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Capital Punishment in the Americas: One Hemisphere, Three Legal Traditions

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Last Updated: July 2026 Overview No one has been executed anywhere in the Americas outside the United States since December 2008, when Saint Kitts and Nevis hanged Charles Laplace in what became the region’s last execution outside US jurisdiction. In the same hemisphere, the United States carried out 47 executions in 2025, its highest annual … Read more

Capital Punishment in Africa: The Fastest Abolition Trend Anywhere

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Last Updated: July 2026 Overview Africa has abolished the death penalty faster than any other region in the world over the past two decades. More than half of the continent’s states, 29 out of 54, have removed it entirely, and Chad, Sierra Leone, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Ghana and Zimbabwe all did … Read more