Despite declining globally as a legal punishment, the commission of the death penalty has risen in recent years – especially in Islamic countries like Iran, but also in the culturally Buddhist lands of East Asia and Singapore. China executes more people by far than anyone else in absolute numbers, and Singapore has the highest rate of capital punishment per capita of any nation.
Other liberal democracies, like Israel and the US, have expanded its applicability and means – introducing the death sentence exclusively for Palestinians, in the former case, and death by firing-squad, in the latter.
Lucrezia Rizzelli and Daniel Cullen at Oxford University invited my Buddhist-philosophical response to this situation, now available as a short research paper in their DPRU series, here –
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