Posted Sep 14, 2010 18:27 UTC (Tue) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: Citizen Linus by MisterIO
Parent article: Citizen Linus
> I obviously don't consider the US the "by far most oppressive state on
> this planet"(it's not even close to that), but it's definitely a
> moralistic and conservative country.
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> It's also one of the countries which execute more people (second only
> to China) and I don't even want to start talking about those states in
> the US where it's possible to execute even minors!
Then move to New York or Massachusetts, there capital punishment is declared to be unconstitutional :-)
So, this is a decision of the state, not of the country US.