August 2, 2016
"Momentum continues to build against the death penalty, and Delaware today has joined a growing majority on the right side of history,” said James Clark, senior death penalty campaigner at Amnesty International USA. “Today more than half of U.S. states do not carry out executions. Those few that continue must end this failed system and abolish this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment once and for all.”
Amnesty International has documented a steady decline in the use of the death penalty in the United States and around the world. In 2015, only six states carried out any executions, and 86 percent of executions were concentrated in just three states: Texas, Missouri, and Georgia.
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