Thanks for keeping us all abreast of international versus national jurisdiction, Richard.
I happen to be a left/center US citizen who believes the death penalty is warranted in certain cases where the issue resolving the judgement is beyond a shadow of a doubt.
I love that the British continue to adopt a holier than thou attitude regarding slavery when British Slaveships were the principle means of transporting slaves to this country for 200 years, and British colonial strategy essentially established the plantation culture of the South, from which they reaped the rewards of the cotton and tobacco trade, even after they "saw the light" and found "amazing grace".

I don't believe this had any impact on British-sponsored creation of an opium-addicted subclass in China which also fit comfortably into British trade schemes. So why don't you do us a favor and replace some of the panes in your glass house before you grab another handful of stones?

Texas is no bellwether for American thought and belief, either, and I don't defend what happens there. But I find the internationalist sanctimony about it with the accompanying tendency to lecture nausea-inducing.