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Raysa Velasquez =raysa_reisin@hotmail.com= = = = = =**The Death Penalty Today**= =In April 1999, the United Nations Human Rights Commission passed the [|Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium On Executions]. The resolution calls on countries which have not abolished the death penalty to restrict its use of the death penalty, including not imposing it on juvenile offenders and limiting the number of offenses for which it can be imposed. Ten countries, including the United States, China, Pakistan, Rwanda and Sudan voted against the resolution. (New York Times, 4/29/99). Each year since 1997, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has passed a resolution calling on countries that have not abolished the death penalty to establish a moratorium on executions. In April 2004, the resolution was co-sponsored by 76 UN member states. (Amnesty International, 2004).= = = =In the United States numbers of death sentences are steadily declining from 300 in 1998 to 106 in 2009.= =Presently, more than half of the countries in the international community have abolished the death penalty completely, de facto, or for ordinary crimes. However, 58 countries retain the death penalty, including China, Iran, the United States, and Vietnam all of which rank among the highest for [|international executions in 2003]. (Amnesty International, 2010)= = [|Return to Index] = = = = [|Return to Part I] = = = = =

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