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Death Penalty Around The World
Barron's ^ | June 3, 2022

Posted on 06/13/2022 3:48:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Myanmar's junta said Friday it would carry out its first executions since 1990 by hanging four people, including a former lawmaker from the party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a rights activist.

Myanmar is one of several dozen countries, including the United States, China, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia that continue to put prisoners to death, using methods including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.

In a recent report, Amnesty International noted an "alarming" increase in the recourse to the death penalty in Myanmar, which it attributed to cases of civilians being transferred to military or special tribunals that offer no right of appeal.

At least 579 people were put to death in eighteen countries in 2021, 96 more than in the previous year, the rights group said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; execution; myanmar
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The 579 number doesn't include China, North Korea, and Vietnam. China executes more people than the rest of the world combined.
1 posted on 06/13/2022 3:48:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“using methods including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.”

And, man, they are really dead after that.


2 posted on 06/13/2022 3:56:18 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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in America, we allow the condemned too many appeals, which results in the condemned not being executed swiftly.

the cndemned man may by use of appeals, steal 20 years froom the e ecutioner, import a prolonnged suffering to the victims’ family, and all at taxpayer expense.


3 posted on 06/13/2022 4:11:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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We don’t execute people for political dissent. Yet.


4 posted on 06/13/2022 4:12:10 PM PDT by Spok (Don’t pee down my leg and tell me it’s raining.z)
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To: Seruzawa

““using methods including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.”

... and dogs. Don’t forget the dogs.


5 posted on 06/13/2022 4:14:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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[The 579 number]


It’s much higher than that. In Mexico alone, 43,964 people were executed.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/959787/mexico-number-homicides/

The difference is they weren’t executed by the Mexican government. 0 government executions in Mexico. Would private executions be lower if the Mexican government actually did its job, which is to keep the public safe, and put to death a tiny sliver of the murderers in its midst? We’ll probably never find out.

Stateside, the private execution number for 2021 was 21,570.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191134/reported-murder-and-nonnegligent-manslaughter-cases-in-the-us-since-1990/

Number of government executions? 11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_the_United_States_in_2021

That is literally 1 government execution for every 2000 private executions.


6 posted on 06/13/2022 4:15:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Does Amnesty distinguish between death penalties that are proportionate (for example, to murderers) and those that are not (for example, to drug offenders)?


7 posted on 06/13/2022 4:17:31 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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using methods including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.

No Iron Maiden? No Burning at the Stake? No Drawing and Quartering?

(Sigh)They don't make executions like they used to./s
8 posted on 06/13/2022 4:29:07 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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Can't agree there.Trafficking certain drugs...heroin,cocaine,meth (and maybe others) is worthy of the DP.Singapore has a *mandatory* death penalty for the possession of large quantities of certain drugs. Singapore doesn't have a drug problem.
9 posted on 06/13/2022 4:29:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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Okay.

“using methods including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting... and dogs.”

Now they are really really really dead. Not mostly dead. But most sincerely dead.


10 posted on 06/13/2022 4:30:18 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Okay.

“using methods including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting... and dogs.”

Now they are really really really dead. Not mostly dead. But most sincerely dead.


11 posted on 06/13/2022 4:30:19 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Well, it does have a drug problem. But it’s all done through doctors. The govt is fine with it then. They get their cut, all above board.


12 posted on 06/13/2022 4:32:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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“Myanmar’s junta said Friday it would carry out its first executions since 1990 ...”

“In a recent report, Amnesty International noted an “alarming” increase in the recourse to the death penalty in Myanmar, ...”

Do they smoke a lot of weed at Amnesty International?


13 posted on 06/13/2022 5:30:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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To: Seruzawa

And you know this how?


14 posted on 06/13/2022 5:32:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: nickcarraway

Is a Myanmar beheading referred to as a “Burma Shave”?


15 posted on 06/13/2022 5:50:46 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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Shave and a head cut, two bits!


16 posted on 06/13/2022 6:15:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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Thats really saying something, considering the muslims.


17 posted on 06/13/2022 6:24:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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[“Myanmar’s junta said Friday it would carry out its first executions since 1990 ...”

“In a recent report, Amnesty International noted an “alarming” increase in the recourse to the death penalty in Myanmar, ...”

Do they smoke a lot of weed at Amnesty International?]


They take a lot of Soros money. Its unspoken motto? Crime victims don’t matter - criminals do.


18 posted on 06/13/2022 7:12:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Spok

We execute speechless babies. So superior.


19 posted on 06/14/2022 7:50:49 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Gay State Conservative

Not hard to find

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32179926/


20 posted on 06/14/2022 8:17:37 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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