More than 150 global business leaders call for end of death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Ahead of World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October, the campaign announced on Thursday that over 100 additional signatories have signed the declaration.
46% : Celia Ouellette, the chief executive of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice, a nonprofit who helped coordinate the campaign, said she hopes the new batch of signatories will give momentum to campaigns to end the death penalty in the US.
45% : "The death penalty used to be this very politically touchy subject that people would run away from as fast as they could."
43% : More than 170 UN member states have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
43% : Over a dozen have not used the death penalty in years.
43% : Most recently, Virginia became the first southern state to ban the death penalty in February.
43% : "I have a lot of hope in our state that we're going to end the death penalty," said John Rush, a business owner based in Columbus, Ohio, and one of the new signatories to the campaign.
41% : Activists against the death penalty have been focusing on pressuring Joe Biden to follow up on his campaign promise of passing legislation that would end the death penalty at the federal level.
40% : "As an irreversible and extreme form of punishment, the death penalty is inhumane, and it is irreconcilable with human dignity.
40% : In the US, 23 states have outlawed the death penalty and four have moratoriums on executions.
39% : "The controversiality of the death penalty has been massively reduced," Ouellette said.
37% : While there has been little legislation on the federal level, state governments have been for years slowly outlawing the death penalty, particularly as ending capital punishment has become an increasingly bipartisan issue.
31% : More than 150 global business leaders have signed a declaration calling for the end of the death penalty around the world and criticizing capital punishment for perpetuating inequality.
14% : While Biden's justice department reinstated the moratorium on all federal executions, which the Trump administration had previously lifted to carry out a wave of controversial executions, the president has so far not taken further action to address the death penalty.

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