Significantly, the USA is the only

Wholesale Lingerie Wholesale Summer Dresses Significantly, the USA is the only country to have carried out executions in the Americas, although the numbers fell by four between 2012 and 2013 that saw 39 executions.
There were 3108 people on death row last year, with Texas accounting for 41 per cent of all executions in the country.
“The death penalty in the USA continued to be marked by error, inconsistency, racial disparities and, in a number of cases, a lack of adherence to specific provisions of international law or safeguards,” the report states.

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Obama says talk with Pope Francis focused on plight of poor, wars
Video: President Barack Obama called himself a "great admirer" of Pope Francis as he sat down at the Vatican in their first meeting Thursday with the pontiff he considers a kindred spirit on issues of economic inequality.
By Scott Wilson, E-mail the writer
ROME — President Obama joined Pope Francis on Thursday at the Vatican, a meeting of two world figures with radically different politics but a shared concern that the global economy is dangerously dividing rich and poor.
The visit, watched closely here by an avid media and curious Romans who leaned from balconies to see Obama’s motorcade pass, is the most symbolic stop of the president’s Europe trip.
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 Obama calls for unity in Europe:?President Obama will meet with European Union and NATO officials in his first visit to Brussels, the bureaucratic heart of post-Cold War Europe, which he said this week at The Hague is threatened by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military turn in Ukraine.
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