a way that you almost have to be comatose when you commit the crime to be judged insane. (Andrea Yates for example was by no stretch of the imagination sane. She also wasn't an ongoing menace to society as long as she didn't have any more kids.)
AntwortenLöschenIf you can cure that insanity with drugs and/or surgery, go for it. If you can't, you have to weigh the risk of that person ever getting loose again against the moral stand of killing them. Because if they do get loose again, somebody, probably several somebodies, are going to die. The original guy who the three strike law in California was all about was one of those. He gets loose, he kills. Up until he was put to death anyway.
http://www.nndb.com/people/456/000031363/
Sometimes there isn't a good moral answer to things.
Funny how so many people who claim their politics are based on the Bible forget the bit about 'thou shalt not kill' and 'forgive your enemy.' When those people start taking notice of the book they claim to follow, they will have far more credibility.
AntwortenLöschenExecution, especially if it's quick as you suggest, does not provide the opportunity for the guilty to reflect, show remorse, perhaps even be rehabilitated and make amends, if possible.
AntwortenLöschenYes.... and?
AntwortenLöschenTotally agree with this.
AntwortenLöschenIt also doesn't hurt that the appeals process takes forever. But i'm glad it does.
Unlike Randy who wants to kill them before we sort it all out, i've seen far too many people who've been exonerated (many posthumously) and the thought of even ONE innocent person being executed is horrible and needs to be avoided at all cost.
I AM in favour of life without parole, however, which would solve one of Diio's concerns.
For those whose guilt is certain, lock them up and throw away the key. In the meantime if evidence is found even 20years later at least it won't be TOO late.
Hey.. it should be a win/win with the prison industrial complex of this country!
'Drug related' crime is a pretty big term that covers a lot of misdemeanors. Hopefully they'll never start executing people because they were caught smoking a joint...
AntwortenLöschenI agree but I do care how "heinous" the original crime was. Those persons, because of the media attention, deaths can really be an effective deterrent.
AntwortenLöschenEverybody remembers Ted Bundy's execution.
I really have no problem with a life of hard labor as a substitute for the death penalty as well. I support chain gangs, breaking rocks, little sleep and no TV ect..
The liberals in my country will never let this happen so I feel a ROBUST death penalty is the best route. No more 25 years on Death Row though.
Don't know how many saw the article I linked to, but in China usually barely a week passes between the conviction and execution.
AntwortenLöschenYIKES!
AntwortenLöschenStill... State killing is still State killing. Our time frame makes our system better in probably that sense only.
Morality of an state sponsored execution is a conundrum, which is correct: The execution of an individual or the mass execution of the likes of say Hiroshima peoples?
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