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11/30 Yahoo! News - Netherlands Hospital Euthanizes Babies
http://csua.org/u/a5n
Helping people wanting to die to kill themselves is one thing, but this
is completely different and I think it's horrible. -Friendly Troll
\_ I bet you're pro-life, too, right?
\_ As President Bush looked up to see who he was greeting [Canadian
pro-life activist] Reid said, "Thank you for being pro-life."
The President responded, "You bet." The President then turned to
leave. He stopped however and turned back. Looking directly into
Reid's eyes, the President said, with obvious sincerity, "I
appreciate that."
\_ Pro-life until you are born, then the death penalty is ok.
\_ There is a difference between an innocent unborn and
a death row inmate who was judged to have commited some
heinous crime.
\_ Hey man, don't let facts get in a way of a liberal
motd zinger. Honestly, are you new here?
\_ And the death penalty is always administered
fairly, without bias, and the courts are never
wrong.
\_ And the "pro life" people here have repeatedly
stated that it's ok to kill innocent people on
death row as long as they get to kill the
"really bad guy."
\_ Reference please, especially since you
claim "repeatedly".
\_ Are you really this incompetent? One
quick search on KAIS for "death penalty"
turned up several threads.
\_ Since you made the claim, please
substantiate by posting the URLs to
the specific threads. Note threads,
since you claimed "repeatedly".
http://csua.com/?entry=13449 _/
Use your favorite motd archiver which has more data than KAIS
and grep for '"death penalty" innocent' for more.
\_ Yes, *one* entry. So much for your claim of
"several threads". Now can you substantiate
your claim of "repeatedly"? Or were you just
exagerating for effect? Again, you made the
claim, now prove it.
\_ what a stupid red herring. The issue is that
the death penalty is known to execute
innocents; why do you support it, knowing
that is the case? -tom
\_ Don't they execute the mentally retarded in Texas now?
\_ Obviously not, Bush became governor of that state.
\_ Actually, Clinton did that in Arkansas.
\_ If you're going to level a serious charge, post URL.
\_ From http://amnesty.org.uk, http://csua.org/u/a62
under the title "Mental Retardation And The
Death Penalty",
"The second case is that of Rickey Ray Rector,
a black man executed in Arkansas during the 1992
presidential campaign of then Governor Bill
Clinton. Rector had shot himself at the time of
his arrest and had sustained organic brain damage
that reduced his intellectual capacity
dramatically." Not only was Rector executed
during Clinton's term as governer, Clinton
personally "flew home to oversee the 1992
execution". http://Time.com, http://csua.org/u/a63 .
\_ Maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture, but
sounds like the guy commited the criminal acts
while still capable of making an informed
decsision. I don't understand clearly how
this would affect the case. Any motd armchair
criminal lawyer people care comment?
\_ No where in the article is there anything about parental consent.
If doctors start euthenizing horribly ill babies without parental
consent, I'd be more worried.
\_ the state is your parent
\_ The 7th paragraph: "The guideline says euthanasia is acceptable
when ......, and when parents think it's best."
