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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe World of the Death Penalty
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Red=applied
Brown=on moratorium and not applied for 10+ years
Green=only applicable for exceptional crimes
Teal=banned.
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The World of the Death Penalty (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Aug 2014
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morningfog
(18,115 posts)1. Recommend. This is what changes the US death penalty into "unusual."
Brigid
(17,621 posts)2. Check out the other countries in red.
We're in great company, aren't we?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)7. China and Islamic countries...
kind of telling.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. But when WE kill people, we do it HUMANELY...
--imm
Warpy
(111,339 posts)4. I wish they'd shown non DP states in teal. We're out there
and we don't murder our citizens.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)5. If you commit a Federal crime in a non-DP state,
you are still eligible for the death penalty. If there was no Federal DP I would agree with you.
Logical
(22,457 posts)6. SO MANY members of the DU love the DP. Disgusting. n-t