Tuesday, January 31, 2006
An Argument Against Capital Punishment
Maybe this is one of the reasons that all civilized nations have banned capital punishment:
At least 10 percent of the first 1,000 people executed in the United States since 1977, were severely mentally ill, Amnesty International said. The London-based human rights organization, which opposes all forms of capital punishment, said the practice of putting to death people with serious mental illnesses offends standards of decency.
