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How many other victims will capital punishment create in the United States before we become aware of the inhumane character of a punishment incompatible with modern society?

Taking the life of a captive, unarmed and defenseless person is barbaric, regardless of what he or she has done.

We, the fifty-plus generation, don’t want to hear that sad 1963 song ever again: <br />'And when I got to America, I say it blew my mind.'

The selected victims haven't received that which marks a state governed by law: a trial, a defense attorney and a sentence. Instead, it's the CIA that establishes a death list, which is then approved by President Obama. With that the president becomes nearly all-powerful as a court of law, jury and executioner.

The U.S. has just shown that one can be many. It is now up to us, the rest of the world, to demonstrate that this is also possible outside the U.S.

[I]t is foreseeable that after the Tuesday primary, Trump will praise his party’s tremendous unity.