Volunteering to watch an execution

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(05-02-2017, 11:10 PM)Dill Wrote: I believe the US is at present the only 1st world country with the death penalty.

1st world country is always a bit of a misleading title considering China and India are the 2nd and 6th largest countries in the world by GDP, respectively. Yet neither of them are "1st world" countries. Both of them have the death penalty.

So of the top 6 economic powers in the world, 50% of them have the death penalty.

Meanwhile in Norway, they don't even have life sentences... so in 2011 when that guy killed 77 people (the Norway-to-US population % equivalent of killing roughly 4,800 people here) he got 21 years in prison. Sorry, but those are the kinds of people who need to be gone.