Hmmm…Singapore seems to be conspicuously absent from that list. I would imagine they are doing at least one execution per 1,000,000 if not a lot more.
Probably, but Singapore doesn’t release official statistics of executions. The newspaper will sometimes report on executions, but it’s generally not public information.
Yeah…although I was being pretty oblique about it, that was actually the point I was trying to make about the local standards when it comes to releasing information.
And just for the record, this sort of transperancy applies to more than just executions.
Actually, it’s more than 100% effective, because they sometimes kill people who didn’t even commit the crime. That’s some pre-emptive deterrence right there.
Wow, you are quibbling where you come on the list when you should be bothered that you are on there in the first place.
Don’t you want to join the rest of the civilised world on this one? It is very difficult for the US to maintain any moral high-ground while you continue to execute your own citizens.
In 2005 there were about 115 fatalities a day due to car accidents. That’s less than 223 but I don’t see this deterring driving.
223 people executed in the United States would only be a headline in the news for a month and then we’d go back to talking about Charlie Sheen. So no real deterrent power there.
Your odds of dying in a car accident are pretty slim. In the US in 2009, there were 1.26 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles. In an average year, you drive ~12,000 miles, so your odds of dying are about one in 6614.
Using Euphonious Polemic’s calculations, if you commit a violent crime under my proposed expansion of the death penalty, your odds of being sentenced to death would be somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 6.
That presumes that people are being executed for being guilty. And it presumes that suddenly racial, class and gender bias vanish from the police & courts.
Not to hijack the thread, but what country could possibly have more creationists than we do? The United States is pretty much ground zero for creationism and millenialism. And are you talking about percentage or absolute numbers?
Turkey, of all places. Apparently, secular democracies with a dominant majority religion generate a lot of crazy people.
No it isn’t.
No it isn’t.
Wrong. The answer is yes.
My first guess was eating babies.