Capital punishment is a sign of failure.<\/p>\n
Failure is a part of learning and improvement, but if you continue to fail in the same endeavour, there is a problem indicating that the system needs to change.\u00a0 So, capital punishment should have long been expunged from a system that is “civilised”, “advanced”, “modern”,\u00a0 “space age”, “rich”, “successful” or other similar descriptions of our world.\u00a0 But it is still rife.<\/p>\n
You might offer a bit of leniency to societies which are resource poor, where food is scare and technology scarcer, but you should be disgusted if a leading society is behaving in a primitive way.<\/p>\n
Is your society on this ranking of executions?<\/p>\n
It is sad that such rich nations are on this list.\u00a0 Countries like China, US, Saudi Arabia, Japan need to get themselves off this list now.\u00a0 System change is necessary.<\/p>\n
China <\/strong>– 1000+<\/p>\n Iran <\/strong>– 369+<\/p>\n Iraq<\/strong> – 169+<\/p>\n Saudi Arabia<\/strong> – 79+<\/p>\n United States<\/strong> – 39<\/p>\n Somalia<\/strong> – 34+<\/p>\n Sudan<\/strong> – 21+<\/p>\n Yemen<\/strong> – 13+<\/p>\n Japan<\/strong> – 8<\/p>\n Vietnam<\/strong> – 7<\/p>\n Taiwan<\/strong> – 6<\/p>\n Indonesia<\/strong> – 5<\/p>\n Kuwait<\/strong> – 5<\/p>\n South Sudan<\/strong> – 4+<\/p>\n Nigeria<\/strong> – 4<\/p>\n Palestinian Authority <\/strong>(Gaza) – 3+<\/p>\n Afghanistan <\/strong>– 2<\/p>\n Bangladesh<\/strong> – 2<\/p>\n Malaysia<\/strong> – 2<\/p>\n Botswana<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n India<\/strong> – 1<\/p>\n Other countries may have performed executions but a lack of information meant that Amnesty were unable to verify reports.<\/p>\n Source: Amnesty International<\/em><\/p>\n BBC: Rise in number of global executions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Capital punishment is a sign of failure. Failure is a part of learning and improvement, but if you continue to fail in the same endeavour, there is a problem indicating that the system needs to change.\u00a0 So, capital punishment should have long been expunged from a system that is “civilised”, “advanced”, “modern”,\u00a0 “space age”, “rich”, …
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