At 08:59 AM 5/29/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>I am not so sure that the UN doesn�t condemn the death penalty. Several
>documents on the UN website show that the UN is actively trying to persuade
>countries to abolish the death penalty; I think that is a clear sign that
>the UN *does* condemn it.
Yes, but I make a distinction between something being a "human right" and
simply being something that States shouldn't do. I think the United
States should abolish the death penalty. I don't think, however, that the
United States is abusing human rights by executing Timothy McVeigh.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of institutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
