March 19, 2010:
Paul Warner Powell, thirty-one white, was executed by electric chair in the prison of Greensville, Virginia (USA). He was sentenced to death for murder, committed in 1999, a 16 year old girl, Stacie Reed.
The sentence was executed after the governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell refused the grace and the Supreme Court of the United States has not agreed to stop the execution.
This is the first run of the year in Virginia and the number 106 in the state since 1976, when he was readmitted to the death penalty in the United States. That Powell is in the 11th year running United States. (Sources: AFP, 19/03/2010).
event public opinion seems to be absent, the media like ostriches sticking their heads in the ground!
September 8, 2010: Ashtiani
Sakineh
Mohammadi was sentenced to stoning for adultery and a charge of murder by the Iranian Justice. E 'waiting to know the day of his announced purpose.
The whole world, urged by the media, is moving to lead the Iranian government to take positions different from a death sentence, thus shaking the entire Arab world as well as the irrepressible Western society! Two situations apparently
like, two human beings led to 'death penalty' in the same year 2010, two reactions of the public and the world of information is completely opposite. For a
materializes the sentence, the other is looking for the reprieve.
the first situation as a top-down, there were no reactions or enlarged or spread the news by national and international media.
The second situation was smitten as if by magic the world for disinterested affection (?) Leads to the headlines a story that will take a short time in the international political!
I ask then what are the reasons why these two events are borne out of opinion so different although they share many common characteristics?
Perhaps the value of life has a different weight in countries like the U.S. and Iran?
How important is the pressure of the media in amplifying situations that cause these events have the same value related to human rights?
Have your say.
Di Paolo Praolini Agoravox Italy published on the 08 / 09/10.
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