And 88% of them took place in either China, Iran, Saudi Arabia or the US.
There's some pretty scary stuff in this article:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2104688%255E1683,00.html
I used to work for a law practice in New Orleans that handled civil rights
cases. One of the clients is a guy who is legally insane who was sentenced
to death. However, since he is insane, the sentence can't be carried out.
The state mental hospital or prison or wherever it was that he stayed made
periodic attempts to medicate him against his will so that he could be
declared sane and be executed. This is illegal and the law office got calls
from him every few months about people trying to stick needles in him,
which meant that they were making another illegal attempt to medicate him
so he could be declared sane enough to execute.
I talked to that man. He said that he was the richest man in the world. He
said that he was the King of the United States. He said he wanted to marry
me. He said that I should give him a pack of cigarettes so he would marry
me and I could be the Queen of the US and get all his money. He sounded
like he believed every word. He was a nut case. Somehow, the court system
managed to find him completely freaking bonkers overall, but sane at the
time of the murders he committed.
You don't even want to know about the case I worked on where a cop who'd
been stalking his ex-girlfriend (she had evidence that she tried to file
several complaints) made an illegal arrest (as in with no grounds) of his
ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, claimed that he resisted arrest (which is
legal in the case of an illegal arrest), and that he killed the new
boyfriend as a result of his resisting arrest by beating him with a
baseball bat after he had been handcuffed. Apparently, in Louisiana that's
acceptable.
Don't kid yourself.
At 07:46 AM 6/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>according to amnesty international, 86 countries use the death penalty as of
>6/1/01.
>
>http://www.web.amnesty.org/rmp/dplibrary.nsf/ba4275cdead20d858025677e0059735
>b/46e4de9db9087e35802568810050f05f!OpenDocument
>
>--dylan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:38 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Revenge has it's place
>
>
>But doesn't that drag us down to his level?
>
>This sort of thing is for barbarians, not civilized nations. Interesting to
>note that the countries that still allow capital punishment include the US,
>Saudi Arabia, China, Iraq, and Iran.
>
>Nice company no?
>
>regards,
>larry
>
>--
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>
>--- Original Message ---
>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:44:06 -0400
>From: "Jim Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Revenge has it's place
>Message-ID: <000b01c0f274$3a30aad0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>"I think they should have drug the SOB behind a pickup to Oklahoma City and
>hung him in the square"
>
>Jim Watkins
>http://www.ngtcollege.org
>
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