Draconian system must end

Draconian system must end

From the outside looking in on one of our more barbarian practices:

"Since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States in 1976, nearly 1000 prisoners have been executed, including a 74-year-old so stricken by dementia that he did not know who he was, and a man with the mental age of seven. The US is up there with China, the Congo, Iran and Saudi Arabia in the global league table of executions, despite scant evidence that capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime."

Yeah, but which Congo?

This is mainstream stuff in most of the world...

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