AdÃ¨le Exarchopoulos in âBlue Is the Warmest Color.. Credit Sundance Selects. I first saw âBlue Is the Warmest Colorâ at Cannes, where I wrote 399 dissenting words on the movie and raised some of the issues I had with it. I wrote that Mr. Kechiche was a self-indulgent filmmaker (the movie runs three hours), and mentioned a scene in which a man talks about art and female orgasms.
Key facts. 101. As of July 2015, 101 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. 22. In 2014, at least 22 countries around the world carried out executions. 2,466. In 2014, at least 2,466 people were sentenced to death worldwide-up 28% on 2013.he 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. We have been working to end executions since 1977, when only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
The last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging, and took place in 1964, prior to capital punishment being abolished for murder (in 1965 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland). Although not applied since, the death penalty was abolished in all circumstances in 1998.In 2004 the 13th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights became binding on the United Kingdom, prohibiting the restoration of the death penalty for as long as the UK is a party to the Convention.he Punishment of Death, etc. Act 1832 reduced the number of capital crimes by two-thirds. In 1832, the death penalty was abolished for theft, counterfeiting, and forgery except for the forgery of wills and certain powers of attorney.