Since I don't have anybody to interview for this week's 3 Questions to, I decided to answer 3 Questions about a topic we talk about a lot these days, mostly because of the last days' news: death penalty.
Q : What's the death penalty?
C : The death penalty, also called capital penalty, is a penalty programmed by the law that consists in executing a person condamned for a capital crime. The list of crumes considered as capital changes between the states; murderer, spying, rape, drugs traffic in big quantities, and even plane's detornment.
Q : In which countries is it still efficient?
C : As the map shows, death penalty is still efficient in a lot of countries, such as the USA, India, Asian countries and some African countries. However, in the USA, it is only practiced in 34 States out of 50.
Q : Does death penalty could stop soon?
C : It's hard to say. Many countries aren't ready to give up this practice, even if their citizens disagree with it. But in the USA, the number of executions has dropped of one third in 20 years. In some States, such as California or Maryland, death penalty hasn't been aplicated in more than 5 years; the experts think than in a few years, 5 new States could have given up death penalty. However, they say that the question could be discussed any moment in the Supreme Court of the USA, and death penalty could then be abolished by law in the USA.
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