Cities for Life Day

2017-11-30

The death penalty is execution imposed on someone who has convicted a capital crime in the jurisdiction passing sentence. I am more ambivalent toward it's implementation than I was a decade ago — when I was pro to the nth degree.

The extreme nature of execution as a judicial punishment juxtaposed to the botched executions which sometimes occur have lent credence to it's abolition by many on the Earth.

However, it remains in various forms as that ultimate price to be paid for what are supposed to be the most heinous of crimes. Some places list drug trafficking right on up there with mass murder and it is carried out for nonviolent as well as violent crimes on the books of those nations which impose it upon their citizens and others who happen to be apprehended there.

Today is Cities for Life Day. It is a worldwide observance supporting the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 each year and is one of those things countries like to point out as being on the "civilized" end of a scale listing countries having the death penalty viz a viz those which have abolished it.