Arguments against the death penalty

International Views on the Death Penalty

By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2011


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The vast majority of countries in Western Europe, North America and South America – more than 139 nations worldwide – have abandoned capital punishment in law or in practice. This document goes through the death penalty status of countries world wide.

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