Resolution Opposing Death Penalty OKd
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The United States was the only Western nation to vote against a U.N. Human Rights Commission resolution urging countries to consider abolishing capital punishment. The resolution, sponsored by Italy but not legally binding, passed in Geneva, 27-11. Fourteen nations abstained. The resolution calls on all countries that have not yet abolished the death penalty to restrict the number of sentences and to consider suspending future executions.
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