Valley Oak
04-21-2015, 10:08 AM
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The death penalty disproportionately executes minorities and the poor. Please oppose the death penalty.
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The U.S. Is Still Executing People, But the Anti-Death Penalty Movement Is Growing
(https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-still-executing-people-anti-death-penalty-movement-growing?akid=13023.1933828.xopb32&rd=1&src=newsletter1035128&t=15)
Opposition to the death penalty in the U.S. is stronger now than at any point since the courts re-legalized it in 1976.
By Mario Marazziti (https://www.alternet.org/authors/mario-marazziti) / Seven Stories Press, April 17, 2015
The following is an excerpt from Mario Marazitti's new book, 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609805674?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1609805674&linkCode=xm2&tag=alternorg08-20) (Seven Stories Press (https://www.sevenstories.com/), 2015). Reprinted with permission.
All over the globe—in some countries more than others, to be sure—people are realizing that the state-sponsored killing of people is not worthy of our common humanity.
When the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe took place in 1975—an early sign of the easing of the Cold War and the strengthening of international cooperation—just 16 countries had abolished the death penalty or committed to doing so.
By the time the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, there were 19 more. The most prominent example was France, where in 1981 François Mitterand and Robert Badinter, just elected president and minister of justice respectively, took the country directly from the use of the guillotine to a radical rejection of death as punishment, abolishing it in all cases.
The next year alone—1990—nine more countries abolished the death penalty. By 2000, 29 more countries had done so, including Albania, the states of the former Yugoslavia, and the Baltic republics.
Most recently (I write in late 2014), Latvia and Poland have ratified a binding international Covenant. One hundred and five of the 192 countries represented at the United Nations have abolished the death penalty by law, and another 43 have abolished it in practice—either through public moratoria or by the de facto moratorium that can be counted when a country declines to practice capital punishment for a decade or longer.
Finish article here (https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-still-executing-people-anti-death-penalty-movement-growing?akid=13023.1933828.xopb32&rd=1&src=newsletter1035128&t=15)
The death penalty disproportionately executes minorities and the poor. Please oppose the death penalty.
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The U.S. Is Still Executing People, But the Anti-Death Penalty Movement Is Growing
(https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-still-executing-people-anti-death-penalty-movement-growing?akid=13023.1933828.xopb32&rd=1&src=newsletter1035128&t=15)
Opposition to the death penalty in the U.S. is stronger now than at any point since the courts re-legalized it in 1976.
By Mario Marazziti (https://www.alternet.org/authors/mario-marazziti) / Seven Stories Press, April 17, 2015
The following is an excerpt from Mario Marazitti's new book, 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609805674?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1609805674&linkCode=xm2&tag=alternorg08-20) (Seven Stories Press (https://www.sevenstories.com/), 2015). Reprinted with permission.
All over the globe—in some countries more than others, to be sure—people are realizing that the state-sponsored killing of people is not worthy of our common humanity.
When the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe took place in 1975—an early sign of the easing of the Cold War and the strengthening of international cooperation—just 16 countries had abolished the death penalty or committed to doing so.
By the time the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, there were 19 more. The most prominent example was France, where in 1981 François Mitterand and Robert Badinter, just elected president and minister of justice respectively, took the country directly from the use of the guillotine to a radical rejection of death as punishment, abolishing it in all cases.
The next year alone—1990—nine more countries abolished the death penalty. By 2000, 29 more countries had done so, including Albania, the states of the former Yugoslavia, and the Baltic republics.
Most recently (I write in late 2014), Latvia and Poland have ratified a binding international Covenant. One hundred and five of the 192 countries represented at the United Nations have abolished the death penalty by law, and another 43 have abolished it in practice—either through public moratoria or by the de facto moratorium that can be counted when a country declines to practice capital punishment for a decade or longer.
Finish article here (https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-still-executing-people-anti-death-penalty-movement-growing?akid=13023.1933828.xopb32&rd=1&src=newsletter1035128&t=15)