Iran has decided that executions will no longer take place in public. This is shame... I for one was very supportive of public executions and was hoping to see them here in the United States. It's not like you have to watch them if you do not want to, but talk about a deterrent. If you believe that the death penalty is a deterrent, how can you not agree that putting it out in public makes it that much stronger?
"Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a moderate conservative cleric, also banned publishing pictures and broadcasting video footage of executions, the report said. Shahroudi has made other surprising decisions in the past. In 2004, he ordered a ban on the use of torture in obtaining confessions — a decision widely seen as the first public acknowledgment of the practice of torture in Iran."
Ok, well at least he put a stop to torturing confessions out of people... so I guess he is doing some good.
Interestingly, Iran has hanged more than 20 people convicted of murder, rape and drug smuggling during the first 30 days of this year. Meanwhile, the United States only executed 42 people during the first 9 months of 2007, with only 1 getting the chair.
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Speaking of torture...
CIA Director Michael Hayden publicly confirmed for the first time the names of three suspected al-Qaida terrorists who were subjected to a particularly harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding, and why.
“We used it against these three detainees because of the circumstances at the time”
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The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has saved American lives.
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I agree.
Rating are down locally too it would seem...
"Electric chair executions were yesterday suspended in Nebraska, which had been the only state to rely solely on electrocution as its sole method of dispatching the condemned. This doesn't mean the barbaric practice is totally finished in the U.S. since, as the N.Y. Times' Adam Liptak has reported, "seven states allow at least some inmates to choose electrocution instead of lethal injection [and] two others, Illinois and Oklahoma, have designated electrocution as the fallback method should lethal injection be ruled unconstitutional."
Electric Chair, Adieu
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