Capital Punishment Around the World (legal, drug, deaths, Minnesota)

[jy_2007]

Interesting company we keep, isn't it?

[northstar22]

Sad. Yet another way in which the US lags behind the world.

The U.S. map should be split up, though, because some states, like Michigan, Minnesota, and Alaska, don't have capital punishment.

[Aganusn]

Our ignorance and barbaric ways are catching up to us.

[Emeraldmaiden]

Originally Posted by northstar22

Sad. Yet another way in which the US lags behind the world.

The U.S. map should be split up, though, because some states, like Michigan, Minnesota, and Alaska, don't have capital punishment.

We do have a federal death penalty, so I think the map holds. A few smart states don't negate the federal legality of the death penalty.

I think the map shows America still has a lot of growing up to do.

[Tymberwulf]

I dead criminal never commits another crime. If we used punishment to actually punish most crime would not happen. Instead we get people who commit crimes and then go live in a place that has cable television, libraries, weight rooms, etc. Heck some of these prisoners live better than some of our troops do!

[northstar22]

Originally Posted by Tymberwulf

I dead criminal never commits another crime. If we used punishment to actually punish most crime would not happen. Instead we get people who commit crimes and then go live in a place that has cable television, libraries, weight rooms, etc. Heck some of these prisoners live better than some of our troops do!

If prison is such a paradise, why don't you go commit a crime so you can experience it first hand? Oh yeah, because it isn't a good place to be.

[jy_2007]

Originally Posted by Tymberwulf

I dead criminal never commits another crime. If we used punishment to actually punish most crime would not happen. Instead we get people who commit crimes and then go live in a place that has cable television, libraries, weight rooms, etc. Heck some of these prisoners live better than some of our troops do!

Right - because all of the countries on the map that have the death penalty are crime-free utopias!

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by Emeraldmaiden

A few smart states don't negate the federal legality of the death penalty.

FYI, no state "negates" the federal death penalty statutes. Federal capital cases only cover federal crimes, state capital crimes are purely for state offense.

[Book Lover 21]

Yeah, we are always being told to look up to Europe as a role model and what a paradise it is. These reminders are interrupted by reports of riots in the streets and crumbling economies.

No thanks.

[Pretzelogik]

Originally Posted by jy_2007

Interesting company we keep, isn't it?

No capital punishment in Mexico that's for sure...Mexico: 34,612 Drug War Deaths; 15,273 In 2010 are all dead before the trial begins.