HPV is a common and highly contagious infection that can affect your skin, cervix, anus, mouth and throat. The strains of HPV, which cause a person to develop warts, is not the same group of HPV strains that cause cancer.1.
Other states which abolished the death penalty for murder before Gregg v. Georgia include: Minnesota in 1911, Vermont in 1964, Iowa and West Virginia in 1965 and North Dakota in 1973. Hawaii abolished the death penalty in 1948 and Alaska in 1957, both before their statehood.
Most countries have carried out the death penalty, also known as capital punishment, at some point in history. Today, more than two-thirds of all countries have abolished it; 130 countries have abolished its legal practice, and 9 countries use the death penalty only for exceptional crimes such as crimes of war [1].