Even in the states most enthusiastic approximately capital punishment – Texas,Missouri and Georgia – executions and death sentences are dramatically downThe painfully leisurely death of the death penalty in the United States continued to play itself out in 2015, reducing the ultimate punishment to levels not seen for the past 40 years, or according to two new reports.According to the annual report of the Death Penalty Information middle,capital punishment showed a sharp decline nationwide on all of the main indicators. The most jaw-dropping drop was in the number of new death sentences – a measure of the enthusiasm of the American people, as expressed through juries, or for judicial killings – which reached a low not seen since the 1970s.
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Source: theguardian.com