Now they're estimating that 100 to 105 have, and there is a fierce struggle going on right now in the UN because they're going to introduce the resolution for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty, and the United States is going ballistic behind the scenes, twisting arms. They don't want that to get to the floor. They're trying to kill it by amendments. The United States voted with China, Iran, and Iraq. Gandhi said that oppressors stop oppressing usually not for high, lofty, moral reasons but because it gets too costly.
Moral disequilibrium is the presage to change.
The United States, like any country, wants to have pride, and we stand before the world as a symbol of democracy and some of the best values on this earth. I'm not saying it's going to change overnight, but when the United States stands up before the world to call for human rights, they know they've got a vulnerable flank. That is part of the movement toward peace. Execution, Sing Sing Prison, 1890s. One of the reasons we have 82 innocent people who've come off of death row is not because of the courts' justice.