Some Of Pro / Con: Should we keep the death penalty? - HS Insider

Countries That Abolished the Death Sentence As of 2017 per Amnesty International, 142 nations, representing two-thirds of all countries worldwide, have actually abolished the capital punishment on ethical premises, including: Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Holy See (Vatican City), Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Norway, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia (consisting of Kosovo), Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, UK, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela.

To deal with the nation's drug and criminal activity issue, President Duterte has called on Congress to resurrect the capital punishment after it was eliminated in 2006. In action, the House of Representatives Committee on Justice swiftly authorized House Expense 1 last December, with plenary debates now ongoing. In the Senate, the capital punishment costs is supposedly having a much more difficult time since of higher opposition from the senators.

But in this post we take on the problem by turning to data, empirical studies, and a review of the country's past experience with the death penalty. This Author in all, the data recommend that the death sentence will be unnecessary, anti-poor, and error-prone provided the existing state of our legal and judicial system.