Posted by Bob Janova at 10:32am Mar 10 '13You can't hide behind states on that one. We don't care about the internal structure of your country (a bit like how you don't seem to care about the nations within the UK, like over the Scotland-Libya thing a few years back). The fact is that the US is a country which has capital punishment, just like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Oh and re BP, since that's not really worth another post:
OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation.
How much of that is because those other companies are US based and know how to talk to the regulator so that they aren't inspected as carefully, or get told the tiny things they need to do before they get formally written up on it?
Oh and re BP, since that's not really worth another post:
OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation.
How much of that is because those other companies are US based and know how to talk to the regulator so that they aren't inspected as carefully, or get told the tiny things they need to do before they get formally written up on it?
Oh, and re death penalty - Bob Janova