US, Zim and China want to keep death penalty

[dArKeR]

Geneva - The United States on Wednesday joined China, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe, with which it is often fiercely at odds over human rights, in opposing a call from a key United Nations body to abolish the death penalty.

But a resolution on the issue proposed by Ireland on behalf of 25 present and incoming members of the European Union with wide support from Latin America, was approved by the UN's Human Rights Commission - for the eighth year in a row.

Voting for the text, which calls on all states that use the death penalty to abolish it completely "and in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions," was 29 for and 19 against with five abstentions.

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Spoken to by God.

[JohnLocke]

1. Well, gee, shouldn't we be proud...

China, Saudi Arabia, & us. I weep for my country.