The "old world" already made a statement: we denied Turkey to become a member of the EU because of the death penality. True, it's not the only point for rejection, but it was a major along torture and discrimination of women.

From my personal point of view: the death penality is wrong in every sense. Every (minister||priest||rabbie) will tell you that only God may give/take life. Keeping religion aside, how should anyone justify death penality? "Eye for an eye"? That's not quite civilised.

^{Please excuse any spelling errors, I'm to tired to be sure my english is correct.}