Capital punishment: A deadly dilemma

Authors
Wallach, JD
Citation
Jd. Wallach, Capital punishment: A deadly dilemma, RELIG HUMAN, 34(3-4), 2000, pp. 107-122
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Religion & Tehology
Journal title
RELIGIOUS HUMANISM
ISSN journal
00344095 → ACNP
Volume
34
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
107 - 122
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-4095(200022)34:3-4<107:CPADD>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
More than half the world's countries, including all of Western Europe, have abolished capital punishment in law or in practice. Of all western industr ialized nations, only the United States employs capital punishment. Accordi ng to Amnesty International, worldwide, the only two countries "believed to have executed a person during 1999 for a crime committed before he was 18" were Iran and the United States.