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EU criticizes death penalty in the US after 1,000th execution
Jul 21, 2009, 23:01 GMT
Stockholm - The European Union repeated its criticism of the death penalty in a statement Tuesday after the 1,000th execution was carried out in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
The EU said it noted with 'deep regret' that Marvallous Keene was Tuesday executed by lethal injected in the state of Ohio.
Sweden, which on July 1 assumed the rotating presidency of the 27- nation bloc, issued the statement on behalf of the EU.
'The EU is opposed to the use of capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances and has consistently called for its universal abolition,' the statement said.
Capital punishment has not proved to be a deterrent, 'and any miscarriage of justice - which is inevitable in any legal system - is irreversible.'
The EU, which has abolished the death penalty, renewed its call on US federal and state authorities to introduce 'a moratorium' on further executions.
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The EU and their dogma never seem address the 100% effectiveness of the death penalty in stopping said criminal from repeating the offense. I suspect that their populace is fooled into believing that 'life' imprisonment really means lifetime detention.
Then, for whatever reason, they ignore the fact that soverign states passed this, democratically, into law, where it has stood the repeated tests of the fairest court in the world, the US Supreme court against the US Constitution.
This being the case, one must ask what part of all of this they fail to understand?
All of the above being true, the next argument they run to is the death therapy as a deterrent. It is not: It is simply punishment.
America, while having had it's share of atrocities, has never had the mass, industrialized murder, ethinc cleansing or totalitarian rape Europe seems to repeat about every 100 years, or less. Perhaps it is certain punishment and a legal framework along with a constitution guaranteeing personal freedoms (like the 2nd amendment) that has protected so many from the gulags and concentration camps, familiar in a place that paradoxically seems mistakingly to think it's more evolved or sophisticated than we are?
in sp4's arse. Make him #1001.
'America, while having had it's share of atrocities, has never had the mass, industrialized murder, ethinc cleansing or totalitarian rape'
Oh, yeah? Just ask the indiginous people about that, Sh*t Pile 4.
the word is spelled indigenous. Now illiterate sp4 won't be confused about another word.
'America, while having had it's share of atrocities, has never had the mass, industrialized murder, ethinc cleansing or totalitarian rape Europe seems to repeat about every 100 years, or less. Perhaps it is certain punishment and a legal framework along with a constitution guaranteeing personal freedoms (like the 2nd amendment) that has protected so many from the gulags and concentration camps, familiar in a place that paradoxically seems mistakingly to think it's more evolved or sophisticated than we are?'
How about the American Indian. God you are stupid, do you ever think before you spout off your lies? Wrong again screwball.
...you failed to see that we never did the industialized murder our friends to the east perpetrated. Certainly not the indians, who were never really enslaved, even with all the things we did do to them.
Man up gooberhead. Try less insult and more content.
...you fail to see reality
'Certainly not the indians, who were never really enslaved,'
Man up gooberhead.'
Outright bullsh*t, EssPee. Man up gooberhead. Try less insult and more content.
..to my knowledge, no american indian tribe was ever successfully enslaved, unless you know of one I am unaware of. certainly no tribe I've ever heard of admits to being enslaved. They were defeated on the battlefield, rounded up and put on reservations. They were persecuted, the victims of a certain kind of ethnic cleansing, and poor treatment but they were never successfully enslaved, nor were they ever mass murdered on the scale that Europe did to Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally challenged individuals...russians...poles....dogs...cats....each other...well...you know...
Try and concentrate monkey boy. It's OK if you're naturally stupid, but since you are, you need not try so hard at it.
'..to my knowledge,'
Which is extremely limited. Limited to knowing what it takes to roll a joint, that is.
who can hack M&C and get SP4's IP? Please publish it all over this site. That way SP4 can get the spamming he so richly deserves.
...if I were as embarrassed as you, I'd be asking for help, too.
who says I'm embarrassed, You? LOLOL. ROFLMAO.
You should be asking for help. God only knows what you've done to your brain, smoking that Paraquat-soaked Mexican brick weed. Somehow I doubt even Divine intervention could help you. Time for the needle in the arse and euthanize you, SP.
