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Pro Death: America Alone

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in West Virginia's Charleston Gazette.  LINKIn the dark past, virtually every government put people to death for various criminal, political or religious reasons. For example, Italy's Papal States had an official executioner, Giovanni Bugatti, who dispatched 516 people in the 1800s. Today, however, almost every advanced democracy has abolished the barbaric death penalty. Throughout Europe and other enlightened places, killing prisoners is considered a relic of brutal times. Now, executions occur chiefly in dictatorships like China or in some Muslim lands where beheadings and stonings still are performed. The European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits executions in any EU nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).