Wordless Wednesday: America's Death Penalty

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August 6, 2008 at 1:51 am

(1) Stan says:

When you see it this way, it’s, uh, graphic. Actually, it’s kind of sickening when you click to the table showing just how many executions we have in this country.

August 6, 2008 at 9:18 pm

(2) Kathy says:

Thanks, Stan. I tried up update with 2006 data yesterday, but DOJ has changed how it’s reporting (or else I can’t parse the tables well).

The good news is that there was a decline in the number of executions in the US in 2006, compared to 2005.

However, I think this week’s news is bad news — spitting in the face of international law. :-/

August 7, 2008 at 7:01 am

(3) Alphast says:

I would go as far as arguing that it is a trend in US legal position. The USA consistently refuses to admit that they are bound by treaties and conventions they have signed. It is in no way new (they have done this since the XIXth century), but it is alarming that even the highest judiciary bodies in the country do not enforce such a basis of law principle. The hierarchy of legal sources is such a principle, and I find it hard to swallow that a court could judge that State law is superior to an international treaty. I don’t know on what the judges were on, but I suspect it was not fresh water…

August 8, 2008 at 12:46 am

(4) uspolitics says:

Hi, Alphast … I truly don’t understand Texas in the context of capital punishment. IIRC, about 40% all executions in this country since the 70s have taken place in Texas.