What do You Get the Civilized Nation That Has Something None Other Has?

According to Doug Berman over at SL&P, today is Death Penalty Abolition Day. Why March 1? Because that's the date in 1847 when the state of Michigan became the first English-speaking territory to abolish capital punishment. So, Happy DPA Day to everyone!

As to Doug's question about when we will have a "international get-rid-of-200-year-sentences day," that'll happen whenever the populace at large, the ones who punish politicians for being "soft on crime" just for thinking about criminal justice reform, actually realize what hell holes prisons are and come to the conclusion that no human being deserves to have at least the hope of getting out taken away from them.