October 10th: World Day Against Death Penalty

While George W. Bush was governor of Texas, from 1995 to 2000, his execution chamber was by far the most active in the nation, killing 152 people - more than one prisoner every two weeks.

Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA; from "American Voices of Dissent" by Gabriele Zamparini and Lorenzo Meccoli (Paradigm Publishers, 2005)

"The death penalty in the United States is like a lottery system. It's more a function of race, of politics, of money than it is a function of the severity of the crime. (...) Right now it's about four countries that carry out 90 percent of the world's executions. China is by far the largest offender in this respect. And next are countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Those are the countries that carry out about 90 percent of the executions in the world today."

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