Essays on Capital Punishment - Capital Punishment in the World The essay analyzes the whole world and presents the practices of death penalty. In the last paragraph the document focuses exclusively on the United States. Over half of the world's countries 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 crimes except exceptional ones such as war crimes* 20 countries can be considered abolitionist in practice: they maintain the death penalty in law but have not carried out any executions in the last 10 years or more, for a total of 109 countries that have abolished the death penalty death penalty in law or practice. Another 86 countries maintain and use the death penalty, but the number of countries that actually execute prisoners in a year is much lower. (Death) More than three countries per year on average have abolished the death penalty for all crimes over the past ten years. . Since 1990, over 30 countries and territories have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. These include countries in Africa (for example Angola, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa), in the Americas (Canada, Paraguay), in Asia (Hong Kong). Kong, Nepal), Europe (Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, Turkmenistan, Ukraine). (Ibid) Once abolished, the death penalty is rarely reintroduced. Since 1985, over 40 countries have abolished the death penalty by law or, having previously abolished it for common crimes, have continued to abolish it for all crimes. In the same period, only four abolitionist countries reintroduced the death penalty. One of these, Nepal, which reintroduced the death penalty for murder, then abolished it for all crimes; one, the Philippines, resumed executions, but there were no executions in the other two (Gambia, Papua New Guinea). (They should) During 2000, at least 1,457 prisoners were executed in 27 countries and 3,058 people were sentenced to death in 65 countries. In 2000, 88% of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. In China, limited and incomplete data available to Amnesty International at the end of the year indicated that at least 1,000 people had been executed, but the true figure is believed to be much higher. 123 executions have been reported in Saudi Arabia, but the total could be much higher. In the United States, 85 people were executed.