Death Penalty Questions

1. Do other countries have death penalties?
According to Amnesty International, 139 countries have abolished the death penalty. In 2010, only one country, Gabon, abolished the death penalty for all crimes. During 2010, 23 countries executed 527 prisoners and at least 2,024 people were sentenced to death in 67 countries.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html#ixzz1fC7lYJZV
With this being said, other countries also have the death penalities, however some have gotten rid of it. I wonder how these countries have changed from this change


2. What are the methods of execution of a prisoner?
1103 Lethal Injection
157 Electrocution
11 Gas Chamber
3 Hanging
3 Firing Squad
35 states plus the US government use lethal injection as their primary method. Some
states utilizing lethal injection have other methods available as backups.
I wonder why Lethal Injection is the number one way of execution in the US.

3. About how many people have been given the death penalty and then later found guilty?
Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. This statistic scares me. What if these people were executed and never committed the crime? Why should we have the death penalty if people can be found not guilty in the time being. In my opinion we should abolish the death penalty in all states due to this statistic and numbers.



Great Information:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf