Death penalty in the world. The US is in very poor company in this list.

[Mass]

http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/ill/2006/10/10/h_4_PEINEM+X1I1---copie.gif

Sorry for the map in French. I could not find the equivalent in English.

Sadly, the US is in very poor company among the countries which had executions in 2005: China, Iran, Lybia, Pakistan, ...

Legend:

Red: still have the death penalty.

Red + * : have used it in 2005.

Pink: have death penalty, but have not used it in 10 years.

Light blue: abolished but for exceptional crimes.

Dark blue: abolished.

[indepat]

1. Wherever the US is poor on a list, the 'pukes have gotten their way

[NaturalHigh]

4. Lots of Democrats favor the death penalty.

Bill Clinton comes to mind.

[bluestateguy]

2. Think of it this way

America is partaking in aspects of non-Western cultures. What good liberal could oppose that?

[LostinVA]

3. This one can

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. This map is not accurate

Japan has not abolished the death penalty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11306-2005Jan15.html

[Mass]

6. Definitively an oversight from their part. This said, this does not

change the point I was making. The article this map is part of listed Japan among the country that use death penalty.