Abolitionism: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

*Why does capital punishment persist in some places and not in others? There is a strong abolitionist current in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_debate_in_the_United_States#Third_abolitionist_era.2C_mid-20th_century the capital punishment debate in the United States of America]. - From a non-partisan point of view, David Garland attributes the persistence of capital punishment to the relatively undeveloped nature of the American state and to the country’s low levels of social solidarity. Governments that are secure in their power and legitimacy are confident enough to banish the executioner. These tend to be countries that have professional criminal justice systems insulated from the public’s passion for revenge and that are able to maintain low levels of interpersonal violence. Not so surprisingly, then, the death penalty is most entrenched in the South, which has had the nation’s highest homicide rates and where the police have tended to be relatively under-funded and less professional.