According to Associated Press, China executed 726 people last year, without an open and fair legal system.
(Coughs) Texas!
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The Death Penalty System in Texas*
Number of Executions - Texas leads the nation by far in number of executions. Since the U.S Supreme Court ruling in 1976 that allowed executions to resume...Texas has performed 322.executions.( 35 percent of the national total. Texas has only 7.4 percent of the nation's entire population.)
Racism - 66 percent of all people on Texas's Death Row are non-white. Out of all the executions in Texas since 1982, no white person has ever been executed soley for the murder of an African-American. On Sept 10, 2003 Texas executed a white man for the murder of his white wife and a black female convenience store clerk. Of course, African-Americans are often sentenced to die in Texas for killing white people. For example, Napoleon Beazley, an African-American juvenile, was sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man. The last seven juvenile offenders executed in Texas since 1998 have all been African-Americans who committed their offenses at the age of 17.
Juveniles - There have been 22 executions of juvenile offenders in the U.S. since 1985. Texas has executed 13 of those juveniles or about 59 percent. The United States is virtually the only place on Earth that has not abandoned the practice of executing juvenile offenders. Texas scheduled five executions of juvenile offenders in 2004, before they were put on hold pending a U.S. Supreme Court decison.
Mental retardation - The governor of Texas vetoed a bill in 2001 that would have banned the execution of people with mental retardation. On June 20, 2002 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing people with mental retardation violates the U.S. Constitution's 8th Amendment prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment", so now such executions are banned in every state. Despite the Supreme Court ban, Johnny Penry, who suffers from mental retardation, was sentenced to death again in Texas on July 3, 2002. Texas has executed six people with mental retardation since 1982.
Innocence - 114 innocent people have walked off Death Row in the modern era after spending up to 33 years condemned to death. Seven Death Row inmates in Texas have been fully exonerated and released. There are several people currently on Death Row in Texas with credible claims of innocence.
But has anyone mentioned that China is full of people who look different and their military have WOMD?
I think if you really want people not to notice that you are a bigot you need to stop referring to disparate groups (of perhaps a billion) people in the way that you do when trying to stir up fear of 'them' with crap like...
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We simply can not trust them.
Is your attention span so short that an enemy a month is no longer sufficient?
Enjoy 'sorting out' the middle East for a little longer and do not be so keen to find fresh targets.
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Communists will always have an evil agenda no matter how they try to hide it.
GWB would be proud. Simplistic, outdated, retarded thinking. Are you a senator?
No racism towards the Chinese people and no suggestion that they are an enemy we need to go to battle with. As usual, the left is making things up. The point is that we need to pay attention to China. Thats all. I might be a little more familiar with China than you think.
No racism towards the Chinese people and no suggestion that they are an enemy we need to go to battle with. As usual, the left is making things up. The point is that we need to pay attention to China. Thats all. I might be a little more familiar with China than you think.
It will be an economic battle, that's all. Why is that bad? Isn't Reagan's 'free market' based on economic battles?
It certainly will be interesting to see how this all pans out. Sure, everything is made there - mostly due to so many workers making 5 cents an hour. They can't move forward without wages going up.
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According to Associated Press, China executed 726 people last year, without an open and fair legal system.
(Coughs) Texas!
The Death Penalty System in Texas*
Number of Executions - Texas leads the nation by far in number of executions. Since the U.S Supreme Court ruling in 1976 that allowed executions to resume...Texas has performed 322.executions.( 35 percent of the national total. Texas has only 7.4 percent of the nation's entire population.)
Racism - 66 percent of all people on Texas's Death Row are non-white. Out of all the executions in Texas since 1982, no white person has ever been executed soley for the murder of an African-American. On Sept 10, 2003 Texas executed a white man for the murder of his white wife and a black female convenience store clerk. Of course, African-Americans are often sentenced to die in Texas for killing white people. For example, Napoleon Beazley, an African-American juvenile, was sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man. The last seven juvenile offenders executed in Texas since 1998 have all been African-Americans who committed their offenses at the age of 17.
Juveniles - There have been 22 executions of juvenile offenders in the U.S. since 1985. Texas has executed 13 of those juveniles or about 59 percent. The United States is virtually the only place on Earth that has not abandoned the practice of executing juvenile offenders. Texas scheduled five executions of juvenile offenders in 2004, before they were put on hold pending a U.S. Supreme Court decison.
Mental retardation - The governor of Texas vetoed a bill in 2001 that would have banned the execution of people with mental retardation. On June 20, 2002 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing people with mental retardation violates the U.S. Constitution's 8th Amendment prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment", so now such executions are banned in every state. Despite the Supreme Court ban, Johnny Penry, who suffers from mental retardation, was sentenced to death again in Texas on July 3, 2002. Texas has executed six people with mental retardation since 1982.
Innocence - 114 innocent people have walked off Death Row in the modern era after spending up to 33 years condemned to death. Seven Death Row inmates in Texas have been fully exonerated and released. There are several people currently on Death Row in Texas with credible claims of innocence.
But has anyone mentioned that China is full of people who look different and their military have WOMD?
Time to get busy George...
No, you are the only one to mention that. It was not as issue to anyone else here.
Originally posted by tonton
According to Associated Press, China executed 726 people last year, without an open and fair legal system.
Out of a billion that's not very many.
We simply can not trust them.
Is your attention span so short that an enemy a month is no longer sufficient?
Enjoy 'sorting out' the middle East for a little longer and do not be so keen to find fresh targets.
Communists will always have an evil agenda no matter how they try to hide it.
GWB would be proud. Simplistic, outdated, retarded thinking. Are you a senator?
Originally posted by Common Man
The point is that we need to pay attention to China. Thats all.
The thread title implies a bit more hostility on your part. Nice to see you are toning it down a bit.
Originally posted by Common Man
No racism towards the Chinese people and no suggestion that they are an enemy we need to go to battle with. As usual, the left is making things up. The point is that we need to pay attention to China. Thats all. I might be a little more familiar with China than you think.
It will be an economic battle, that's all. Why is that bad? Isn't Reagan's 'free market' based on economic battles?