\_ http://tinyurl.com/47ub2
\_ How is this "High Stress Levels Linked to Cellular Aging" article
relevant to this thread? |
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| csua.org/u/a5n -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20041130/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_child_euthanasia Top Stories - AP By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A hospital in the Netherlands the first nation to permit euthanasia recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives. AP Photo The announcement by the Groningen Academic Hospital came amid a growing d iscussion in Holland on whether to legalize euthanasia on people incapab le of deciding for themselves whether they want to end their lives a p rospect viewed with horror by euthanasia opponents and as a natural evol ution by advocates. In August, the main Dutch doctors' association KNMG urged the Health Mini stry to create an independent board to review euthanasia cases for termi nally ill people "with no free will," including children, the severely m entally retarded and people left in an irreversible coma after an accide nt. The Health Ministry is preparing its response, which could come as soon a s December, a spokesman said. Three years ago, the Dutch parliament made it legal for doctors to inject a sedative and a lethal dose of muscle relaxant at the request of adult patients suffering great pain with no hope of relief. The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital's guidelines have come to be know n, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable diseas e or extreme deformities. The guideline says euthanasia is acceptable when the child's medical team and independent doctors agree the pain cannot be eased and there is no prospect for improvement, and when parents think it's best. Examples include extremely premature births, where children suffer brain damage from bleeding and convulsions; and diseases where a child could o nly survive on life support for the rest of its life, such as severe cas es of spina bifida and epidermosis bullosa, a rare blistering illness. The hospital revealed last month it carried out four such mercy killings in 2003, and reported all cases to government prosecutors. There have be en no legal proceedings against the hospital or the doctors. web sites) h ave reacted with outrage to the announcement, and US euthanasia oppone nts contend the proposal shows the Dutch have lost their moral compass. "The slippery slope in the Netherlands has descended already into a verti cal cliff," said Wesley J Smith, a prominent California-based critic, i n an e-mail to The Associated Press. Experts say doctors outside Holland do not report cases for fear of prosecution. "As things are, people are doing this secretly and that's wrong," said Ed uard Verhagen, head of Groningen's children's clinic. "In the Netherland s we want to expose everything, to let everything be subjected to vettin g" According to the Justice Ministry, four cases of child euthanasia were re ported to prosecutors in 2003. Two were reported in 2002, seven in 2001 and five in 2000. All the cases in 2003 were reported by Groningen, but some of the cases in other years were from other hospitals. Groningen estimated the protocol would be applicable in about 10 cases pe r year in the Netherlands, a country of 16 million people. Since the introduction of the Dutch law, Belgium has also legalized eutha nasia, while in France, legislation to allow doctor-assisted suicide is currently under debate. In the United States, the state of Oregon is alo ne in allowing physician-assisted suicide, but this is under constant le gal challenge. However, experts acknowledge that doctors euthanize routinely in the Unit ed States and elsewhere, but that the practice is hidden. "Measures that might marginally extend a child's life by minutes or hours or days or weeks are stopped. Instead, people talk about things they're not going to do." More than half of all deaths occur under medical supervision, so it's rea lly about management and method of death, Stell said. The informati on contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewr itten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associ ated Press. |
| csua.com/?entry=13449 scid=12&did=167 I was pro to ambivalent on the death penalty. I happened across the link below and it makes a compelling argument against it. However it seems like they have noticed this same correlation in many places. However it seems like they have noticed this same correlation in many places. Overall, I don't think you can that death penalty does not cause higher crime rates. There are people in this world who deserves the death penalty and nothing less. I don't accept these as evidence that death penalty is not a crime deterrent, because these do not show that death penalty does not cause higher crime rates. In fact, it seems quite intuitive that death penalty WOULD serve as a deterrent, which is all the more reason to look very carefully at how this data could come to be. Your intuition is irrelevant, especially since it is contradicted by all kinds of criminology research about why people do or do not observe the laws (not just relating to the death penalty). You are implying that killing people is always wrong, which is not a self-evident truth. If you have some relevant research to share about why death penalty is in fact not a cause for lower crime rates, please do speak up, post links, etc. Saarp's links are interesting, but don't qualify for reasons I stated already. I'd have thought the burden of proof would be on those who want to kill