Wednesday, September 21, 2016

International execution rates

Comparative Execution Rates from my friend Del, a Marine Vietnam vet, statistician and a scientist. ~Bob
Here's another nice example of how well our news sources serve us.  I was doing some checking on which nations kill the most of their own citizens, and came across several articles that referred to the "Top Five" with death penalty polices.  China always heads the list, since they shoot an incredible number of people in the back of the head every week, and stopped issuing official figures because of the notoriety.  But various agencies with sources in China estimate at least 2000 people last year.  Other nations also have minimum estimates, like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea.  But of course who is right there on the list as the only Western nation with a high rate of executions?  You guessed it, it is the good old but still terrible USA.

Well, of course all the writers did was look at the number of executions, never referred to the populations of the countries.  Below is the result of a tiny bit of research my yours trule.

Nation
# executed
population in millions
rate/million
China 
2000
1400
14.29
United States 
28
325
0.86
Indonesia 
14
261
5.4
Pakistan 
326
194
16.8
Egypt 
22
92
2.39
Iran 
977
80
122.1
Iraq 
26
38
6.84
Saudi Arabia 
158
31
50.97
North Korea
100
24
41.67
Chad 
10
14
7.14
Somalia 
25
11
22.73

And who leads the list now?  Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Somalia, Pakistan, and China.  Who hardly rates mention?  The USA.  But people all over the world are told regularly that we are among the really murderous nations of our own people.

So much deceit, bias, manipulation, and utter irresponsibility in the media and elsewhere!


Del

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