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[4] Although 31 states still retain the death penalty, only 7 of them actually carried out executions in 2014. [5] Twenty-six states have carried out executions during the last ten years; [6] the remaining 7 states, the U.S. Federal Government, and the U.S. Military are de facto abolitionist by U.N. standards.
Since 1990, 30 countries have abolished the death penalty. Among the 74 countries who continue to execute, a tiny group accounts for the vast majority of the worldâs executions each yearâ China, Iran, Vietnam and the United States. The death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime. 2  The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment.. 3  The death penalty fails to recognize that guilty people have the potential to change, denying them the opportunity to ever rejoin society.