35 години на смъртното наказание съжалява

от: "Амнести интернешънъл" в САЩ
публикувани: 1-ви юли 2011

Тридесет и пет години, юли 2, 1976, в навечерието на масивна двестагодишнина тържества, САЩ. Върховният съд в Грег V. Грузия гласува 7-2 повторно да въведе смъртно наказание. Не е имало екзекуции в САЩ. тъй като 1967. САЩ. could have been a leader in the subsequent worldwide trend toward death penalty abolition; instead the U.S. has become an outlier along with a minority of other countries (like China, Иран, and Saudi Arabia) that still kill prisoners.

What might have been?

Three of those 7 justices (Stevens, Blackmun and Powell) have since regretted their vote in Gregg, meaning that if there could be some sort of time-travel Stevens, Blackmun and Powell’s Excellent Adventure do-over, the death penalty might have never come back.

Но, as with executing likely innocent people, you can’t go back in time to undo your mistakes. The death penalty did come back.

A new report from Amnesty International (summary here) reflects on the last 35 years of American capital punishment, observing that while the U.S. has been busy killing over 1,250 затворници, the rest of the world has been abandoning the death penalty, с 139 nations now abolitionist in law or practice.

The isolation of the U.S. on this issue is beginning to have real consequences, as states’ degrading and cringe-inducing efforts to obtain execution drugs in an increasingly global marketplace runs up against growing global opposition to the death penalty.

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