Another sign we really are not in the 21st Century
Capital punishement is still widely used throughout the world today as we speak. I cannot understand how this is possible in a world that has seen so much and pretends to be “evolved” or “civilized”.
I know this is an old subject and has been written about so many times that it’s really not news anymore, but the problem is that it’s still here with us, happening every day and worst of all, very near from us for those who live in North America.
Not only has it been proved again and again that death penalty does not reduce the number of crimes (as if a murderer is going to consult the laws to see what punishment he will get if he commits a given type of murder), and the number of daily murders in the US is the best proof of all, but also state sanctioned killing is murder pure and simple.
It means that we, as a rational (or supposedly so) institution are reproducing what are, for the most part at least, either the result of irrational or sick behavior, or the result of an action undertaken for a certain profit such as monetary gain.
As far as I’m concerned, any judge who sentences someone to die should automatically himself be the subject of his own sentence. In other words, he should be executed together with the condemned.
In Global Executions Doubled in 2008, U.S. #4 in State Killing. we learn that the country that executes the most is China with the US running #4 in the world.
How can one not be really worried about this reality?
China is possibly the superpower that is going to replace the US and the US is the current superpower.
So the 2 most powerful countries on this planet are executing people as is this was normal in a civilized society.
In Canada, there’s a company whose catchphrase is “The future is friendly”.
Really????
- STOP "LIVE ANIMAL SKINNING IN CHINA"
- End persecution and communism in china
- Help Stop the Killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China
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