Home; Crime; pros and cons Pros and cons of using the death penalty. There's been a 'clear trend' away from capital punishment in recent decades, but the US 'remains an outlier' ...

When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating ...

During the period of increased use of the death penalty, the murder rate dropped from 24, 562 in 1933 to 18,209 in 1997, a 26 percent reduction. Different countries use different methods of ...

Statistics show that the death penalty leads to a brutalisation of society and an increase in murder rate. In the USA, more murders take place in states where capital punishment is allowed.

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...