AdÃ¨le Exarchopoulos in âBlue Is the Warmest Color.. Credit Sundance Selects. I first saw âBlue Is the Warmest Colorâ at Cannes, where I wrote 399 dissenting words on the movie and raised some of the issues I had with it. I wrote that Mr. Kechiche was a self-indulgent filmmaker (the movie runs three hours), and mentioned a scene in which a man talks about art and female orgasms.
Key facts. 101. As of July 2015, 101 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. 22. In 2014, at least 22 countries around the world carried out executions. 2,466. In 2014, at least 2,466 people were sentenced to death worldwide-up 28% on 2013.he death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading. Amnesty opposes the death penalty at all times-regardless of who is accused, the crime, guilt or innocence or method of execution. We have been working to end executions since 1977, when only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
Many allied nations either abolished or limited the death penalty, and in the U.S., the number of executions dropped dramatically. Whereas there were 1,289 executions in the 1940s, there were 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell even further, to only 191, from 1960 to 1976.lthough some states abolished the death penalty in the mid-Nineteenth Century, it was actually the first half of the Twentieth Century that marked the beginning of the Progressive Period of reform in the United States.