why does norway not have the death penalty?

It is not only Norway even Canada has no death penalty

It is the American justice system that holds the death penalty in many states

I am only guessing it is because American society needs a severe Punishment as deterrent for violent crimes like killing and murder (If they want to kill someone they can do it in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya , Pakistan etc But not in America)

Also there is a lust for revenge in American society( God forgives we don't) attitude for crimes

It is because there is so much violent crimes in USA that peaceful people feel secure that if some one kills them he too will be killed by the justice system and cannot stay a few months in jail and released on probation.

Americans aren’t more bloodthirsty than others. But we have a federal system so that abolition is on a state by state basis. State and local politicians have tried to stay away from difficult issues like the death penalty - and respond to what they see as the more primal and angriest voices in their communities.

Other factors in our political system have played a big part in keeping the death penalty. Judges and prosecutors are elected here. In the red hot political climate following a particularly heinous crime, the loudest voices are from those who have an eye on their political futures and compete to see who can be the harshest, toughest and most punitive.

Over the past few years however, the death penalty issue has become much easier for politicians, mostly because the word is out about the awful baggage that comes with it. The trend is towards ending the death penalty. Six states have done this in the past 6 years, the number of executions has gone down dramatically as well as the number of new death sentences.

Norway is a civilized country. Civilized nations don't have the death penalty. Canada USED to have the death penalty. But, they put an innocent man to death. As a result, the Canadians abolished the death penalty. The United States has murdered more than one innocent man-----and called it an execution. We don't care. We want the death penalty process to accelerate, much faster. Even though we have had to release 147 men from death row. They are now free men. You see, they were innocent. They didn't murder anybody. We wanted to execute them, any way.

Death penalty :

extreme dogmatic expression of so called 'Justice'.

Upheld by people for whose view is black vs white,

not a lot inbetween.

Many nations have abolished the death penalty. Too many innocent people have been executed.

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Iceland, and Switzerland have a low population of prisoners in their national prisons. They can afford to accommodate many prisoners sentenced for life in their prisons.

Recently I signed a petition to the United Nations

"Worldwide Outlawing and Abrogation of the Torture and the Death Penalty" at Change.org.

If you agree that this evil must be stopped then will you please sign it too?

http://www.change.org/petitions/worldwide-outlawin...

No and yes - 32 states, the federal government and the military

The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents

Dudley Sharp

The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives.

The majority populations of all countries, likely, support the death penalty for some crimes (1).

Why? Justice.

Anti death penalty arguments are either false or the pro death penalty arguments are stronger.

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES

The Innocent Frauds: Standard Anti Death Penalty Strategy

and

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-innocent...

OF COURSE THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS: A review of the debate

and

MURDERERS MUCH PREFER LIFE OVER EXECUTION

99.7% of murderers tell us "Give me life, not execution"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/of-course-de...

Saving Costs with The Death Penalty

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/02/death-penalt...

RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/07/rebuttal-dea...

The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-...

Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2013/02/19/murder-and...

The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge

http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-...

The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-death-pe...

MORAL FOUNDATIONS

Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.". "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral."

Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52.

John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct).

John Locke: "A criminal who, having renounced reason... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security." And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Second Treatise of Civil Government.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgments are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State." (The Social Contract).

Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566).

3200 additional pro death penalty quotes

http://prodpquotes.info/

1) 86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013

World Support Remains High

95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/11/86-death-pen...

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Victim's Voices - These are the murder victims

http(COLON)//www.murdervictims.com/Voices/voices.html

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Because Europe is forward thinking, unlike the USA.