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China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year; [22] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
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]
When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating Victor Hugo’s seat, also a strident abolitionist, and said “It is done.”
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The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106.
But a 2021 report by the state’s Committee on Revision of the Penal Code estimated that a death penalty proceeding adds $500,000 to $1.2 million to the cost of a murder trial.
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