Japan is among 69 nations, including the United States, that have the death penalty.
There are 128 countries, including European Union members, that have either abolished capital punishment, allow it only under special circumstances or have not carried it out in at least a decade. (In the U.S., 12 states do not have the death penalty.)
Despite international and domestic pressure to end executions, they are on the rise here.
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