Most of the ROW regards the death penalty as a barbaric relic of distant, more cruel times. Sort of like slavery, the US was one of the last Western countries to abandon it.

The ROW also think that a country serious about Human Rights would sign conventions regarding the rights of women and children. The US and Afghanistan are the last holdouts on that one, great company, right. (And GWB used the Taliban as a poor example of how to treat women.) They also think a country concerned with humans might also be willing to forgo Chemical and Biological Weapons the way most of ROW is, find ways to kill combatants without land mines which have a predilection for farmers and children, be against laundering of money and the proliferation of illicit small weapons. And so on. And on.

A country serious about Human Rights might not hold it’s own and other citizens indefinitely without charges or representation.

Prisoners’ limbo causes global stir

“There are practical issues for Washington, such as how the current treatment of detainees could affect the safety of U.S. personnel captured abroad. Beyond that, Human Rights Watch’s Patten suggested that the United States is failing its moral obligations as the world’s leading democracy: “The U.S. should set the gold standard in its treatment of detainees,” she said. “We must show that we can both protect our security and protect the rights and principles that we have long upheld and supported.”

But, the US continues to regard itself as the country it was before the present regime, one which had laws and a Constitution which mattered. One way to avoid those bleeding-heart liberal judges who try to enforce laws is to see that prisoners never see one.

Arf