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The Global Debate on the Death Penalty
       The debate over capital punishment in the United States—be it in
       calls for retribution with evidence that the death penalty does not
       deter crime. They have argued about whether the death penalty is a
       and popular support for capital punishment. Yet, while the United
       States has thus far rejected appeals to abolish the death penalty
       seemingly inexorably—decided to do away with capital punishment.
       abolished the death penalty, becoming the one hundredth country to
       legislation authorizing the death penalty in exceptional
       abolish the death penalty or have refrained from carrying out
       that retain the death penalty and carry out executions. But even
       where many nations have long insisted that the death penalty is an
       Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006, and the national
       death penalty paradigm. Whereas the death penalty was once viewed
       concerning the abolition of the death penalty: Protocols 6 and 13
       which the death penalty may be imposed and promotes abolition. Many
       such as the European Union, see the death penalty as one of the
       role of international law in U.S. death penalty cases. The debate
       to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty.” Id. at
       juvenile death penalty.
       international law in a series of death penalty cases interpreting
       The Court’s attention to international practice in death penalty
       administration of the death penalty.
       Rights (ICCPR) provides that the death penalty may only be imposed
       that the death penalty should be a quite exceptional measure.”
       HRI\GEN\1\Rev.1 at 6 (1994). In a death penalty case from Zambia,
       Facing the Death Penalty, adopted by the UN Economic and Social
       imposition of the death penalty on persons who have committed
       death penalty for crimes committed by mentally retarded offenders
       Penalty prohibit imposing the death penalty “on persons who have
       of those Facing the Death Penalty, E.S.C. Res. 1989/64, U.N. Doc.
       has urged countries not to impose the death penalty on persons
       person.” EU Memorandum on the Death Penalty (Feb. 25, 2000), at 4,
       the Supreme Court to strike down existing state death penalty laws
       state prosecutors in seeking the death penalty. Prosecutors are
       the death penalty in a given case is often influenced by the level
       of popular support for capital punishment within a given community.
       death penalty because she is morally opposed to it. In Tulare
       chief prosecutor is a zealous advocate of capital punishment. As a
       that geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty
       whether the application of the death penalty comports with basic
       and cons of capital punishment, the United States should take a