Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state

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Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state

Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.
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12:17 PM · Dec 1, 2021

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While the last-minute commutation of one death sentence for Julius Jones is positive, it comes just weeks after the gruesome, grisly death of John Grant. This violence, sanctioned on the behalf of all Americans, should appall each and every citizen, as it appalls so many of our traditional international allies across and around the world.

America is on a list of countries that allow such barbarism. That list includes China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt and Somalia, among others. As per Amnesty International, more than two-thirds of nations have either banned capital punishment by law or by practice, and this includes almost all of Europe, even Russia, leaving Belarus as the lone nation in that region still putting citizens to death.

The United States sits alone on this issue, as well it should. The death penalty, whether sanctioned federally or by state, is a breach of various human rights standards. It brings dishonor and further discredit on this country, its citizens and its allies. While the nation continues to grapple with its own history of slavery, racism, segregation, various forms of xenophobia, anti-miscegenation, abuse, molestation and forced sterilization, this country’s willingness to end life through legally sanctioned means and methods must also be addressed.

That the United States participates in such vulgar and primitive practices as capital punishment while a nation like Norway rarely even give their feloniously guilty citizens anywhere even near the max potential sentence, which remains 21 years, should force one to ask oneself just precisely why Norway can stick to a sane, humane system of rehabilitation that this nation, the allegedly exceptional one, cannot.

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