: Not only "first world countries" have scrapped the Death penalty.
: Many African and Asian developing countries do without it aswell. (I am a South African, myself...the
death penalty was scrapped here five or six years ago.)

Of course. Sorry if I implied otherwise. I didn't mean to imply that every developing country ("the third
world" is something of an out-of-date description, i feel) is a barbaric nation. Absolutely not. (You could
say I'm intimately familiar with the abolition of the death penalty in S.A. I used to compare the racism of
the justice system and the death penalty in aparteid South Africa to that in the US. After apartheid was
demolished, and the dp abolished, I was happy to announce that the comparison was no longer valid.
;) )

Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Da