DEATH PENALTY FACTS


 

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• 75 Countries and territories have abolished the death penalty for ALL CRIMES.

 
• 16 Countries have abolished the death penalty for ALL BUT EXCEPTIONAL CRIMES, war crimes for example.

 
• 84 Countries practice the death penalty.

http://www.amnesty.org


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ESTIMATES OF DEATH SENTENCES AND EXECUTIONS IN CHINA:

This chart shows how many prisoners in China were sentenced
to death vs. how many prisoners were actually
executed that year.  The number of executions is lower.


 
 

                                                                                    This chart shows how many prisoners
                                                                    in the United States were sentenced
                                                                    to death each year.  The number of
                                                                    prisoners to be executed rapidly increased
                                                                    between 1976 and 2000.
 

                                        Bureau of Justice statistics bulletin: Capital Punsihment 2000.  US Dept. of Justice, office of Justice Programs. Rev. 02-21-02.

UNITED STATES AGRESSIVE APPROACH:

    Compared to other Western industrialized natoins, the United States is the only nation that actively eforces the death penalty.  Capital Punishment is a leading factor in the routine use of the US death penalty by helping to desensitize the obvious cruelty of killing.
    Canada's use of the death penalty was abolished in 1976, abandoning capital punishment; since then the crime and homicide rate decreased.  If the United States abolished the use of the death penalty, our crime and homicide rates might decrease as well; but because of the nation's underlying social tensions, the US adamently enforces the death penalty as a solution.

http://www.wsws.org/