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For example, rather than relying on household surveys every few years to calculate the mortality rate, systems of civil registration and vital statistics can collect mortality data in real time, with the added benefit of information on cause of
death.
And, while Spain is a relatively young democracy, it is also a mature one, having endured many challenges in the 42 years since the
death
of the dictator Francisco Franco.
Bin Laden’s GhostLONDON – Osama bin Laden’s
death
in his Pakistani hiding place is like the removal of a tumor from the Muslim world.
Fortunately, Bin Laden’s
death
comes at the very moment when much of the Islamic world is being convulsed by the treatment that Bin Laden’s brand of fanaticism requires: the Arab Spring, with its demands for democratic empowerment (and the absence of demands, at least so far, for the type of Islamic rule that Al Qaeda sought to impose).
Indeed, Bin Laden’s
death
should open the international community’s eyes to the source of his movement: repressive Arab regimes and their extremist ideologies.
Russia does the same, inflicting
death
on Ukraine, Georgia, and other neighbors.
It is also, literally, a matter of life and
death
if women and girls are not empowered to participate fully in disaster management and planning.
The official
death
toll worldwide from H1N1 is under 14,000, while seasonal flu kills about 36,000 on average in the United States and hundreds of thousands elsewhere.
In particular, higher tobacco taxes yield a double benefit: they reduce smoking, a leading cause of adult death, and raise revenue.
And it has intensified the domestic debate over the
death
penalty.
But my position is based on ample evidence that the
death
penalty does not actually deter the crimes it punishes.
Data collected by the
Death
Penalty Project at Delhi’s National Law University demonstrate conclusively that there is no statistical correlation between applying the
death
penalty and preventing murder.
The Supreme Court has declared that the
death
penalty should be applied only in the “rarest of the rare” cases.
Indeed, whether the
death
penalty is meted out depends on a number of variables, beginning with judicial and social biases.
A 1983 case held that one way to determine whether a crime meets the “rarest of the rare” requirement is whether the community’s “collective conscience” has been “so shocked” that it expects those wielding judicial power to inflict the
death
penalty, regardless of their personal opinions.
From 2010 to 2013, 436
death
sentences were handed down by lower courts.
As for the
death
sentences that have already been carried out – two in that four-year period – it is impossible to ascertain the objective criteria that made the crimes in question more heinous or “rarer” than those that did not merit execution.
Ambiguity and subjectivity have no place in matters of life and
death.
Just a couple of weeks before Memon’s execution, India’s Law Commission, a government body composed of retired judges and legal experts that works for legal reform, organized consultations to assess the effectiveness of the provisions governing the
death
penalty in India and the purpose of the penalty itself.
Unsurprisingly, based on the evidence and the opinions presented at the Law Commission’s hearings, there was a general consensus that the courts are unable to adopt a fair and non-discriminatory approach to the
death
penalty, and support for its abolition was overwhelming.
The Indian public overwhelmingly supports the
death
penalty, especially for convicted terrorists.
Moreover, it has been suggested that the alternative to the
death
penalty – life imprisonment – would make India vulnerable to hijackings and other assaults by terrorist groups attempting to free their jailed comrades.
More than 130 countries have abolished the
death
penalty.
For now, India remains blind to the case for abolishing the
death
penalty.
But in Ghana, and in many other developing countries, family planning is a matter of life and death, especially for girls and young women.
Since 1999, when Putin first became prime minister, 34 journalists have been killed while reporting in the country, including investigative reporter Nikolai Andrushchenko, who was beaten to
death
last year in St. Petersburg.
I hope that even in the dark frame of such topics the light of the human soul and mind, its contradictions and potential, the ceaseless questions about love and death, about commitment and cowardice, about solitude and solidarity, about the tragicomedy of humans reveal, for better or worse, the imprint of the author.
Heidegger made the knowledge of
death
key to the understanding of what it means to live.
The experience of beauty is closely related to knowledge of
death.
For religious believers, as earlier with Plato, beauty is a foretaste of what survives
death.
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