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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.
The death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Amnesty opposes the death penalty at all times - regardless of who is accused, the crime, guilt or innocence or method of execution. For 40 years, we have been working to end executions. When we began that work in 1977, only 16 countries had totally abolished the death penalty. Today, that number has risen to 104 - more than half the world's countries.