[Vision2020] Civilized Nations Abolish the Death Penalty

[Tony]

NICK, if you find your own country so uncivilized, why the hell don't you 
give patriotic Americans a break and immigrate?  Your lack of gratitude is 
loathsome.  What a carping old subversive you have degenerated into.

-Tony
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From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Civilized Nations Abolish the Death Penalty


> World Day Against the Death Penalty Marked Throughout Europe
>
> At a joint press conference held by the European Commission (EC) and the 
> Council of Europe, Vice-President Franco Frattini of the EC stated that 
> "the administration of State killing via the judicial system serves no 
> useful purpose in preventing crime but can have a brutalising effect on 
> societies that inflict it".
>
> There are at present 128 countries that are abolitionist in law and 
> practice. Over 40 countries have abolished the death penalty for all 
> crimes since 1990. They include countries in Africa (recent examples 
> include Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire), the Americas (Canada, Paraguay, Mexico), 
> Asia and the Pacific (Philippines, Bhutan, Samoa) and Europe and Central 
> Asia (Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, 
> Turkmenistan). In 2005, countries having abolished death penalty were 86, 
> while in 1977, only 16 countries were abolitionist.
>
> When will the U. S. join the ranks of civilized nations by not only 
> abolishing the death penalty but following international law?
>
> Nick Gier
>
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