> The US executed 22 people, Egypt 32, Iran 251, Saudi Arabia 184, China over 1000, and Iraq over 100 in 2019 None of those countries are neither Western nor d

> The US executed 22 people, Egypt 32, Iran 251, Saudi Arabia 184, China over 1000, and Iraq over 100 in 2019 None of those countries are neither Western nor democracies. All western democracies have been pushed by the influence of the others to abolish death penalty (for instance, it's a mandatory requirement in order to join the EU), the US being the only outlier. What if the situation was different, i.e. the US was an abolitionist country and only a small country like Luxembourg was the only remaining Western democracy to execute its citizens? It would quickly become a pariah among its peers. > it's because the person has done something society has judged to be worthy of death as punishment for that crime The basic problem with this is that it _does not work_, and it does not accomplish anything than pleasing the victims of a crime. Killing convicts has been the default punishment for millenia and still it hasn't deterred anyone from doing crimes. It simply creates a state where people are harshly punished for what they've done, and that often is used as a way to avoid doing absolutely nothing to fix the issues that caused the offense to occur in the first place. Europe has abolished executions decades ago, with some places like Italy doing that in the '800s. Still, Europe has a much lower crime rate than the US, where prisons are much harsher and the worst convicts may face an execution for their crimes.