NEW YORK -- The United States was the only Western democracy that executed prisoners last year, even as an increasing number of U.S. states are moving to abolish the death penalty, Amnesty International announced Monday.USA! USA! USA!
America's 43 executions in 2011 ranked it fifth in the world in capital punishment, the rights group said in its annual review of worldwide death penalty trends. U.S. executions were down from 46 a year earlier.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq
What do those countries have in common? Those are the only countries in the world that executed more people than we did last year!
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