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[–] 228 points 11 months ago (15 children)

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.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Omg thank you for the explanation I was real worried there for a second

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    The only people who were confused are the ones who didn't actually read the diagram.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    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.

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