Death Penalty: State Assisted Suicide or ‘Kaffir Law’ Legal Matrix Lynching: If Rule of Law Free & Fair Trials R Irrelevant; Who Are the Real KKK?

Yesterday in America, two men were executed, but you will probably only have heard of one of them: Troy Davis, who was killed in the state of Georgia for the murder of a police officer. The other executed man, Lawrence Brewer, put to death in the state of Texas for murdering a black man in 1998, has barely featured in the news at all. Unlike Davis, he did not win the backing of Amnesty International and its trendy supporters. No one tweeted and retweeted their sorrow over Brewer or made a public spectacle of how heavy his execution weighed upon their hearts, as many did with Davis. No one lit candles outside the American Embassy for Brewer in full glare of photojournalists’ clicking cameras. No one wore t-shirts saying “I AM LAWRENCE BREWER”.

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In Chelsea on Saturday, a place I very rarely visit, I happened upon two young women wearing t-shirts saying: “I AM TROY DAVIS.” The sight of these girls, walking through streets packed with posh boutiques, got me thinking about the campaign to prevent the execution of Davis, which is due to take place in the US state of Georgia this evening. Is it really a practical effort to prevent the killing of a man, or is it a means for human-rights activists to advertise their decency? How much is this about having a real-world impact in Georgia and how much is it about taking part in a Shared International Experience through which one might make a public display of one’s own goodness?

B&W Perspectives on Crime & Death Penalty: “A Noose & a Stout Tree Limb” vs “State Assisted Suicide.”

Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber, referred to the Death Penalty as “State Assisted Suicide.”

“I knew I wanted this before it happened. I knew my objective was state-assisted suicide and when it happens, it's in your face, motherfuckers. You just did something you're trying to say should be illegal for medical personnel.”

Wiki:

Capital punishment or the death penalty, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). Hence, a capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head.

Capital punishment has been practiced in virtually every society, and thus can be considered to be a cultural universal or close to it, excluding those with state religious proscriptions against it. It is a matter of active controversy in various countries and states, and positions can vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. In the EU member states, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment.[1]

Today, most countries are considered by Amnesty International as abolitionists,[2] which allowed a vote on a nonbinding resolution to the UN to promote the abolition of the death penalty.[3] But more than 60% of the worldwide population live in countries where executions take place insofar as the four most populous countries in the world (the People's Republic of China, India, United States and Indonesia) apply the death penalty and are unlikely to abolish it at any time soon.