people. Otherwise no, because killing in self-defense, for instance, may be ok. And I find it particularly mystifying that someone who purports to believe in small government would support such an expensive (not to mention morally bankrupt) policy, with no evidence that it is effective, just because it happens to be "existing law." It is true that the death penalty introduces a dilemma alluded to below regarding innocents dying vs guilty going free. I don't have a satisfying argument to it, nor does anyone else. If you believe no murderer should die for his crimes, I claim your belief is immoral. If you disagree, then we have a morality clash, and in a democracy it is resolved by the majority. If you don't like democracy, like me, help me think of something better, otherwise buck up and live with it. Regarding my libertarianism, I don't think running prisons really needs to be as expensive as it is. Also, unlike anarchists, I am prepared to spend money to maintain human \_ So on the question of evidence, you reject copious evidence that the death penalty does not act as a deterrent because it is not 100% solid proof, while offering absolutely no evidence of the contrary. And then you use the "we're a democracy, so the majority rule" cop out, which could just as easily be used to avoid a rational debate of what is sensible public policy on any other issue as well. how about splatting goat blood around and making pleasing barbequeues for the Lord? You don't need to see something in front of your nose for it to be a deterrent. Death penalty cases require tons of extra police and legal work. did=108&scid=7 -tom \_ It costs about $20k/year per prisoner in a non-death row situation in CA. I'm guessing it costs more to hold someone on death row but probably not too much more. If some clown is in prison for 50 years, thats 1 million bucks. It's likely that after multiple appeals, court costs, etc, that executing someone is more costly. However, I don't think justice should be based on raw bean counting. If society has determined that death is the right punishment for some crime *and* the trial, etc, was fair/just, then execution is the correct punishment IMHO even if the raw dollar value cost is higher to do so. I just don't have faith in the system as it stands to try each case fairly and with the greatest possible scrutiny. It would help if the prosecution could go for the death penalty but then have that turned down in favor of life w/o parole if the jury so decided. Executing murderers does not bother me or give me the warm fuzzies. The problem is that there is no way to make sure the person you're executing is actually guilty, so it's inevitable you will execute innocent people. To me, that is much worse, as it is a premeditated, state-sanctioned murder. I think it's much better to let a thousand murderers escape execution than for the state to murder one innocent person. To me, the need of the many outweighs the needs of the few/one. To save the 1 that may be wrongly executed, we run the risk of letting free hundreds of committed murders who will not hesitate to go out and murder more innocent lives. What do you say to those people who will be killed by those convicted murderers? You can say they will never get out, just like I can say we will never make a mistake. If they're innocent, they can work to exhonorate themselves and in any case, jailing an innocent person is better than killing them. But, if the person succeeds in killing you, then too bad, even in the worst scenario, he will still be able to eat, breath, walk, and exercise, for the rest of his long life while you decay into nothingness? It's a tough world out there, you shouldn't get yourself killed in the first place. And you shouldn't trust the state to do justice for you either. The three reasons I am/was for it are: 1) Convict can't escape/be released from prison if he's dead 2) Family doesn't have to deal with media interviews in prison with the convice if he's dead. VH1's music behind bars was part of #2, and there are various examples for #3. However, with "life without parole" as an option, I can't really be behind the death penalty anymore (with the exception for terrorists, oh and mass murderers). You are saying we abandon death penalty, except when we are really pissed about someone, we make an exception. If you support this, then you actually do support the death penalty. Pol Pot, if he had been captured alive would have been another. I admire the Peruvians for not executing Guzman, but I think they should have. I think things would be much more orderly under fascism. scid=12&did=167 The South accounts for 82% of all executions since 1976; Four new studies on deterrence throw further doubt that there is any deterrent effect fr om sentencing people to death or executing people for homicide. The stud ies did find support for a brutalization effect. Authors John Sorenson, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart examined executions in Texas between 1984 and 1997. They speculated that if a deterrent effe ct were to exist, it would be found in Texas because of the high number of death sentences and executions within the state. Using patterns in ex ecutions across the study period and the relatively steady rate of murde rs in Texas, the authors found no evidence of a deterrent effect. The st udy concluded that the number of executions was unrelated to murder rate s in general, and that the number of executions was unrelated to felony rates. In this study, author William Bailey speculated that if execution s had a deterrent effect in Oklahoma, it would be observable by comparin g murder rates and rates