The death penalty has provoked heated discussion since biblical times, and today the debate remains as controversial as ever. Is such a sentence ever justified? Capital punishment is an intensely emotional topic for everyone involved because it sits at the intersection of life, death and the very definition of the word 'justice.'
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The U.S. in in Bad Company
Amnesty Intl. dead wrong
This is very poor argument by Amnesty Intl., as is the case with all of their anti death penalty efforts.
AI's logic is this.
The death penalty and the US must be bad, because a bunch of bad countries use the death penalty.
What nonsense.
Simply because the US shares a public policy with"bad" countries doesn't make either the US or that policy "bad".
For example, some really bad countries do not have the death penalty. So, why doesn't AI say all of those countries and that public policy position is bad? Guess.
In their anti death penalty positions, AI shows a particular lack of reason.
- dudleysharp
June 15, 2009 9:15AM
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