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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: [OT] Re: Black and White
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:07:23 GMT
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Richard Bos <info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> wrote:
>"John W. Kennedy" <jwkenned@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>> Marco Thorek wrote:
>> > But the US has the death penalty and the maximum in all European
>> > countries is a life sentence.
>> An artifact of the last 50 years only.
>Not true everywhere. In the Netherlands the death penalty was abolished
>in 1870, except for war crimes. Right now, it's been abolished in
>martial law as well. I don't suppose we're the only ones to have
>abolished it that long ago, either.

Very few countries lack the death penalty for foreigners who won't
play by the same rules; that penalty being hidden under the guise
of something called "war".  Can we just consider this topic a
hot-button one that can flood any and all newsgroups (much like,
say, abortion) and move along?

SeanB
