DEATH PENALTY
According to Amnesty International, 68 countries and regions continue to apply the death penalty. In 2005, 2,148 people were executed in 22 countries (including minors and people suffering from mental illnesses). While almost 80% of these executions took place in China, it is suspected that the true figures are much higher. China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA are responsible for 94% of all world executions.
It is extremely difficult not to see application of the death penalty as a repertoire of perversions of the application of justice, from vengeance to the policy of totalitarian dissuasion.
The death penalty is simply a planned end to the very first right, the right to life, without being able to adduce it to any of the extenuating circumstances of legitimate defence established by law.