The world's five leading death penalty implementers

Four of them are not at all democratic. The fifth proclaims itself as the world's leading democracy.

Troy Davis executed yesterday. Discarding the merits of his case, how can the world's leading democracy keep such company?

* China killed up to 5 000 last year
* Iran more than 250
* North Korea more than 60
* Yemen more than 50
* The US 46

Great company the US keeps.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty