"Oh, but the U.S. also executes people!"

Yes, and according to Amnesty International, in 2023:

🇨🇳 > 1,000 executions
🇮🇷 > 850 executions
🇸🇦 172 executions
...
...
🇺🇸 24 executions

And there's a fundamental difference: the time between a death sentence given by a court and the execution in the U.S. is typically 21 years!

In China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, the average time is often measured in days or, in Iran's case, in hours (the sentence is given in the morning, and the condemned is executed in the afternoon).

Yesterday, Iran, the newest member of…