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    The death penalty and the world

    Opponents to the death penalty never switched positions to avoid being alongside Vladimir Putin.

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...l=1#post142324

    Nevertheless, one of their catchphrases is that retaining capital punishment negatively affect the international image of the country, and puts it in bad company with China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.

    But who can seriously believe that if the United States abolished the death penalty, these people would stop teaching lessons and claim superiority?

    They would find something else for the same purpose, such as life imprisonment without parole.

    Nothing would be worse for Americans to end the death penalty, because that would be to confess to the world that they have been wrong for decades to resist European leadership, and that they need it.

    French elites seriously bash their own country on the ground that it the last one to have applied the death penalty in "Western Europe" — a geographical selection from people who at the same time are "anti-racists". Canonized-alive abolitionist Robert Badinter says that with a laughable tone in his famous 1981 speech at the National Assembly, when he was the justice minister who oversaw the abolishment of capital punishment in this country.

    Instead, the U.S. should insist that they are right, and dismiss the European elites as feeble, arrogant, and oligarchic.

    Renunciation to the ultimate penalty has never been a demonstration of strength. The first abolitionist momentum in the U.S. was when it was losing the Vietnam war. And the second momentum began almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks. In both cases, the United States was appearing as internalizing a weakness.

    Every year where death penalty opponents celebrate a new country making a move against capital punishment, it is usually a third-world country submitting to the wishes of its former colonizer, showing a lack of appetite for the self-government it insists to have harshly conquered.

    The example of Turkmenistan also, shows that death penalty abolitionism is not even inconsistent with totalitarianism.

    If each country had a vote proportional to its population, the UN resolutions against the death penalty would not pass, and would not even have been proposed.
    Last edited by Steven AB; 03-20-2024 at 07:16 PM.
    "If ever there were a case for a referendum, this is one on which the people should be allowed to express their own views and not irresponsible votes in the House of Commons." — Winston Churchill, on the death penalty

    The self-styled "Death Penalty Information Center" is financed by the oligarchic European Union. — The Daily Signal

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