Elliot Williams: Countries Like China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Egypt Who Have Death Penalty Are ‘Not Our Peer Nations’

EXCERPT:

WILLIAMS: "And the other point I would make is, you know, sort of picking up on your point a little bit, Maria, the only countries that execute more people worldwide than the United States are China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Egypt. This is not — "

CARDONA: "We don‘t want to be in that company."

WILLIAMS: " — company that we should be in in the United States. I don‘t want to get into looking down our American noses at the rest of the world, but this is just simply not our peer nations. And if we wish to be taken seriously on a global stage with the kind of countries that we want to be partners with, this is just not the way we ought to be operating."