The Canadian Press: US rejects call in UN human rights body to abolish death penalty
It's interesting though. America remains one of the few nations in the developed world who still has the death penalty (Japan is another). There are others who don't use it in regular practice but reserve it for war crimes.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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