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-The United States ranked fifth for the highest number of executions

-The United States takes a spot behind China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia for the most executions in the world last year, sitting ahead of Yemen and Sudan.

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TThis ranking comes as no surprise to Brian Evans ( http://blog.amnestyusa.org/author/brian-evans/), Amnesty International's acting director on the Death Penalty Abolition Campaign, who said the same countries are in the top eight every year. (See video: "Inside Death Row.")

- The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the eighteenth century B.C. In the king Hammaurabi of Babylon which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes

This video explains what DEATH PENALTIES are and why people use this rule for over 400 years

Ishan Sinha