The death sentence.

[Nurvingiel]

Taube made a good point here:

"When a man kills, and especially when he kills 170 people, there is no equivalent. It serves no one for the state and the criminal to outbid each other over death."

Scientific studies show the death penalty is not a deterrant for murderers. That's something I mentioned before.

BTW, my comment about the EU was that members of it probably don't care about Russia and Yugoslavia (though they should). They do care about the US because if you abolished the death penalty, you would lend huge weight to their campaign, and people are trying to influence the support of the death penalty by the citizens. (Which is at 60% according to this article.)