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A nice thought for 2008

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Stumbled across this short essay in the LA Times:Falling out of love with deathThough a majority of Americans back capital punishment, surveys find growingunease over itBy Vince BeiserJanuary 1, 2008The media are abuzz over the 40th anniversary of 1968, the year that saw somuch change in this country. But one of the most extraordinary of thosechanges has been almost completely forgotten: 1968 was the first year in thehistory of the United States that not a single prisoner was executed. Today,we're getting closer than we have in decades to matching that milestone...According to Amnesty International, 133 countries have abolished the deathpenalty. Last month, the United Nations voted for a worldwide moratorium oncapital punishment.As far back as the 1960s, almost every industrialized nation had abandonedthe death penalty as a barbaric and pointless anachronism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on January 02, 2008 (boomark / email).