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international: a dying punishment

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Two stories indicate why, despite a slight rise in executions domestically, the death penalty is slowing dying.  In Kenya this new AP article, headlined “Kenyan leader reduces all death sentences to life,” details the commutation of all death sentences in that country.  In China, that country’s highest court”has called for the death penalty to be used less often and for only the most serious criminal cases, state media reported.” he court will revise legislation to cut down the number of death sentences and will stress commuting sentences to life in prison for some criminals who show good behavior, a senior director in charge at the court told the Legal Daily newspaper.”A policy of strictly controlling and being cautious to use the death penalty … requires judicial departments to use as few death penalties as possible, meaning you don’t kill those who you don’t have to kill,” the official was quoted as saying in an interview, a partial transcript of which was published on the Legal Daily Web site...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).