Mexico outlaws death penalty

Now another third-world country is showing itself to be more enlightened than the United States. Mexico has just abolished the death penalty.

From the Associated Press via the Houston Chronicle:
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The Mexican government formally abolished the last vestiges of its death penalty on Friday.

President Vicente Fox described as "historic" the publication in the official gazette of the constitutional changes, which were approved by the Mexican Congress in June and by a majority of state legislatures in the intervening months.

"Mexico shares the opinion that capital punishment is a violation of human rights," Fox said. "Today, the death penalty has been abolished."
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Meanwhile, the United States, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia account for over 80% of the executions recorded by Amnesty International.

What does that say about us?