Palestinian Authority executes convicted murderers.
The Palestinian Authority carried out its first executions since 2002 yesterday, killing four convicted murderers as part of a new campaign to rein in lawlessness and chaos, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said… Three of the men were hanged and one was shot by a firing squad.
There’s no shortage of Europeans ready to criticize Iran, China, Japan, and the US when it comes to executions. And considering that the US death penalty comes complete with a multi-million dollar, double digit year appeals process, I look forward to European condemnations of the Palestinian authority for this execution, carried out just weeks after the men were convicted in late May.
(My guess—without reference to the aforelinked Grabic and without intention to pick on him—is that most Europeans, if they bother to notice this incident at all, will fault Israel/the Jews/the Zionists.)

Comments to this entry
Joe
June 13, 2005
12:20 pm
Martey
June 13, 2005
6:40 pm
Grendel
June 24, 2005
7:32 am
Grabic is my last name. ;-)
As for the executions, I clearly stated "my position":http://grabic.blogspot.com/2005/06/death-penalty-in-japan.html to the death penalty. It doesn't matter which nation/state/group performs it.
By the way, I'm still curious whether you can back your statement about the increasing crime rate in Europe because of the abolition of the death penalty with numbers. Chances are, you can't, I but I thought I ask anyway...
heirabbit
June 24, 2005
11:05 am