We do not need to kill. We do not need to be barbaric. The present day Europeans are more civilized on this account.
....I seem to remember your bretheren rounding up muslims in camps, by the thousands, then executing them, not too long ago and letting them starve, while the leaders twittled their thumbs, all of this addressed only after America took a leadership role in the one place European leaders should have been able to deal with.
Then you go from nation to nation and find search without warrant (Britain) censorship (Britain) rendition (Italy, Romania, etc.)....
Then, you let card carrying terrorists run free like Carlos Martinez for 3 decades, putting your public at risk.
You were just telling us how civilized you are....?
Not Buying it.
Search without warrant? Censorship?
Try to put it in context of provide a reference, eh, SP. You may be sure I'll answer honestly when I know what the hell you're on about.
As for bloodthirsty Europeans topping each other left right and centre, well, you've had your fair share over the as yet short existence of your country. Plus slavery, segregation, unhinged god-botherers in your bible belt, murder rates far above the European average today.
What you seem to forget is that Europe is a mosaic of historic national states with different languages, cultures and a lot of old grievances to go with them. I think you're referring to the sh*tfest that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. What you've got to remember is that the eastern half of the continent was just emerging from the communist dark age. Yugoslavia wasn't part of the Soviet Bloc but was still communist and when Tito snuffed it, a lot of nationalist tensions surfaced.
Most of the rest of us seem to have been able to restrain our unholy blood lust for the last six and a half decades or so, wouldn't you say?
Oh, and I mentioned Yugoslaia. For the benefit of US posters, it used to be the bit on the map just to the right of Italy. Er... Italy, SP, is the bit at the bottom that's shaped like a boot!
Hope this avoids any confusion :)
'....I seem to remember'
ROFLMAO! SP remember anything? LOL. Just more drug dreams, SP, that's all. Your brain is so fried that it's amazing that you still know how to roll a joint.
you see a lot, but you need to focus.....yes, warrantless search, seizure and censorship. Your national security laws have been used to gag speech on domestic defense spending i.e. hide the details, and those are just the points we know about. Your MI-5 (et al) can, without warrant, step into just about any property in Britain and detain, indefinitely, just about anyone they please.
As for the others across the Pond, mentioning Eastern Europe does not excuse the fact that it happened and just the way I described. Many of these same governments were caught red-handed doing renditions and expediting of foreign nationals to outsourced 'interrogations'. This did not happen six decades ago, it happened when Clinton was asked to take out the trash, and then when Bush was in office. when caught, they tried to charge CIA operatives until it came out they had official help.
As for slavery, this was started by our colonial oppressors we ran out of the country, and when the incumbants would not yield, we settled it on the battlefield. Segregation, was regrettable, to be sure, but never the millimetric industrialized slaughter of Europe, and was far lighter than how Europe treated, in general, jews, Gypsies, Kurds...heck, dogs, cats, etc. As for the bible belters, the last killing with them was the FBI and ATF murdering kids in Waco for one B.S. gun charge against a crazy preacher, which never held up in court. So if you have an ax to grind in the bible belt, I'm sure they'd oblige.
Now it's true you may not execute anyone, and this is fine with me, but let's not try and sell me on the fact that somehow this makes you morally superior. All it proves to me is that you lack the will to protect yourselves from harm, a tradition Europe has enjoyed for centuries and others have had to clean up after.
'Segregation, was regrettable, '
Well, sh*t for brains, you idiots did not settle it on the battlefield, it continued well into the 1960's. It still exists, in spite of all the equality talk.
As for the rest of the crap that you seem to think is profound, here's some news: It isn't. It's a load of hogwash. Cripes, EssPee, why don't you just OD and end your miserable, useless existence.
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sp'sassJul 22nd, 2009 - 12:03:23
How dare that international conspiracy if libnazis criticize the US?
Leave it to feel good, terrorist friendly, tree hugging socialists to want to help the criminals. If we want to set up incinerators to take care of our criminal scum, then it is no business of the cowards abroad.
When we start taking care of the libnazis who took over the govmint, then the froggies will be croaking more nonsense about the sanctity of life.
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