Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 06, 2006 11:48 PM
> As for unemployment: release 2 million prisoners > and we will see what unemployment figures do
In a population of 1.3 billion, they might rise by around 0.15%. No significant effect.
> That's 3,400+ [executions] out of a > population of over 1 billion.
That's about 13 times more than the US figures for 2004.
So China is significantly worse, but the US is still pretty bad (allowing for the execution of criminals who were minors or mentally deficient, and providing an appeals process so lengthy that the process itself amounts to cruel and unusual punishment - the British Privy Council held that a decade or so on death row met that criterion, and commuted a Commonwealth death sentence.
None of this means I hate the US -- just in case any paranoid-americans are reasing<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 06, 2006 11:48 PM> and we will see what unemployment figures do
In a population of 1.3 billion, they might rise by around 0.15%. No significant effect.
> That's 3,400+ [executions] out of a
> population of over 1 billion.
That's about 13 times more than the US figures for 2004.
So China is significantly worse, but the US is still pretty bad (allowing for the execution of criminals who were minors or mentally deficient, and providing an appeals process so lengthy that the process itself amounts to cruel and unusual punishment - the British Privy Council held that a decade or so on death row met that criterion, and commuted a Commonwealth death sentence.
None of this means I hate the US -- just in case any paranoid-americans are reasing<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
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