America, me especially has no fundamental problem with the death penalty. Just so long as their is ample evidence that makes it known for 100% that a person is guilty of some heineious crime, I say light em up.
I am not opposed to the Chinese giving the death penalty as long as the proof is there and there has been a fair trial and proceedings, including no planting false evidence or whatever.
Some of those Europeans have a fundamental problem with the state, any state putting people to death for any reason at all. With them, Osama killed 3,000 people, but you still could not execute him. With that, no war is justified, ever, even the one against Hitler, which saved the European's asses. Their argument is fundamentally flawed.
Where to draw the line now is a different matter.
The punishment itself is not what is in question here, it is the law that persecutes someone for doing something so basic as believe in a religion.
You have state sanctioned persecution of religion. Anything they think that you should not believe in, sorry.
It is a monumental abuse of power. It goes against the very tenets of basic humanity. The basic freedom to choose ones belief system is accepted world-wide, except in China and some other power abusive systems. They can't be having anything that competes with their political power.
They are choosing political power in a flawed system over protecting of people, which protecting the people is what governments are designed for in the first place.
We don't kill people for owning or transporting Bibles.
You can't be serious, can you?
You are equating capital punishment for people have committed heinous cromes, usually mass murder with distributing a book?