Amnesty details world executions, calls for action

LONDON - At least 24 people a week were executed officially last year and a further 64 sentenced to death, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday, adding that this was likely to be an ...

[Donnie]

The action should be to increase the number of executions and make them all of murderers and child rapists. A mere 24 "official" executions a week is not even close to enough. The liars at Amnesty International should have provided some perspective by putting the number of murders in that week next to the number of executions.

[Ozzie]

According to the World Health Organization, some 56 Million deaths occur per year, at the current global average. That works out to about 153,400 per day, or a little more than 100 per minute.

Executions pale to this comparison.

[Bill]

I AGREE WITH DONNIE. If you think he is not accurate go to the AI site and look at 2 things. First, look and see if it covers executions in other countries as it does for US executions. Second, take almost any of the write ups for the individuals in the US who have been executed and then research the actual case. Virtually every one of these are wonderful works of fiction and only have a slight degree of fact to them.