Moby on the milestone
Moby, December 2nd 2005, NYC:
today is a shameful day in america. today is the day that the 1,000th person will be executed in america since the death penalty was re-instated in the 1980's. most of our allies banished the death penalty long ago, for most of our allies have long recognized that the death penalty is implemented arbitrarily and capriciously(question: how many wealthy, white people with good legal teams have been executed in the last 20 years?). and now we know that a significant percentage of the 1,000 people who've been executed were in fact innocent. and by 'significant percentage' i mean any percentage more than 0%. the death penalty is inherently barbaric, and it's barbarism is only enhanced by the fact that innocentpeople have been put to death. as i said, today is a shameful day in america. moby
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I really think governments worldwide need to seriously consider whether there is any place for capital punishment in 2005. And if Australians are going to campaign against Singaporean laws, then they should also campaign against the regular beheadings and public whippings in places like Saudia Arabia... Not to mention the frequent issuing of the death penalty in the United States and other countries.
today is a shameful day in america. today is the day that the 1,000th person will be executed in america since the death penalty was re-instated in the 1980's. most of our allies banished the death penalty long ago, for most of our allies have long recognized that the death penalty is implemented arbitrarily and capriciously(question: how many wealthy, white people with good legal teams have been executed in the last 20 years?). and now we know that a significant percentage of the 1,000 people who've been executed were in fact innocent. and by 'significant percentage' i mean any percentage more than 0%. the death penalty is inherently barbaric, and it's barbarism is only enhanced by the fact that innocentpeople have been put to death. as i said, today is a shameful day in america. moby
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I really think governments worldwide need to seriously consider whether there is any place for capital punishment in 2005. And if Australians are going to campaign against Singaporean laws, then they should also campaign against the regular beheadings and public whippings in places like Saudia Arabia... Not to mention the frequent issuing of the death penalty in the United States and other countries.
posted by Anthony Stoddart @ 11:07 AM
1 Comments:
At Sun Dec 04, 09:47:00 PM,
Sarah said…
The death penalty should not be considered a valid part of any country's justice system, but particularly not for drug offences. As Hayden said, the prospect for rehabilitation and contribution to society of a young man like Nguyen Tuong Van was high. Not only that, the prospect that his hanging will result in a decline in drug smuggling is next to nil.
The US has executed people who were most probably innocent of the crime of which they were accused, but in several cases the judiciary ordered crucial DNA evidence destroyed on the grounds that if indeed an innocent person had been executed it woulc shake Americans' faith in the justice system. Better to carry on blithely executing innocent people than to uncover a dreadful mistake.
The death penalty for accused Bali bombers shouldn't be supported either, no matter how politically expedient it may be. Indonesia's justice system is one that is rather open to bribery, and has also had significant incidence of torture to induce confessions in the past.
Don't want to even get started on Saudi Arabia and similar regimes. The death penalty is indefensible.
There was a period in US history known as 'prohibition', when alcohol was banned. As an illegal drug, which was regularly smuggled across the border, I wonder how many Australians would support the death penalty in those circumstances for smuggling alcohol? After all, alcohol is the cause of either the biggest or 2nd biggest number of drug-related deaths in this country...
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