Jesli pan czyta po angielsku to prosze ustosunkowac sie do informacji ktore tu
przedstawiam:

(March 2000) What do the United States, China and Iran have in common? They are
among the few countries that still execute people. Foreigners wonder: how can
the United States lecture anybody in the world when the United States rank with
rogue countries around the world in executions? Some Americans fail to see that
outrage in the world for the death penalty is no different than outrage for
Saddam's or Milosevic's atrocities. How can the United States lecture other
countries in human rights when it executes 75 people a year (1999)? America
ranks with China and Iran among the countries with the death penalty, and
barely trails them in number of executions. Soon, a resolution will be
submitted to the United Nations asking for a world-wide ban on the death
penalty, just like there are world-wide bans against chemical weapons and
landmines: the United States will officially become a rogue country, in
violation of international law. What moral authority can the United States
assert in the world when it is in violation of elementary principles of
civilization?
Statistics show that the death penalty is even counterproductive: a 2000 FBI
report shows that homicide rates have been consistently lower in states without
the death penalty. The homicide rate in states with the death penalty has
always been higher (sometimes as much as 100% higher) than in states without
the death penalty. The South accounts for over 80% of the US' executions and
still has the highest number of homicides: are southerners genetically evil or
is the death penalty a factor that increases the number of homicides?
In a 1995 study, 100% of criminologists and 85% of police chiefs said that
politicians support the death penalty to show that they are tough on crime. 94%
of criminologists and 79% of police chiefs believed that the death penalty does
not significantly reduce the murder rate. Police chiefs listed five factors
that would be more effective than the death penalty to deter crime (one of them
being gun control). Countries in Europe that have long abolished the death
penalty have a far lower murder rate than the US.
Can please psychologists start studying why so many Americans favor the death
penalty? What kind of terribly dangerous frustrations keep this barbaric
practice in use? Isn't it time that we try to heal this very sick people before
their psychoses explode in a devastating manner? Would you trust a country that
still practices cannibalism with an arsenal of nuclear weapons?