The essay pans the whole world and presents the death penalty practices. In the last paragraph the paper focuses on the USA exclusively.
Over half the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice:
* 75 countries and territories have abolished the death penalty for all crimes
* 14 countries have abolished the death penalty for all but exceptional crimes such as wartime crimes
* 20 countries can be considered abolitionist in practice: they retain the death penalty in law but have not carried out any executions for the past 10 years or more.…
