If you could see out of my office window right now, with its depressing smoky view, thoughts of the death penalty would most likely be bubbling somewhere in your brain. Or maybe it’s just me?

Apparently a lot of Chinese bloggers are also thinking about the death penalty these days, what with international debate in the UN and around the U.S.

Not much to discuss, here. It’s the law here until it isn’t, but certainly there seems to be an international trend away from capital punishment in recent years. Why it has taken so long for the international community to get to this point, I don’t know.

The one thing that I think would be interesting would be China abolishing the death penalty, and being in line with the EU and almost all other developed countries, and at the same time you have the U.S. and a couple of rogue nations out there maintaining the policy.

Always nice to have people think that you come from a bloodthirsty nation. Gives all the American expats some street cred, right?