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04/05/2005: Trends...
US News Wire has this tid-bit: Global trend toward abolition of the death penalty. Amnesty International reports:"...Releasing its annual worldwide statistics on the use of capital punishment, Amnesty International called on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, currently meeting in Geneva, to condemn the death penalty as a violation of fundamental human rights. It also urged the U.S. to join the myriad countries taking steps to abolish the death penalty,...
Our report indicates that governments and citizens around the world have realized what the United States government refuses to admit-that the death penalty is an inhumane, antiquated form of punishment," said Dr. William F. Schulz, executive director, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). "Thomas Jefferson once wrote that 'laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind;' it is past time for our government to live up to this Jeffersonian ideal and let go of the brutal practices of the past."
This trend should make some percentage of my DBV co-bloggers "happy" as a philosophical matter.
Karen on 04.05.05 @ 07:20 AM CST
