Capital punishment is a sign of failure.
Failure is a part of learning and improvement, but if you continue to fail in the same endeavour, there is a problem indicating that the system needs to change. So, capital punishment should have long been expunged from a system that is “civilised”, “advanced”, “modern”, “space age”, “rich”, “successful” or other similar descriptions of our world. But it is still rife.
You might offer a bit of leniency to societies which are resource poor, where food is scare and technology scarcer, but you should be disgusted if a leading society is behaving in a primitive way.
Is your society on this ranking of executions?
It is sad that such rich nations are on this list. Countries like China, US, Saudi Arabia, Japan need to get themselves off this list now. System change is necessary.
Number of executions
China – 1000+
Iran – 369+
Iraq – 169+
Saudi Arabia – 79+
United States – 39
Somalia – 34+
Sudan – 21+
Yemen – 13+
Japan – 8
Vietnam – 7
Taiwan – 6
Indonesia – 5
Kuwait – 5
South Sudan – 4+
Nigeria – 4
Palestinian Authority (Gaza) – 3+
Afghanistan – 2
Bangladesh – 2
Malaysia – 2
Botswana – 1
India – 1
Other countries may have performed executions but a lack of information meant that Amnesty were unable to verify reports.
Source: Amnesty International
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