>Clare isn't the only European on these forums.
>
>As a European, I'd like to know what European countries cut of
>hands? Or cut out tongues? Where do you get your information?
>To be clear, any member of the European Union has to agree to
>uphold human rights. Your not allowed to be a member of the
>European Union if you don't. Hence, Turkey's problems to
>become a member.
>
>And as a European, name one European country where they
>execute the death sentence? (Or still have the death
>sentence?)
>
>I think you may want to look at it from a different
>perspective? Maybe your punishing so harshly, criminals won't
>stop at nothing, cause they'll be executed anyway.
>
>Dutchie
As far as I know Belarus still has capital punishment. Isn't that Europe? There may be other Eastern European countries as well. Also, the US is not really the country to use as a yard stick as to whether the death penalty is successful in stopping crime. Criminals sit on "death row" for many many years, files court appeals, etc. I think to judge its efficacy we'd have to see what happens when the death penality punishment is carried out in a more swift and sure fashion, say within a few days of conviction. Just my thoughts.
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