of sub-types of murder, such as felony-murder, stranger robbery-related killings, stranger non-felony murder, and argum ent-related killings, before and after the resumption of executions. Bai ley examined the period between 1989 and 1991 for total killings and sub -types of killing. After controlling for a number of variables, Bailey f ound that there was no evidence for a deterrent effect. He did, however, find that there was a significant increase in stranger killings and non -felony stranger killings after Oklahoma resumed executions after a 25-y ear moratorium. Author Ernie Thompson examined criminal homicides in Los Angeles before and after Californias execution of Robert Harris in 1992 , the states first execution after a 25-year moratorium. Thompson found slight increases in homicides during the eight months following the exec ution. Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood studied differences in homicid es and violent crime in 293 pairs of counties. Counties were matched in pairs based on geographic location, regional context, historical develop ment, demographic and economic variables. The pairs shared a conti... |
| csua.org/u/a62 -> www.amnesty.org.uk/action/nw/hpn/newslet/mental.shtml This paper attempts to summarise the issues arising from the practice of executing prisoners who have mental retardation. It draws mainly on the US experience but makes reference to other jurisdictions. The following three vignettes from the USA illustrate some of the issues arising from a discussion of mental retardation and the death penalty and help us und erstand the terminology of the discussion. In August 1998, Anthony Porter's Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was measured at 51. This would have made him the most sev erely mentally retarded inmate to be put to death in the USA since execu tions resumed there in 1977. However, two days before the scheduled exec ution date, the Illinois Supreme Court ordered a stay to allow investiga tion of his mental state. Porter's life was saved by journalism students from Northwestern University who obtained evidence pointing to the guil t of another man^ 3 The second case is that of Rickey Ray Rector, a black man executed in Ark ansas during the 1992 presidential campaign of then Governor Bill Clinto n Rector had shot himself at the time of his arrest and had sustained o rganic brain damage that reduced his intellectual capacity dramatically. He is reported to have spoken of deferring eating part of his last meal until "later" - after the execution. The third case is that of Jay Scott, a black man executed in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shortly after 9pm on 14 June 2001. In recent weeks he had twice come within minutes of execution before stays were g ranted. He was sentenced to death in 1984 for a murder carried out durin g an attempted robbery in Cleveland in May 1983. Jay Scott had been diag nosed as suffering from schizophrenia. He had exhibited severe symptoms of mental illness in recent years. Scott received visits from family mem bers on his last day and, at one point, reportedly told relatives that h e was "looking forward to the basketball game", apparently referring to a match due to be played the day following his execution. These three cases illustrate three forms of mental disability which have been a focus for those working for reform of the death penalty. Definitions Anthony Porter showed signs of mental retardation. He suffered from a dev elopmental disorder which manifested itself though his childhood and ado lescence and was marked by low IQ and low adaptive skills. Rickey Ray Re ctor also had difficulties with adaptive functioning. However, his devel opment through his childhood and adulthood were apparently unexceptional and his mental deficit arose at the time of the self-inflicted shooting which caused organic brain damage. Jay Scott was suffering from schizophrenia, a mental illness marked by ch aracteristic disturbances of thinking, perception, emotion and behaviour , but which is often amenable to medical treatment. It is unrelated to m ental development and intelligence. It is thus conceptually different fr om mental retardation or organic brain damage. There is a widely observed principle of sparing from execution those who are "insane" (to use the legal term) - at the time of the crime or of th e execution. However, both in the U SA and elsewhere, the mentally ill can be sentenced to death and execute d^ 6 However this paper is about those who have learning disabilities or handi caps - mental retardation, in the terminology used in US jurisprudence - and additional people who have had a normal developmental profile but w ho acquired organic brain damage and whose intellectual capacities mimic those of people with mental retardation^ 7 Vulnerability of the mentally retarded The mentally retarded have multiple vulnerabilities which can mean that w hen they enter the justice system they are dealt with less sensitively a nd with a worse outcome than able-minded people. These included waiving rights as a suspect (and, for example, answering police questions in the absence of a lawyer or adviser), risks of coerced answers or behaviour being perce ived by courts as having been "voluntary", the risk of false confessions , and the risk of having unchecked ineffective assistance from a lawyer. In murder cases involving mentally retarded and mentally able defendant s, the mentally disabled defendant lacks the insight and skills to plea- bargain or otherwise negotiate a non-capital sentence while the mentally able prisoner avoids the death penalty. As Human Rights