Although the decision to grant blanket clemency in Illinois was a major step, only time will tell if the rest of the United States will follow in many other countries footsteps to abolish capital punishment. Capital punishment is punishment by death for committing a crime. Since the early 1800...

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In Canada, the homicide rate fell from a peak of 3.09 per 100,000 population in 1975(the year before the abolition of the death penalty for murder) to 2.74 in 1983, and in 1986 it reached a 15-year low. ...

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