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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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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America is NOT a Rogue State
- From Josh Marquis
By Joshua Marquis - District Attorney, Media Commentator
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I have wished that the death penalty could be implemented in heinous multiple murder cases. After experience in the justice system from the left side of the drug war I no longer believe in the death penalty, the system is corrupt and biased. We know that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks yet the Bush administration attacked Iraq and many a war profiteer around the administration made millions and billions. They never sought out the accused 9/11 CIA operative Osama Bin Laden. Add torture and illegal spying to obvious Bush Administration crimes. Also we have never had a proper investigation of the administration's complacency involving the 9/11 attacks. If you believe that as a district attorney that you have the power , right and a just method to seek the death penalty in first degree murder cases; it is your duty to bring murder, torture and conspiracy charges against the Bush administration defendants. There is so much publicly available evidence that Iraqi people and US soldiers died so people around Bush could profit from war. It is your duty and the duty of every district attorney in the US to bring war crimes charges against Bush and others in his administration. Would you ask the death penalty when you prosecute Bush and company? If not the US undeniably remains rouge state and therefore you cannot honestly seek the death penalty in and murder case.
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March 30, 2009 10:43AM
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