Watch noted, "They may act in ways that seem suspicious, even when they have done noth ing wrong. The case of David Vasquez, a man who co nfessed in 1984 to a crime he did not commit, illustrates this. While be ing interviewed about the strangulation of a woman, he responded to poli ce leading questions by progressively accepting that he did not use rope s, he did not use his belt, he did not use the clothesline. Even when le d to "admit" he used the Venetian blind cord he responded, "She told me to grab the knife, and, and, stab her, that's all". The police expressed exasperation and told him that he had hung the victim. The EU has contributed an amicus curiae brief in the case of McCarver (see below) in which it argues that executing the mentally disabled is contrary to international standards. Two recent cases have led to optimism that change in US practice is immin ent. More significantly, the appeal of Ernest McCarver, on death row in North Carolina, will seek to establish in the Supreme Court later in 2001 that executing the mentally retarded is unconstitutional. Su pporting his argument will be briefs from the EU (see above) and former US diplomats who argue, among other things, that executing the mentally disordered damages the international standing of the USA. Th e lack of explicit evidence that mentally retarded offenders are execute d in most retentionist countries does not indicate that such executions do not happen. In the USA, eviden ce suggests that mental retardation is not, in practice, a bar to execut ion. However the climate is changing and it remains to be seen if the Su preme Court perceives and reflects that change in their decision in the appeal of Ernest McCarver. Politically, the reason for concession of small reforms of the death pena lty is unlikely to indicate a desire or willingness on the part of legis lators to move towards abolition. It is, rather, a concession at the per imeter to protect the central principle of capital punishment. While all restrictions on the death penalty are to be welcomed, the ending of the execution of the mentally retarded needs to be followed by measures lea ding to abolition of this cruel punishment. in collaboration with Amnesty Interna tional French Section, Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits d e l'Homme, Penal Reform International, Hands Off Cain, Sant'Egidio Commu nity, and with the support of the Council of Europe and the European Par liament. htm 2 In the USA the term "mental retardation" is widely used in legal discus sion. Elsewhere terms such as "mental handicap", "intellectual disabilit y", "learning disorder" and variations of these are used. In this paper, I use "mental retardation" as it is the expression frequently encounter ed in the literature of the death penalty. Increasingly the concept of "dimini shed responsibility" is being used in courts. He never denied t he crimes for which he was sentenced but always claimed that they were t he result of his mental illness. His mother maintained that she had atte mpted, unsuccessfully, to get him appropriately treated by the state bef ore he turned violent (AI. Thomas Provenzano, executed in Florida in June 2000, had a history of serious mental illness, including parano id schizophrenia. On 20 June, with needles already attached to his body, he was granted a stay of execution 11 minutes before he was scheduled t o be put to death. In Yemen, Hussein bin Hussein Al-Mamari's, who has been diagnosed in th e past as suffering from schizophrenia, was sentenced to death for murde r in December 1998. The verdict and sentence were upheld by the Appeal C ourt in September 2000 and by the Supreme Court in mid-2001. The courts ruled that there was no evidence adduced to show that the convi... |
| csua.org/u/a63 -> www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,52285,00.html Two inmates are scheduled to die by lethal injection one of whom, Oliv er David Cruz, has repeatedly tested below the threshold for mental reta rdation and Governor George W Bush will not be there. In the wake of the Gary Graham execution, which garnered significant inte rnational media attention, Bush may be quite pleased to relinquish contr ol over these cases; with the governor on the national campaign trail, t he responsibility for passing final review falls to Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry. Unfortunately for Bush, the long-term legal and moral questi ons (should mentally retarded inmates be exempt from capital punishment? Oliver David Cruz, whose IQ has been variously measured at 83 and 63 be low 70 being the generally accepted threshold for mental retardation h as become a focal point for yet another emotional debate over Texas's ex ecution practices. Cruz was convicted 12 years ago of the rape and stabb ing murder of 24-year-old Kelly Donovan, an Air Force linguist in San An tonio. Cruz has confessed, and, his advocates argue, shows anguished rem orse. His is not, however, the kind of remorse one might expect from an adult, Cruz's lawyers insist. Cruz's comprehension of his crime and the implications of his actions are childlike, similar to the reaction of a five-year-old who knocks over a glass of milk and has no idea he's done something wrong until his parents scold him and reduce him to tears. Cruz's lawyers hope to establish that their client's mental limitations w ere not adequately addressed during his trial; prosecutors insist that s tate-sponsored IQ tests, which placed Cruz well above the 70-point IQ ma rk, show Cruz to have the capacity to distinguish right from wrong. They don't have much time, or much reason to hope: Republican