The Basel Committee, founded in 1975 by the rich G10 countries (plus Luxembourg), was given a larger role, and undertook to bring the different national systems of capital-adequacy regulation closer together.In 1988 an accord was reached.
In this respect, the Thanksgiving pardon is an acknowledgment of the arbitrariness of the system of capital punishment.
There is no argument in favor of maintaining a barbaric, arbitrary and expensive system of capital punishment.
It's time to shut down the state's immoral, barbaric and broken system of capital punishment.
Its system of capital punishment, which has changed little since Soviet days, has been criticized as barbaric.
With Judge Carney's ruling, the state's system of capital punishment has been judged doubly infirm.
Counties get a virtually bankrupt state to pick up a fat tab and "to maintain a very expensive and dysfunctional system of capital punishment," Mrs. Bienen wrote.
And the prestigious American Law Institute, which devised the framework for the modern system of capital punishment, recently abandoned the whole project "in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment".
Illinois has tried mightily to deal with a system of capital punishment that had, as The Chicago Tribune described it, "one of the worst records of wrongful capital convictions in the country".
He said that he and a majority of his colleagues on the court had struggled unsuccessfully for more than 20 years to bring an acceptable level of fairness to the system of capital punishment.
This dispersal of moral responsibility is a curious feature of our system of capital punishment: the message is that the state is doing the killing, and therefore no individual is culpable for the death.
