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by CreateAccount50 752 days ago
Virtually Western democracies support death penalty besides the US and Japan. It literally puts us in a lot with the countries. We consider it to be backwards (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia).

I don't think Americans sometimes realize how radical of an outlier we are to the rest of the world on this and many other issues, including probably most notably, basic social policy.

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>"Virtually Western democracies support death penalty besides the US and Japan"

You do not make any sense. It is all backwards.

>"(Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia)" Russia has a moratorium since the end of 80s / beginning of 90s and does not execute people.