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Originally Posted by fotze
Its weird to see the countries that do have it still:
Executions are known to have been carried out in the following countries in 2007 [6]:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, China, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, USA, Vietnam, Yemen.
Japan and the US are really the two oddball nations, the rest really aren't all that shocking to see. |
It's quite disingenious to lump the US and Japan in the same group as North Korea and Sudan.
They execute for very different reasons ... just having one list ignores blatent differences between them.
It seems to reason to me that ultimately if you could believe there is a chance that a murderer could re-offend ... then by definition being anti capital punishment means you are more focused on the guilty than the victims, which to mean is a huge reason why crime is as significant as it is.