Pope Francisco announced that the Catholic Church would consider the death penalty application "unacceptable" in all circumstances
The Pope coordinated a document summarizing the main principles of faith, including the official position on ethical issues such as the death penalty written by the Pontifical Catechism, Pope John Paul II in 1992.
In previous form, in some cases he said that the death penalty was "appropriate response to the seriousness of a particular crime".
However, in the revised edition, it says that the death penalty is "attack against human's force majeure and dignity" and should not be used under any circumstances.
According to this amendment, CNN said, "Public officials are in a position the Pope has expressed since he became a pope."
According to the Vatican's statement declaring this decision, the church is now "to abolish the world with all my heart"
According to Amnesty International, at least 993 people were executed in 23 countries in 2017, a 4% decrease from 2016. However, the organization believes that thousands of executions may be executed in China, the application of the death penalty is the secret of the state.
According to Amnesty International, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia have the largest number of executions in 2016. According to the Washington DC death penalty information center, a total of 57 countries hold the death penalty, but the rest abolish the law or practice death penalty.
Benin and Nauru sentenced death sentences to all crimes in 2016 and Chad and Guatemala took an important step to abolish the death penalty. By contrast, after the 60 - year moratorium, the Maldives have taken action last year to reexecute executions. According to the "Independence" report, there were 20 death sentences on the island in 2017.
Amnesty International said that China is "one of the most homicidal countries in the world" and will make judicial killings every year.
"Because Beijing classifies most of the information related to the death penalty as national secrets, it is difficult to acquire clear numerical values," Al Jazeera English
According to the Human Rights Watch, Iran has conducted at least 567 enforcement in 2016, but only 242 were announced through official or semi-official sources. At least 328 people died in drug-related crimes
At the same time, the United States withdrew from the top five executives for the first time since 2006, 20 people died - the lowest number since 1991, Amnesty International said
Those who agree with the death penalty believe that execution is an appropriate response because some crimes are very frightening.
The BBC states that more than 80% of Japan support the death penalty, but there are unique reasons for this: in a society where many people "live under severe pressure and pressure in the workplace" the death penalty Indicates that the criminal penalty will be punished. People who follow the rules are rewarded
Activists in the insurance industry argue that the most serious offenders are preventing other people from walking in similar ways, but still questioned the effectiveness as a deterrent
The result of investigating this relationship is not conclusive. However, according to a 2009 criminal investigation, 88% did not think that the death penalty would be deterrent.
The United States is the only country in the Western industrialized countries that are still under capital punishment. Since 1990, 30 countries abolished capital punishment. Of the 74 countries that are still in operation, small groups make up the majority of the world's annual executions - China, Iran, Vietnam, and the United States. Over the centuries Republicans and the Democratic Party have been fighting for "a strict attitude towards crime" and executions soared from the 1980s to the 1990s. However, recent public support for the death penalty is decreasing. In the Gallup poll of October 2005, the death penalty decreased from 80% in 1994 to 64%, 2006 was the lowest death sentence in 30 years.
As of the end of 2016, 57 countries are still actively using the death penalty. The other 30 hold the death penalty under the law, but they have not used it within 10 years; the other seven hold the death penalty and are used only in extreme cases such as war crimes . More than half of the world abolished 104 countries that apply capital punishment for all crimes
The death penalty is the death penalty imposed by the government on those who committed horrible crimes such as murder and rape. The death penalty was a way to punish people for many years. Some countries abolished capital punishment from their law, but many countries still carry out murder. The death penalty is common in the US, Asia and the Middle East. Several ways to enforce criminals are pending