Jemaah Gereja Nasrani yang menentang hukuman mati
sekarang punya argumen buat menuntut pemerintah
Indoneia untuk juga menghormati moratorium pelaksanaan
hukumanmati itu.
Ah, bila bila orang Nasrani di Indonesia menuntut agar
para pelaku bomb Bali TIDAK dieksekui ...
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International Herald Tribune
Lining up against the death penalty
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The UN General Assembly voted on Tuesday for a global
moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution was
nonbinding; its symbolic weight made barely a ripple
in the news ocean of the United States, where the
rights of governments to kill a killer is enshrined in
law and custom.
But for those who have been trying to move the world
away from lethal revenge as government policy this was
a milestone. The resolution failed repeatedly in the
1990s, but this time the vote was 104-54, with 29
nations abstaining. Progress has come in Europe and
Africa. Nations like Senegal, Burundi, Gabon - even
Rwanda, shamed by genocide - have decided to reject
the death penalty as official barbarism.
The United States, as usual, lined up on the other
side, with Iran, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iraq.
Together this blood brotherhood accounts for more than
90 percent of the world's executions, according to
Amnesty International. These countries' devotion to
their sovereignty is rigid, as is their perverse faith
in execution as a criminal deterrent and an instrument
of civilized justice. But out beyond Texas, Ohio,
Virginia, Myanmar, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and
Zimbabwe, there are growing numbers who expect better
of humanity.
Many are not nations or states but groups of regular
people, organizations like the Community of
Sant'Egidio, a lay Catholic movement begun in Italy
whose advocacy did much to bring about this week's
successful vote in the General Assembly. Rome
continued a tradition to mark victories against
capital punishment: It bathed the Colosseum, where
Christians once were fed to lions, in golden light.
Notes:
International Herald Tribune Copyright © 2007 The
International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
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Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo
Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf itu
dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif.
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