If you can forget about your narcism for a minute, some numbers:

[neweurope]

The countries with the most executions in the year 2007:

China 470
Iran 317
Saudi-Arabia 143
Pakistan 135
USA 42
Iraq 33
Vietnam 25
Yemen 15
Afghanistan 15
Libya 9

Fine company you're in...



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[patrice]

1. China looks real scarey and they OWN us.

We need some proportionality here. How do those numbers translate into %s?

[RB TexLa]

12. Here you go

People's Republic of China 1,323,249,000

Iran 71,208,000

Saudi Arabia 24,735,000

Pakistan 163,035,000

United States 303,855,000

Iraq 28,993,000

Vietnam 87,375,000

Yemen 22,389,000

Afghanistan 27,145,000

Liberia 3,750,000

[Jed Dilligan]

25. Here they are sorted by executions per million people

Saudi Arabia 5.781281585
Iran 4.451746995
Libya 2.4
Iraq 1.138205774
Pakistan 0.828043058
Yemen 0.669971861
Afghanistan 0.552587954
China 0.355186363
Vietnam 0.286123033
USA 0.138223824

[Turbineguy]

16. So maybe the Bush cabal

should be sent to China for trial?:evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

2. We're number 5! We're number 5!

I couldn't resist

OK. I could

I didn't want to

[old mark]

9. "Americans love a winner and cannot abide a loser".

Let's all try hard to push our country into first place where we rightfully belong.Maybe adopt some of the death penalty laws from Texas as national policy....
mark

[Solly Mack]

10. You go first

again

couldn't resist...and I really mean that

[devilgrrl]

3. Our "narcissism"?

Sure, I'll get off of it for a minute, as soon as YOU get off your high horse.

[Vanje]

18. Our "narcism"

Maybe the OP is refering to those of us who may have drug habits.

[Karenina]

20. Non-native speaker.

Carry on.

[neweurope]

27. Narcissism

describes the character trait of self love, based on self-image or ego.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism

Not that it would bother me if I as a non native speaker make mistakes.

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[mainegreen]

4. Look! One western country and a bunch of backwards or oppressive states!

Yay!

[Echo In Light]

13. Why...who-da-thunk-it, eh?

[dysfunctional press]

26. don't forget the fundy religious crazies, be it islamic or our domestic brand of pseudochristianity.

nt

[SteinbachMB]

5. No surprise.

The top 4 are ruled by idiots. I pity the poor people who have to live there.

[devilgrrl]

7. And #5? What would consider the ruler of that nation?

huh? troll.

[SteinbachMB]

8. Hey

...I'm Canadian, so I leave that kind of thing to Americans, generally. And this wasn't about Bush, specifically.


Okay?

[Dogtown]

17. Residing under a Canadian bridge

perhaps.

And with an insatiable hunger for
goatmeat...

[DS1]

6. Looking at the huge drop-off from Pakistan to the US, and comparing total population

counts I'd say we're not doing that bad.

[didact]

11. I'm hoping with a strong draft, and the upcoming coaching change we can pull into first!

We need to take 'em one game at a time...ya know?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. If you take the population of each country and figure the % executed, wouldn't the USA move up to

second place?

[RB TexLa]

15. Nope, Iran and Saudi Arabia are going to be in the top two slots, see #12

[Greyhound]

19. So when expressed as a percentage of population is goes like this;

Saudi Arabia 0.00000578
Iran 0.00000445
Iraq 0.00000114
Pakistan 0.000000828
Yemen 0.00000067
Afghanistan 0.0000005526
China 0.000000355
Vietnam 0.000000286
USA 0.000000138
Libya 0.000000024*

*Used the numbers given so Libya may be Liberia or the numbers are unrelated.

Viewed on a map, the top six show that this looks like a regional issue.

In spite of Iran's best efforts, Saudi Arabia is still killing more of the people they have than anybody else, using "the law" as excuse.

As for the also-rans, China and the US have little hope of prevailing over the others, due to the sher size of their populations, but the smart money is on Vietnam, with their relatively small numbers and highly authoritarian rulers, climbing the ranks in future years. It would seem that they are the non-Islamic world's only real hope of breaking into the top five.

[Dr. Strange]

24. And, adding Japan:

After multiplying these percentages by 10⁶:
5.78 Saudi Arabia
4.45 Iran
1.14 Iraq
0.828 Pakistan
0.67 Yemen
0.5526 Afghanistan
0.355 China
0.286 Vietnam
0.138 USA
0.024 *Libya
0.0706 Japan

Strange that the OP missed Japan, which also had nine executions in 2007. Wonder why that is?

[Indenturedebtor]

21. Here's a tip

When you'd like to change the views of others... try not starting by insulting them.

Good for you for living in Europe. :applause:

Us American Pigs will go back to staring at ourselves in the bigbig mirrors of our bigbig Cadillacs now.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

22. Mind Supplying The Breakout Of Reasons For The Executions?

I have a feeling there'd be some huge differences in the why's...

[Javaman]

23. How many of those 42 in the US were just in Texas? nt