What does the US have in common with China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and even Sudan? You'd think we'd like to think of ourselves as far off from some of these countries as one can get. But, in reality, perhaps we should brand ourselves the now-defunct phrase "axis of evil." Geez, we must be bad, you're thinking. Indeed we are. Why? Because we join these aforementioned nations in one of the few to allow execution, i.e. legal murder by government aka capital punishment.
With China, four other nations -- Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United States -- accounted for 93 percent of the 2,390 executions, according to the group's report "Death Sentences and Executions in 2008."
A disproportionate number of death sentences were handed down to the poor and minorities in Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Hmmm... maybe we should attack ourselves and start digging for these graves. Urgh Republicans. Some day they'll understand that a life in the womb is the same life they like to torture and kill a couple decades later.
Source found here.
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