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Death penalty
One issue that didn=t really provoke a lot of discussion in the last presidential election was the death penalty. The reason was a simple one: both the Democrats and the Republicans,along with 75% of the American public, are absolutely in favour of it. Clinton, who supposedly represents the less right-wing of the two main parties, had trouble in demonstrating his support forcapital punishment. This, it seems, was part of a well-planned strategy to capture the all important Amiddle-ground@ in American politics. And yet, in its enthusiasm for the death penalty, the UnitedStates remains strangely out of sync with other western democracies. The nations that practise capital punishment are those that many Americans would consider Aprimitive@ or even Abarbaric@. Theyinclude China, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the former Soviet Union. Even South Africa, for decades the most hated country in the world, has abolished the death penalty. This decision cameshortly after the ending of the apartheid.
Why, then, the Americans= determination to maintain the death penalty? For us, Europeans this is something that remains incomprehensible.

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