spurning Europe, Carribbean pushes death penalty

[franksolich]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/11/international/i094157S41.DTL

Hmmm.

More proof--as if there already isn't more than enough--that the world pushes in different directions, rather than constantly moving in unison:

Jamaican pastor Terrence Brown wants killers put to death — he's even offered to trade his collar for a hangman's hood to confront a crime wave that has been terrorizing his parishioners.

"If the government doesn't carry out their responsibility, you're going to have jungle justice, and that is what is growing rapidly in Jamaica and across the Caribbean," said Brown, a preacher with the evangelical Holiness Christian Church in Jamaica's Spanish Town.

Soaring crime has islanders demanding more executions, exhorting politicians to work around restrictions imposed by Europe and overwhelming international opposition that have all but ended capital punishment in the Caribbean.

In Jamaica, the beheading of a young girl and the discovery of an 11-year-old boy's dismembered body in a trash bag have increased pressure on parliament, where debate began Tuesday on whether to resume executions after 20 years.

Advocates include Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who promised quicker executions before winning office last year. He declined to say Tuesday how he would vote.....

Apparently the obstacle is that many of these Carribbean islands are still attached to strings from their colonial era, in which the original government (Britain, France) still has some say about such matters.

[Wineslob]

Time to cut the cord.

[franksolich]

Time to cut the cord.

Apparently they're doing fine with the cord; and apparently hanging is the choice of execution in many of these places.

I noticed the writer subtly tried to hide that Fidel's paradise has the highest rates of execution.  It was mentioned, but only in passing.