Rwanda has joined much of the international community in a call for the end of the death penalty. It's a pretty compelling argument, all in all: If the Rwandan government can end capital punishment with countless perpetrators of genocide still to be punished, there are not a lot of countries in the world with a compelling argument to continue killing even the most malicious criminals.
(Meanwhile, Josh Ruxin, an Africa expert who contributes to Nicholas Kristof's blog at The New York Times, is generally optimistic about the direction of Rwanda.)
