Death penalty.

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Originally Posted by finnbow

If politicians didn't wear their willingness/desire to execute people as a merit badge for their "toughness on crime" (or accuse people who have moral qualms about it as soft on crime), I might be more willing to accept it. I think peoples' enthusiasm for the death penalty will ultimately fade, as it has in all other civilized countries (except Japan to a small degree).



The following 21 countries are believed by Amnesty International to have carried out executions in 2012: Afghanistan (14), Bangladesh (1), Belarus (3+), China (2000+), Gambia (9), India (1), Iran (314+), Iraq (129+), Japan (7), North Korea (6+), Pakistan (1), Palestine (6), Republic of China (6), Saudi Arabia (79+), Somalia (6+), South Sudan (5+), Sudan (19+), UAE (1), USA (43), Yemen (28+).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_..._population.29

Thanks, Finn.
That puts a lot of perspective on the issue.

Look at the company we keep on this issue! 😟