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Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]
The death penalty is rarely enforced, and is a legal form of punishment for murder; aggravated murder; drug trafficking; [334] successfully inciting the suicide of a mentally ill person; arson resulting in death; kidnapping resulting in death; acts of indecent assault resulting in death; disposal of nuclear waste in the environment; rape of a ...
When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, ... More guns and state-sanctioned killings do not represent any form of moral high ground and will never make us safer.
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [87] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [88] [89]
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...
In the late 1980s, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, from New York State, sponsored a bill to make certain federal drug crimes eligible for the death penalty as he was frustrated by the lack of a death penalty in his home state. [11] The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 restored the death penalty under federal law for drug offenses and some types of murder. [12]
(The Center Square) – An Arizona Democratic lawmaker is seeking to let voters decide if the death penalty could be legal in 2026. Rep. Patty Contreras, D-Phoenix, filed House Concurrent ...