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by the_imp 4042 days ago
> In other countries, if you're convicted of a crime you may have a body part cut off. You may be executed. Or you may simply "disappear". In any of these cases, you're not considered a prisoner.

But are those really the countries you would like the USA to be compared with?

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Right or wrong, when it comes to incarceration and execution rates, we are compared with these other countries.