just a few newspaper shreds...
An execution is an instance of murder, maybe legitimized by the government, but still murder. Therefore anyone who feels committed to an enlightened system of values necessarily disapproves of capital punishment. There are two vital arguments. For one thing, the sentence, once applied, is irreversible, even if the convicted person is afterwards proved to be innocent. For another, human beings are not entitled to decide about life and death.
That being so, Article 3 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has a right to live. ... Therefore it is not feasible to disapprove of capital punishment on principle, but still to postulate, pronounce and apply it (so to speak à la carte) in the case of particularly grave transgressions.
Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich
[The sentence] was signed in December 2003 by G* B*, the president of the occupants, when immediately after the arrest he told the BBC that "only capital punishment" could be appropriate for this "fearful tyrant"...
In the end the Texan clan of B* has settled the account with the Sunnite clan of Takriti. And at last the son can present the enemy's head to his father as a gift.
La Repubblica, Roma
S* was not allowed to die in bed like Pinochet
Corriere della Sera, Milano
The loud noise of EU politicians, the Vatican and human right activists jumping into the breach for the mass murderer S* is an exaggeration. Iraq is only one of 68 nations that apply capital punishment. Where, o where was the world-wide outcry when Japan executed four capital sentences last week?
Morgenpost, Berlin
(english translations by caru)
That being so, Article 3 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has a right to live. ... Therefore it is not feasible to disapprove of capital punishment on principle, but still to postulate, pronounce and apply it (so to speak à la carte) in the case of particularly grave transgressions.
Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich
[The sentence] was signed in December 2003 by G* B*, the president of the occupants, when immediately after the arrest he told the BBC that "only capital punishment" could be appropriate for this "fearful tyrant"...
In the end the Texan clan of B* has settled the account with the Sunnite clan of Takriti. And at last the son can present the enemy's head to his father as a gift.
La Repubblica, Roma
S* was not allowed to die in bed like Pinochet
Corriere della Sera, Milano
The loud noise of EU politicians, the Vatican and human right activists jumping into the breach for the mass murderer S* is an exaggeration. Iraq is only one of 68 nations that apply capital punishment. Where, o where was the world-wide outcry when Japan executed four capital sentences last week?
Morgenpost, Berlin
(english translations by caru)
Labels: freakin' politics
posted by caru | 2:14 AM
2 Comments:
I accidently saw pictures of the hanging. It was so scary, I wish I didn't see them. I do agree that it's unfair people making a fuss about it now, people get executed around the world. It should stop. It's barbarian.
scary for more than one reason. one gets the feeling that the man was hanged by his personal enemies. one shouted "long live muhammad bakr" (a radical shiite whose uncle was killed by s.h.'s men in 1999).
also, hangman and hanged man said to each other "god damn you". they will both go to hell, likely.
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