Sunday - October 19, 2008

Iran to stop executing children.  (hmmm. not sure if we should be happy about this)

Iran to stop executing children
Iran’s judiciary has pledged to stop executing children after six were hanged this year alone.


By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor

No other country is believed to have imposed capital sentences on people under the age of 18 as frequently as Iran. These hangings, which are routinely carried out in public, have become far more common since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline government won power in 2005.

But a statement from Hossein Zabhi, the assistant attorney for judicial affairs, pledged a moratorium on the execution of children. When juveniles are convicted of the most serious offences, judges should now refrain from imposing capital sentences and instead send them to jail for life or terms of 15 years.

But the death penalty for juvenile offenders remains part of Iranian law. The judiciary appears to have decided on a unilateral moratorium.

“An end to child executions in Iran is greatly welcome but long overdue,” said Kim Manning-Cooper of Amnesty International.

“Iran has a long history of executing juvenile offenders. It is the only country in the world to have executed a child offender this year. We now urge the authorities to follow up this announcement by implementing it as soon as possible, so that we can quickly see an end to the execution of juvenile offenders.”

Amnesty International called on Iran to amend its criminal law to abolish the death penalty altogether. Some 25 children are presently believed to be awaiting sentence for crimes that could carry a capital sentence.

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Short article and doesn’t tell us what the charges are. Not that it’s our business. Under 18s doesn’t mean much either. What? 12? 17?  Then too I can’t help but see the stories and the photos of the monsters home grown here in the UK who commit all kinds of unspeakable crime.  I’d happily see those little turds hang.
So I can’t get too excited about this except that if Amnasty is in favor of something, I just naturally have to be on the other side.
If the kids mentioned in that article are anything even close to the UK brand of “juvenile” thug, I can understand and heartlessly approve.  (yeah, heartlessly)

Now then, this little headline is a job for either Christopher or Drew.  I don’t know where I’m going wrong, but when I see something that says the following,

BROWN:  I’LL CURB CAPITALISM ....  well you just know I have to blog the damn thing and share it. Right?  Well not so darn fast bunky.
No matter how I do it, no matter what words I enter into a search field, this is just one of those items that get away from me.
The headline comes from The Telegraph, and it’s pretty much the norm for that paper to make things hard to find or not at all.
Sometimes I can Google the headline and up pops the article I want.  Other times there’s some sort of pay only service and finally somebody like the two mentioned come to the rescue.  And I still haven’t a clue how they find the same thing and I can’t.  Especially when we often use the same source.

So, the author of the article is the Political Editor, Andrew Porter. Now wouldn’t think The Telegraph would have his blurb online?

Gloom and Doom ....
Just saw a headline says Colin Powell endorses Obama .... oh bloody great.  Funny thing however.  I’m not surprised but I don’t know why.

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