A third of US executions botched in 2022 - report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : The DPIC report shows that the death penalty continues to be geographically isolated in the US, with only six states carrying out executions.
38% : "All the indicators point to the continuing decline in capital punishment," Robert Dunham, executive director of the DPIC, said.
38% : In a statement, she said she was not acting because these prisoners had been rehabilitated, but because the death penalty is "immoral".
37% : A total of 27 US states still have the death penalty on the books, including three - California, Oregon and Pennsylvania - which have called for a moratorium on executions.
34% : The report from the non-profit, which takes no position on capital punishment, said the executions were visibly problematic because of incompetence, failures to follow protocol or defects in the protocols themselves.

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