[domenad]

Given the amount of people that China executed, which is more I believe than the US has executed since the death penalty was reinstated, why would anyone ever bother to lobby the US to end the death penalty? Seems to me the real progress is to be made in the east. Oh you mean the Chicoms would beat your liberal rear ends and charge them to clean the blood off their batons? Fascinating.

[bassmaner]

Since China is nominally communist, they can simply claim that they don't have a 'death penalty'. Rather, they have the 'supreme measure of social defense', which is not really a 'punishment' but a 'defense' of their shining socialist paradise against 'imperialist running dogs' and 'capitalist roaders'.

Which is why the UN lobbies the US about it, not China. It's all about the 'dialectic'.