Europe's American obsession

Europe's chattering classes, whose hatred of America makes Maude Barlow look like Hugh Hewitt, are up in arms about the execution of "Tookie" Williams. And Glenn Greenwald - a left-leaning blogger whose attitude toward the death penalty is ambivalent at best - has had enough. Read it all.

Just how great is opposition to the death penalty over there, anyway? Greater than in America, to be sure, but not nearly as much as you'd think. (For the record, I oppose the death penalty - not because mass-murdering gang leaders don't deserve to die for their crimes, but because of the near-certainty that innocent men will be executed by the state.)

Posted by damian at December 14, 2005 12:02 PM | TrackBack