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America's Death Penalty - The View From Abroad

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Oxford Analytica has, "Death of capital punishment?"The United States and Japan are the only industrialised democracies where the death penalty is still enforced.  Governments in Poland and Peru have floated the idea of reintroducing the death penalty for certain crimes. Yet the global trend seems to be moving away from capital punishment. International organisations such as the EU have hardened in their opposition: The death penalty is incompatible with membership of the EU and other international bodies, which acts as a strong deterrent to reintroducing the practice. EU pressure was instrumental in convincing Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to veto recent legislation that would have facilitated the death penalty being enforced after a long moratorium; Brussels would likely speak up if other countries made such moves...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).