Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> I just heard in the news [apropos a 13 year old kid
> that killed a classmate: "(...) the USA executes with
> the death penalty people that commited the crime while
> under 18 years old. The Human Rights Organizations
> oppose this in the USA, the world's leader in the
> application of the death penalty"
>
> So, now the USA is killing more than China or Iraq? :-)
Are the governments of China or Iraq making those numbers available
publicly?
You don't have an execution in the U.S. without the media knowing about
it and reporting it. It may be that the USA is the world's leader in
*publicized* application of the death penalty. Something about being an
open society that executes, I guess....
Julia
who read today that the guy who was convicted in Austin in a
high-profile case was given life in prison and *not* the death penalty;
he was the second of three men charged to be tried for it, the first
received the death penalty and the third will not be eligible for the
death penalty; I can find a URL about the whole thing if anyone asks
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