Death Row: Into the Belly of the Beast

Gandhi said, “An eye-for-an-eye leaves everyone blind.” None seem so blind toward capital punishment as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China and the U.S., the only five countries to withhold their votes from a moratorium on the death penalty. An Amnesty International investigation concluded that the death penalty in the United States is applied arbitrarily and is subject to bias based on the defendant’s race and economic status.