A Chinese execution team
Posted on 04/05/2005 7:09:45 AM PDT by bedolido
More people were executed in 2004 than any year since 1996, according to Amnesty International.
At least 3,797 people were executed in 25 countries in 2004 - the vast majority in China.
The charity, which is calling for the abolition of the death penalty, found executions had peaked at the second highest level for 25 years.
Only four countries accounted for 97% of all deaths. China executed at least 3,400 people, Iran executed at least 159, Vietnam at least 64 and the USA 59.
China refuses to give official figures for executions, but in March 2004 a delegate at the National People's congress said that "nearly 10,000" people were executed each year in China.
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: "This is an alarming rise in executions and the figures uncovered from China are genuinely frightening.
"And what is more, these executions are believed to be only the tip of the iceberg, with many countries continuing to execute people in secret.
"The death penalty is cruel and unnecessary, does not deter crime and runs the risk of killing the wrongly convicted. It is time to consign the death penalty to the dustbin of history."
A Chinese execution team
I guess the 20,000 killed last year in the Sudan don't count...
Here is what we have been "taught" by the elitist and corporate ceo's.
1970's
When the chinese middle class is started these things won't happen.
1980's
When the chinese midle class grows these things won't happen
1990's
When the chinese middle class grows due to free trade freedoms and oppression will disappear
2000's
The chinese middle class will be doing so much consuming Amrica will have zero unemployment because they will want our goods so badly
2005
Buy stock in Chinese bullet companies.
I don't like it either. But is there an economically realistic alternative?
Quote: But is there an economically realistic alternative?
Right off the bat only trade with countries that don't have nukes pointed at us.
Not to mention that the Chinese harvest body parts from executed prisoners and sell them to the West. If they need more body parts, they just execute more fresh prisoners.
You have a point. If we stopped all trade with China, do you think they'd back off on the nukes, or be more likely to use them, or neither?
I don't think they would back off the nukes and don't think that they would use them but at least they would have to find money elswhere to buy them, not from us.
Kinda like the old communist saying about capitalist: They will sell us the rope to hange ourselves.
Well I guess if we engage them with more free-trade agreements they'll come around. That's the ticket!
The charity, which is calling for .....
Charity? Right. They started by championing the cause of political prisoners who were being executed. Since then they've morphed into a political organization fighting the death penalty in all its forms.
Groups like Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists (three lies in four words), and Planned Parenthood are always presented as altruistic angels. Some people think the death penalty, properly enforced, saves lives. Others can't see spending billions on CO2 reduction while millions die from lack of clean drinking water and malria. They're always presented as partisan special interest groups arrayed against these saints.
Another example of media bias.
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