Jim Bennett has a follow-up email that points out that more than four out of five Brits would like to see the death penalty restored. While the numbers aren’t as high, I’ve seen polls in the other EU countries that indicate that this is a majority opinion there as well.

I assume that the UK and those other places are all examples of those “world’s major democracies” to which the previous post was referring, but as Jim points out, we seem to do a much better job of actually implementing the will of the people over here.