I denounce this act, as well. However, in 2003:

Of all known executions in 2003, 84 per cent took place in four countries: at least 726 people in China, 108 in Iran, 65 in the United States and 64 in Viet Nam.

So should we a) break off relations with China; b) break off relations with ourselves; c) other?

I’m not clear that publically executing people is morally worse than executing them in secret, which is what we do — secret in the sense that almost no one is allowed to see the gruesome experience, or obtain even pictures. Do you believe that it’s the public aspect that makes Iran so much more evil?

To be clear, I’m sure Iran is executing people entirely unjustly, as well as for offenses we would never dream of executing them for, as well as without procedural safeguards we at least theoretically believe in, if don’t actually enforce very well.

And I denounce Iran. I’m just not clear that they’re on an entire other moral level in this regard than us, given how many innocent people the U.S. provably convicts and sentences the death penalty.