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In America ;Louisiana and Texas because they do not agree to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and so do not follow the rules of the declaration so they can use the death penalty

There are a total of 59 countries that still keep the death penalty as a law and have it as a practice. There are only 90 countries that have abolished the death penalty completely to the bone. 10 countries only mantain the death penalty. These countries only use it with crimes commited in abnormal circumstances. These circumstances are times such as during the period of a war. Last but not least, there are 35 countries that still use the death penalty but, for common crimes. Luckily in these countries the use of the death penalty has fallen a good amount in the past 10 years. In addition to this, there are an extra 5 countries that do capital punishment for crimes committed by minors.

To add onto this big list, there are cases in America of when people have been executed becuase these people have serious mental illnesses. Over 1,000 people have been executed in America since 1977 and a good amount of these people have a history of very serious mental impairment compared to people in full health. They execute them becuase some mental illnesses mess with the brain, thus making a person more violent than usual; this, is a trigger that starts a capital crime.

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