* The UN Human Rights Office says the death penalty violates the right to life and does not deter crime.
* Amnesty International ranks China as the top global executioner. (Lethal injection is the most common form of execution.)
* New Zealand was the first country in the world to extend the right to vote to women (1893). The last European country to extend suffrage to women was Switzerland (1971).
* If Putin-wary NATO had a presidential vote, it wouldn’t be for Trump. Peace and self-defense–not tough-guy appeasement and ally abandonment–is the priority.