Indonesia to execute six drug offenders

[CapnAwesome]

Right, of course I have option C. Don't go to any country where fucking Muslims are in charge of making the laws.

Agreed....although I suspect we here in the good ole US of A execute more people than Indonesia.

In fact, Amnesty International issued a report showing that we were consistently in the top 5...with such luminaries as China, N. Korea, Iran and Yemen.

Indonesia did not make the list.

As the friendly forum fact checker, I of course had to look into this. http://www.theguardian.com/world/datablo...by-country

So the US is 9th but only if you don't adjust for per capita,in which case they are near the bottom of countries that actually carry out the death penalty. Also of not unimportant note is that all the executions in the United States were for murder.

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In reality the US executed only 34 people in 2014

You're leaving out all the ones simply gunned down by cops. Granted, a few of them may have been guilty, but none went to trial.

Oh for sure it's the bigger problem. Even if you consider the death penalty to be immoral (I think life in prison is morally similar to the death penalty anyway) by far the larger problem is police killing people. 34 people were executed in 2015 in the United States, all of whom were convicted murderers. Where as in one month (August) of 2015 105 people were killed by cops, many of whom had committed no crime at all. In that statistic the US compares super unfavorably to just about everyone.