Infographic: Breaking down the death penalty

[That Guy]

Infographic: Breaking down the death penalty

On World Day Against the Death Penalty, Al Jazeera looks at state-sanctioned killing around the world.

Infographic: Breaking down the death penalty - Interactive - Al Jazeera English

Interesting statistics, thought you guy'd find it interesting. One thing I've found interesting is that while the world has been condemning Pakistan's death penalty, we hear almost nothing about places like Japan and the US, even though they have a far higher execution rate than Pakistan. Two wrongs may not make a right, but double standards do exist. -That Guy


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[American_Millenium]

The reason we have such a high per capita incarceration rate is due to

1: Drug offences taken very seriously.

2: Our laws being enforced better than almost every single country in the world, due to a very large police force and huge purchases of equipment.

 

[Genesis]

Woman was stabbed to death in China, the killer turned himself in.

The law took that into account and gave him the death sentence, but with a two year wait period.

Now the family of the victim is asking for the injection through appeals.


Most people see China's death sentence as some how human right abuse by the communist party, but they fail to realize, not giving the death penalty results in protests by the people, sometimes even by people not involved.

We try to give second chances, but the people demands it. For example, in certain incidents, if a victim's family don't press for the death sentence, due to certain humanitarian reasons, the law could give life, or around 20 years, but this is very rarely exercised.

 

[PWFI]

We Should hang "Khawarij", corrupt peoples, murders...in Public, it's a must if we want to stop this mess!

 

[Azizam]

I support death penalty for certain crimes but I don't support public executions since they seem barbaric to me. I never expect to wake up early and see some dead bodies on the way to some place.

 

[Thorough Pro]

I am in favor of head chopping in open public spaces.

We Should hang "Khawarij", corrupt peoples, murders...in Public, it's a must if we want to stop this mess!

 

[Spring Onion]

There are very rare cases of capital punishment in Pakistan.

Anyway death penalty for terrorists and deliberate murderers should be there

 

[livingdead]

Infographic: Breaking down the death penalty

On World Day Against the Death Penalty, Al Jazeera looks at state-sanctioned killing around the world.

Infographic: Breaking down the death penalty - Interactive - Al Jazeera English

Interesting statistics, thought you guy'd find it interesting. One thing I've found interesting is that while the world has been condemning Pakistan's death penalty, we hear almost nothing about places like Japan and the US, even though they have a far higher execution rate than Pakistan. Two wrongs may not make a right, but double standards do exist. -That Guy


@Web Master, @Aeronaut, @jaibi, @Alpha, @hinduguy, @Jazzbot, @PWFI, @Secur, @Yzd Khalifa, @batmannow, @Spring Onion

I dont think the world condemns any death penalty that carried out in pakistan as such, except probably human right activists and org like amnesty international, who are equally scathing in their condemnation of US or china.

People are more worried about miscarriage of justice(criminals not prosecuted properly but innocents are caught sometimes) in our part of world, than quantum of punishment as such.

 

[Okemos]

Woman was stabbed to death in China, the killer turned himself in.

The law took that into account and gave him the death sentence, but with a two year wait period.

Now the family of the victim is asking for the injection through appeals.


Most people see China's death sentence as some how human right abuse by the communist party, but they fail to realize, not giving the death penalty results in protests by the people, sometimes even by people not involved.

We try to give second chances, but the people demands it. For example, in certain incidents, if a victim's family don't press for the death sentence, due to certain humanitarian reasons, the law could give life, or around 20 years, but this is very rarely exercised.

I agree. I really dislike this one human life for another human life mentality of certain victim families.

Death penalty is not proven to be effective deterrent against crimes; the only purpose it serves is for revenge, which is really ugly attitude and in my eyes, those victim families are no better than criminals.

Alas, this problem is further compounded by the fact that the public opinions have too much sway in law and order. Chinese people cry about how China is not governed by law, but they enjoy interfering with the legal systems through protests, cry and other childish rages, lol.