In our run towards fascism, we now have a Supreme Court that allows faster convictions while the Chinese put all executions before their grandest court- something we ended long ago under the Rhenquist era.
BEIJING, June 8 — China, which puts more inmates to death than the rest of the world combined, is reporting fewer executions this year after reinstating a requirement that every death case be reviewed and approved by the country’s highest court.
Ni Shouming, a spokesman for the Supreme People’s Court, said Friday that lower courts across the country were reporting declining numbers of executions, though he did not provide any specifics.
He told China Daily, the official English-language newspaper, that the national figures dovetailed with a recent survey of two lower courts in Beijing, which found a 10 percent drop in executions during the first five months of 2007.
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A decision by the Supreme Court on Monday that made it easier for prosecutors to exclude people who express reservations about the death penalty from capital juries will make the panels whiter and more conviction-prone, experts in law and psychology said this week.
The jurors who remain after people with moral objections to imposing the death penalty are weeded out, studies uniformly show, are significantly more likely to vote to find defendants guilty than jurors as a whole.
This is really the death of irony and the death of America as the free-est country in the world.
An irony and a cold hard lesson- that we are in a fascist state that lies and cheats and steals and wages war and could care less about what this country stands for.
Perhaps better stated "stood for".
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