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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (480075)	9/25/2021 12:05:42 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maple MAGA Respond to of 541477

I specifically said western Democracies as that is the metric of civilization I was using. <,essage #480075 from Cautious_Optimist at 9/24/2021 10:32:43 PM E.g. we are the last western democracy to still allow capital punishment. Primarily because of false convictions and uncertainty and racial/class bias of judgment I still favor abolishing the death penalty nationally. Rhetorically parsing the statement to "western democracies" isn't really fair since that's basically only North America and Europe (the European Union banned it) -- not really a fair sample of the modern world. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea are considered democracies and maintain capital punishment. Fact check me, but I believe Japan still uses hanging for its executions. South Korea maintains the death penalty, has a lot of people on "death row"-- though they have not used it for many years. Countries that have the death penalty include: Afghanistan Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Chad China Comoros Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominica Egypt Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Guyana India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jamaica Jordan Kuwait Lesotho Libya Malaysia Nigeria North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestinian Territories Saudi Arabia Singapore Somalia South Sudan St Kitts and Nevis St Lucia St Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Syria Taiwan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Uganda United Arab Emirates United States of America Vietnam Yemen Zimbabwe