The U.S. joined Saudi Arabia, Iran and North Korea in voting against the resolution.
ahead of the vote that “it is time for the United States to join most of the world in rejecting state killing.”
“Doing so would send a strong signal of where he wants to lead the country on this issue and also would lend support to groups working to end the death penalty,” he added, both in the U.S. and abroad.she was dismantling the state’s execution chamber and commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life in prison without parole, saying she made the decision based on her belief that capital punishment is “both dysfunctional and immoral.”its annual review of the death penalty in the U.
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