Uzbekistan abolishes the death penalty

Amnesty International has documented countless egregious human rights violations in Uzbekistan.

However, Uzbekistan is ahead of the U.S. in one human rights area: On January 1, Uzbekistan abolished the death penalty in that country.

Here at home, 36 states in the U.S. still engage in state-sanctioned killing of prisoners using citizens' tax dollars. So do the U.S. government and the U.S. military.

So, in that sense, we are less civilized than Uzbekistan.