China, Iran, Vietnam totally pwn the US

[KrazyHorse]

*Points and laughs at Dino

[DinoDoc]

It's not sports betting without odds and bookies. And damn you for DanSing me.

[KrazyHorse]

Haha.

I danSed you.

[KrazyHorse]

I think you've completely misconstrued the "point" of this thread, DD.

Wouldn't be the first time...

[DinoDoc]

Might not even be the last.

[kronic]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Basically, the EU outlawed and Latin America did exactly what the Vatican told it to do but everyone else still understands the deterence value of capital punishment.

According to Amnesty, 3/5 of all countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes in law or in practice (including all countries of the "western world" with the execption of one ):

• 84 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes
• 12 countries have abolished the death penalty for all but exceptional crimes such as wartime crimes
• 24 countries can be considered abolitionist in practice: they retain the death penalty in law but have not carried out any executions for the past 10 years or more and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions
  
  making a total of 120 countries which have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
  
• 76 other countries and territories retain and use the death penalty, but the number of countries which actually execute prisoners in any one year is much smaller.

source
Lists of abolitionist and retentionist countries

You can find a nice map here . But it's in German.

green = death penalty abolished
yellow = death penalty abolished for ordinary crimes
orange = death penalty abolished in practice
red = death penalty not abolished

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Oerdin
... the deterence value of capital punishment.

Not in the US. IF CP is to be a deterent, CP must be swift and certain. It is neither in your country.

[KrazyHorse]

Yeah. 1 in 300? Come on. The mortality rate in the US prison system is much more to be feared than is the death penalty...

[DeathByTheSword]

it is 'funny' to see that the most powerfull and rich country in the world and the weakest and poorest countries do have something in common.

[Ecthy]

yellow shows states that abolished capital punishment for peace times. if the EU goes to war Latvia will have the death penalty option

[DeathByTheSword]

arent they a member of the EU already?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Oerdin
everyone else still understands the deterence value of capital punishment.

You also have the highest murder rate in the Western world by a wide margin - that deterrent value must be really working for you

[DanS]

/me ponders at what point Amnesty International lost the script

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
you should rather look at the rate of executions, the number of executed related to the country's population.

China: 0%

USA: 100%

You mean, everything we hear from the US and every poster claiming he is from US of A is a fake,
because the whole population of the United states was already executed?

[Kidlicious]

If those 59 people didn't love America they should have just moved to China!