What the rest of the world thinks about the Death Penalty
| Abolitionists - Countries who have totally Abolished the Death Penalty: Australia, Germany, France, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, The Vatican City State, Yugoslavia (many have been neglected to be mentioned.) |
| Retentionists - USA, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, China, Afghanistan, Armenia, (Democratic Repulbic of) Congo, Cuba, Saudi Arabia |
| In a U.N. Comission on Human Rights investigation, Investigator Bacre Waly Ndaiye said he found it "particularly disturbing that the US is executing retarded people" and also commented that he was concerned that "many of the death sentences (in the United
States) continue to be handed down after trials which fall short
of international guarantees for a fair trial." He said six people
in the United States were reportedly given death sentences despite
doubts about their guilt, four were allegedly not given an adequate
defense, and three ,were allegedly sentenced to death after a trial
"marked by racial bias." Twelve other people were named as having been sentenced to death despite serious mental retardation. information found here |
| "Europeans are appalled at the unabated pursuit of the application of the death penalty in the U.S." says Bianca Jagger, official of Amnesty International USA. "They cannot understand how the US can claim to be the leading champion of democracy and continue to apply the death penalty." found here |