China executes more people per week than the U.S. executes in a year. It appears no one is executed in Europe, Russia or South America. They must be so civilized.
Amnesty International compiles annual reports on the number of executions worldwide but China has been absent from its list since 2009 due to difficulties obtaining precise figures. However, the Dui Hua Foundation, a US-based rights group, has released an insight into something Beijing considers a state secret, placing the number of executions in 2013 at 2,400. China executes more people every year than the rest of the world combined and 2013’s number marks a 20 percent increase on 2012.
After China, the Middle East is the globe’s premier hotspot for the death penalty. Three countries – Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, accounted for 95 percent of the region’s 638 executions last year. Iran put the most people to death – 369. Iraq followed with 169 while Saudi Arabia executed 79. The United States comes fifth overall, executing 39 people in 2013.
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Ya know, its really funny about Amnesty International.
They NEVER go after the really bad guys with their “reports” and “analysis”.
Why is that?
Heinous crimes / murder – if there’s DNA or eye witness I say let them swing, in a timely manner. Don’t waste taxes incarcerating them, or giving them 20 year appeals process. Save our tax dollars.
Dutchman…like you I felt the same way . However the number of folks released from death row due to DNA evidence has made me change my view . Now a confessed killer ….that’s a different case .
When I think of the inaccuracy of an eye witness I think of the case of Ronald Cotton of Charlotte,N.C. He was twice convicted based on testimony the victim..who was absolutely sure he did it. However DNA evidence eventually proved otherwise and the striking resemblance of Ronald and the actual person who committed the rapes is pretty remarkable .
@BUCKHED – Likewise, for the longest time I was staunchly in favor of it….but ultimately our current system is so hideously flawed that I can’t leave it up to our justice system.
Ignoring government corruption, there have been too many cases overturned due to new evidence, at this point I can’t support the death penalty.
Even confessions are suspect, as it could be someone just trying to get attention or even someone scared by the police/lawyers into signing away their life.
Justice System? Ha! We have a “just in case your guilty” system. John
Another vote that our just-us system does not work well enough to support judicial executions. I also don’t want to be associated with the other countries that execute people.
I don’t give a shit what those slanty eyed bastards or the camel fuckers do…. Not my business.
I care what we do.
Guilty? Hang his ass. Publicly. Have a gallows built in a public park downtown. Hangings every other weekend, weather permitting. Shit, sell tickets if you want…
The government fucks up everything it touches, yet we’re supposed to believe that the administration of justice is the exception? Really?
Prosecutorial abuse is rife in the Land of the Free. The sociopaths with law degrees don’t give a rat’s ass about the truth. They want convictions, which they use to obtain political power.
That innocent people end up frying in the electric chair does not faze them for a moment. When all you care about is #1, justice is impossible.
“The government fucks up everything it touches, yet we’re supposed to believe that the administration of justice is the exception? ” — Steve
As it was originally intended, before it was perverted – like everything else dealing with our 3 branches of Government – it worked pretty well.
If I were king, I would: Jettison the activist judges, get SCOTUS back on track and doing their job, forbid anyone connected with the DA’s office from holding an elected position, stop allowing attorneys to game the juries, institute tort reform, and most importantly, appoint something like the old Roman Consul – a pair of guys elected for one year, totally separate from the judicial process to oversee it, each with veto powers over the other… and NO MORE JUDGES FOR LIFE!
I’m not opposed to capital punishment. If you don’t take out the trash once in awhile, you will drown in it.
Amnesty International is a NGO formed by a London lawyer in 1961. It brags about not accepting donations from governments to anyone who will listen.
And then goes ahead and receives grants from the UK Department for International Development, the European Commission, and the United States State Department, and many other funding sources that are blindingly obviously governmental in nature.
BREAKING ITS OWN RULES: AMNESTY’S RESEARCHER BIAS AND GOV’T FUNDING
What is the point in discussing this? The Russians and Europeans execute people, they just do it on the down low. Executions are a political fact of life.
I’m fine with executing people based upon incontrovertible evidence. That would exclude confessions and eye witness testimony, though. People confess to things they didn’t do fairly often.
Hell, now you don’t even have to BE guilty of anything to have your property confiscated by the gestapo. Thieving police departments are doing it on a local basis, the state is confiscating homes due to stupid tax arrears, and now the IRS is seizing accounts just based on “suspect behavior”.
With all that in play, I’m not confident of the state dispensing the “ultimate” penalty.