China, Iran, Saudi, USA main executioners - We are in good company. eh?)

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=594922006

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people were known to have been executed around the world last year, the vast majority of them in China, followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

In its annual report on executions, the rights group said about 1,770 executions were reported to have been carried out in China in 2005, but added the real figure was undoubtedly much higher, noting a Chinese legal expert had been quoted as saying the true figure was about 8,000.

At least 94 people were executed in Iran, 86 in Saudi Arabia and 60 in the United States.

"As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the U.S. stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment," Khan said.

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1. I just can't believe that we couldn't have given these 60 people life

And then we would be able to get our name off this list and not have to associate ourselves with state imposed barbarism.

People and their pound of flesh make me fucking sick.

Don

[sweetheart]

2. it is disturbing indeed

sad and tragically unreminiscent of the framer's approach.