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The United Nations held a vote on the death penalty. This is how countries voted
(worldcoalition.org)
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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The headline makes it sound like the "in favour" votes were for death penalty, which is not correct. This was a vote for a moratorium - a temporary suspension - of death penalty.
This now makes more sense. The headline did a shitty job
Omg thank you for the explanation I was real worried there for a second
I was wondering how we are somehow in favour when we don't even have it.
(op is a cunt Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi)
If it makes the United States look good it has to be wrong
Thank you I was very confused seeing many of these countries "against"
Yes I checked my own country (Denmark) and that is green, and for Denmark it is decidedly illegal to vote for death penalty.
So the vote was probably about making death penalty illegal.
PS:
AFAIK it would be against the Eu treaty to vote for death penalty for ALL EU countries.
The headline in the image clears up the confusion
Not if you don't know what moratorium means (which I didn't before reading the comments)
Yeah I came here to ask about this, because Brazil voting in favor of the death penalty when it doesn't have it did set off some alarms for me
Thought the same looking up Canada.
New Zealand and Iceland lol
The only people who were confused are the ones who didn't actually read the diagram.
yeah you could delete the labels altogether and I'd still tell you which color is which vote based on who voted.
for future reference, if you see the US voting with the wartorn, economically devastated, despot-ruled or otherwise suffering nations, or if you see the US voting alone or with Israel, then you can bet that they voted for the worst option.
That's no excuse for a misleading headline.
It's not misleading at all...