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Charles Lane on the Lethal Injection Drug Shortage

By Steve Hall

The Washington Post writer posts, "Europe's dangerous death penalty gesture," to the Post's PostPartisan blog. According to political stereotypes, Europeans are worldly, realistic moral relativists while Americans, with our "exceptionalism" and periodic crusades to democratize the world, are comparatively idealistic. On one issue, though, the roles are reversed. America retains the death penalty, with all of its gloomy assumptions about human nature and grim moral trade-offs. Europe, by contrast, views it as immoral per se, a violation of human rights and basic human dignity. No country that practices capital punishment can be a member of the European Union. I don't happen to agree that the issue is quite so black and white, and even wrote a small book to explain why...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).