He called that a violation of the constitutional right to due process, and said the death penalty was therefore "tantamount to foreseeable, state-sponsored murder of innocent human beings."

Which other parties to state-sponsored murder would Mr. Bernstein stand up for?

The atrocity is not the number dead but the way state-sponsored murder, massacre, rape and siege of cities is used to expel people and to create ethnically pure territories.

After he left home before the age of eighteen, his main interest in life was his opposition to the death penalty, which he regarded as state-sponsored murder.

The judge, Jed S. Rakoff, hearing a case involving a 1999 drug-related murder, said the death penalty was "tantamount to foreseeable, state-sponsored murder of innocent human beings."

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan asked a federal appeals court panel yesterday to reverse a judge's ruling that the death penalty is unconstitutional and "tantamount to foreseeable, state-sponsored murder of innocent human beings."

His demands: an end to martial law and state-sponsored political murders, implementation of a democratic system and release of all Meilitao Incident political prisoners.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, located in New York, reversed a lower court ruling that found the federal death penalty unconstitutional because it amounted to the "state-sponsored murder" of innocent people.