presidentia l nominee Governor George W Bush, who has had more executions during hi s five-year tenure in Austin than any other governor in the nation since capital punishment was reinstated, has made his support for executing m entally retarded inmates clear. In 1995, the newly minted governor rejec ted a clemency plea from lawyers for Mario Marquez, a mentally retarded adult whose verbal and reasoning skills were comparable to those of a 7- year-old child. Since then, Governor Bush has upheld his position, refusing to take menta l capacity into account when reviewing last-minute pleas. The Texas Boar d of Paroles, the only body in the state with the authority to grant ful l-out clemency, voted unanimously to refuse Cruz's requests. Cruz's chances for an appeal are diminishing by the minute: Under Texas l aw, Perry can grant Cruz a one-time, 30-day reprieve a cushion of time that might allow Cruz's lawyers to pursue their appeals to the US Sup reme Court, which ruled in 1998 that capital punishment for retarded inm ates was not "cruel and unusual punishment." Bush, who has effectively washed his hands of Cruz's case, may yet be haunted by the questions raised by the pendin g execution. Just as Bill Clinton showed himself to be "a new Democrat" when he bared his law enforcement chops and flew home to oversee the 199 2 execution of brain-damaged Arkansas inmate Rickey Ray Rector, George W . Bush is currently confronted with an opportunity to demonstrate his co mpassion by stepping in and granting Cruz a reprieve. If he doesn't an d all indicators say he won't he may be answering questions about this case long after the November elections have come and gone. |
| tinyurl.com/47ub2 -> www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0005525A-9A84-11AB-9A8483414B7F0000&ref=rdf Stress may take a toll on your health by affecting the strands of DNA on the ends of chromosomes, new research suggests. A report published onlin e today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that women with higher psychological stress levels have shorter telomer es, which play an important role in cellular aging. What is more, the di fference between stressed study participants and the control group was e quivalent to nearly a decade of additional aging. Telomeres, chromosomal caps that promote genetic stability, naturally sho rten with each cellular replication: shorter telomeres are associated wi th greater biological age. In the new work, Elissa S Epel of the Univer sity of California at San Francisco and her colleagues studied healthy p remenopausal women to investigate the link between psychological stress and telomere shortening. For the high-stress group, the researchers recr uited 39 mothers of chronically ill children and compared them to contro l women who had healthy children. In a questionnaire, mothers with sick children reported that they were more stressed compared to mothers with healthy children. When the scientists obtained cell samples and compared stress levels to telomere length, they found correlations between the l ength of caregiving (and thus stress levels) and cellular aging. Accordi ng to the report, women who felt more stressed had cells with shorter te lomeres, lower levels of the associated enzyme telomerase, and greater l evels of oxidative stress. "The new findings suggest a cellular mechanism for how chronic stress may cause premature onset of disease," Epel says. "Chronic stress appears t o have the potential to shorten the life of cells, at least immune cells ." The team plans to continue its investigation of the connection betwee n stress and telomere length with a long-term study that repeatedly meas ures the variables over time instead of taking a single snapshot. In add ition, the researchers intend to try to determine whether prolonged stre ss impacts telomeres in other types of cells, such as those that line th e cardiovascular system. |
| amnesty.org A young protestor demands that the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal be cleaned up. Maude Dorr Twenty years on, the Bhopal plant continues to ruin the lives of the surr ounding communities. The effects of the leak and the contaminated enviro nment continue seriously to affect people's basic human rights. According to testimoniesfrom refugees, helicopters have been used to support the Janjawid militi as in attacks against villages. Sudan in crisis Arms supplies must be stopped from reaching all the parties to the Darfur conflict until effective safeguards are in place to protect civilians f rom grave human rights abuses. DRC: Help the healing begin Armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have raped tens of thousands of women, in systematic attacks marked by extreme brutality . Between 10 - 12 December 2004, thousands of human rights activists around the world will take part in Amnesty International's global letter-writi ng marathon. Make Europe and Central Asia a Death Penalty - Free Zone Belarus and Uzbekistan are the only countries in Europe and Central Asia still carrying out executions. International justice The 20th century was perhaps the bloodiest in history. Millions of people were victims of crimes against humanity. |
| Time.com -> www.time.com/time/ Blowing a Gasket More than 65 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, and that number is sure to rise. But before the Web, mail-order shop ping was a breakthrough, releasing consumers from the grip of the mall, as this TIME cover illustrates. Kofi Annan Martha Stewart George Bush Boston Red Sox Let us know by voting on your cell phone. The results will be out in the issue dated December 20th. |