< "Citizens around the world suffer the consequences when the U.S. defaults on its responsibility to promote human rights," said William F. Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA.

That’s what we got Amnesty International USA for, to remind us how bad we are when we relax in the pleasure of our freedoms.

Anyway, nice figures, and I have no doubt the death penalty ones are pretty accurate. Not a whole lot of gray area in the claim.

What’s “torture,” though? According to what I’ve been reading, anything from not getting a full, unbroken 8 hour period of sleep each night, to physical castration comes under that heading.

Oh, well,
Dan