The Attack Continues
Well, the UN's attack on US policies continues this week. I love the UN way! Don't go after Hezbollah, or countries that execute people for changing religions or nations that come out and admit that they possess nuclear technology they wish to use on their neighbors. They're friends with them. No, attack a nation that executes a few murderers.
The United Nations said today that the United States should adopt a moratorium on the death penalty. Now, we don't execute political opponents, or thiefs, or people of different religions, or bank robbers or most of the time even child rapists. No, we execute the worst of the worst murdering criminals, sometimes. That is of course if the ENTIRE jury wants the death penalty, the prisoner doesn't win his appeal, the prisoner isn't pardoned by the governor or president and if the prisoner actually makes it to the chamber. Death row inmates often die in prison of old age before they get executed. Its not uncommon to find someone whose been on death row for at least 10 years. So of course this is ground for an attack by the United Nations. It urged the U.S. to review federal and state legislation, and to restrict the number of crimes that could carry a penalty of death. It also said Washington needed to assess the extent that death sentences are handed down disproportionately on minorities and poor people.
Ok, geniuses at the United Nations, guess what! What rights the federal government doesn't reserve in the Constitution is given to the states. Each state has its own penalties, death row, courts and laws. Washington has little to nothing to do with it. We don't live in a government like many of you do, where the capital of the federal government possesses all of the power.
The United Nations said today that the United States should adopt a moratorium on the death penalty. Now, we don't execute political opponents, or thiefs, or people of different religions, or bank robbers or most of the time even child rapists. No, we execute the worst of the worst murdering criminals, sometimes. That is of course if the ENTIRE jury wants the death penalty, the prisoner doesn't win his appeal, the prisoner isn't pardoned by the governor or president and if the prisoner actually makes it to the chamber. Death row inmates often die in prison of old age before they get executed. Its not uncommon to find someone whose been on death row for at least 10 years. So of course this is ground for an attack by the United Nations. It urged the U.S. to review federal and state legislation, and to restrict the number of crimes that could carry a penalty of death. It also said Washington needed to assess the extent that death sentences are handed down disproportionately on minorities and poor people.
Ok, geniuses at the United Nations, guess what! What rights the federal government doesn't reserve in the Constitution is given to the states. Each state has its own penalties, death row, courts and laws. Washington has little to nothing to do with it. We don't live in a government like many of you do, where the capital of the federal government possesses all of the power.
