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Lining up against the death penalty - International Herald Tribune
by ubernoir at 7:49 am EST, Dec 21, 2007

The UN General Assembly voted on Tuesday for a global moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution was nonbinding; its symbolic weight made barely a ripple in the news ocean of the United States, where the rights of governments to kill a killer is enshrined in law and custom.
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The United States, as usual, lined up on the other side, with Iran, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iraq.

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