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India

Capital punishment in India is reserved for the "Rarest of Rare" cases, and should be shaded "blue". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_India — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lemon.spray2000 (talk • contribs) 02:19, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Burma

Burma (officially the Union of Myanmar) is shown as "Abolished in practice". I no expert, but is this an error? Burma is constantly in the news about Human rights violations. For a government to a ruthless as the news say and not allow executions seems contradictory to me. However, as I said, I don't know what there legal system allows for them, death penalty wise.ARTEST4ECHO (talk) 21:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is shown as "Legal form of punishment for certain offenses" in the graph, but it was abolished for all crime in 1993. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.102.106.180 (talk) 17:13, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Moreover it is written into Hong Kong's constitution (the Basic Law) that the death penalty may not be applied. 86.4.206.56 (talk) 20:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is shown as "Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war)", but it was abolished for all crimes in 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.36.38.46 (talk) 11:54, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

USA State Representation?

Would anyone mind if I made a new version that also included the borders for American states? Each state has different law; some have abolished it as a whole, some haven't used it in ten years, and some actively use it. Each state has its own crimial code, unlike in Canada (for example) where federal law has abolished the death penalty nation wide or Japan where punishment is carried out at the federal level. I really don't see a problem, but I thought I'd see if there were any objections. -- CKBrown1000 ^talk  22:24, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Not convinced this would not create problems. For example how could the position of the Federal US authorities or Military be shown on the map - they both have capital punishment statutes. This page is really focussing on a global international picture which supports the tables in the main article. These do not currently have US states listed - although you could argue that they should be expanded to do so. It could also be misleading in the sense that a US citizen in a State which has abolished capital punishment still has their rights threatened by the Federal capital punishment laws. In addition there is a Wikipedia page that covers Capital Punishment in the United States of itself which is part of a broader series of pages looking at Capital Punishment within countries. Wllmevans (talk) 13:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Bolivia

The map is inconsistent with the main body of the article which highlights Bolivia in blue as abolishionist, quoting a constiututional change in 2009. The map colours Bolivia green suggesting it allows capital punishment in extraordinary circumstances. I assume the map is in error and there is a need to re-colour Bolivia blue to match the main article. Wllmevans (talk) 14:02, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Gabon

Hands Off Cain reported on 15 Feb 2011 that Gabon had abolished capital punishment. The change was apparantly signed into law by the President in early 2010 but not published until yesterday. The main text of the article will also need amending to reflect this change. Wllmevans (talk) 14:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Mongolia

As the President of Mongolia proclaimed a moratorium on capital punishment on 14 Jan 2010 should Mongolia be coloured orange rather than red? Wllmevans (talk) 15:07, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Sierra Leone

The map is inconsistent with the main body of the article. Sierra Leone is coloured orange in the main article as a de facto abolitionist state as the last execution was 1998 which is over 10 years ago. The map has Sierra Leone coloured red which I assume is an error - unless there has been a recent execution. Hands Off Cain has Sierra Leone as de facto abolitionist as of June 2010 and I have not been able to find anything which indicates a more recent execution Wllmevans (talk) 19:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC).

Lesotho

The map is inconsistent with the main body of the article. Lesotho is coloured orange in the main article as a de facto abolitionist state, as the last execution was in 1995 - which is over 10 years ago. The map has Lesotho coloured red which I assume is an error. Hands Off Cain has Lesotho as a de facto abolitionist state as of June 2010 and I have not been able to find any reports of a more recent execution. Wllmevans (talk) 19:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Guatemala

I have changed this from red to orange in the main article as Guatemala has a moratorium on capital punishment - according to Hands Off Cain. This needs to be updated on the map. Wllmevans (talk) 19:24, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Include legend on image page?

Is there a way to include the legend with its explanation of the colors on the image page? I have some articles that include this map without reference to what the colors mean. It would be great if clicking on the map led to an explanation of the colors in addition to the history, copyright data, etc. Computermacgyver (talk) 22:30, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Use of the death penalty around the world (as of Feb 2011).

  Abolished for all offenses (95)

  Abolished for all offenses except under special circumstances (8)

  Retains, though not used for at least 10 years (49)

  Retains death penalty (41)*

*Note that, while laws vary between U.S. states, it is considered retentionist because the federal death penalty is still in active use.

USA by state?

Shouldn't the US be coloured by state since there are states which don't have the death penalty and ones which do? Anyone know how to do that? --U5K0'sTalk_{Make WikiLove not WikiWar} 22:20, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Image bias

Red is associated with "bad" by many people. As Wikipedia is unbiased, and the death penalty is an ongoing moral debate, shouldn't all the countries with the death penalty be in tan or something? 11:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.136.244.60 (talk)

Red can mean many things to many people. Please see Red#Symbolism. --U5K0'sTalk_{Make WikiLove not WikiWar} 22:18, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Death is also associated with "bad", so the color scheme is actually pretty appropriate. It's not really an "ongoing moral debate" in much of the world, either. --129.11.249.211 (talk) 04:36, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

It seems that in most English-speaking countries, there is a negative connotation associated with red.71.237.56.109 (talk) 19:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

As a social democrat I have to disagree and I'm sure there are a few American republicans who would be on my side regarding this as well. Also, Coca cola and the Red cross may have something to say about it. --U5K0'sTalk_{Make WikiLove not WikiWar} 19:06, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Russia

Russia is officially under a moratorium on the death penalty. The Constitutional Court of Russia extended the moratorium indefinitely until the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (which Russia had signed) is ratified (which will ban the death penalty). Until then, the death penalty is still officially on the books, and given the reluctance of the State Duma to ratify the protocol, I don't think that Russia should be coloured in blue ("abolished for all crimes"); rather, it should be coloured in orange ("abolished in practice"). It was orange a while back, but someone changed it to blue.--Joshua ^{Say "hi" to me!}_{What I've done?} 04:17, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Gambia

Gambia recently executed nine inmates http://www.voanews.com/content/pressure_mounts_on_gambia_to_stop_executions/1497767.html so their tiny sliver of a country should be red, rather than orange. Czolgolz (talk) 04:01, 31 August 2012 (UTC)