If a small, wealthy country can abolish poverty, why can't a large and wealthier one?

As part of a series of reforms, the country abolished this practice in 2011, effective 2012.

Capital punishment has been used in almost every part of the world, but in the last few decades many countries have abolished it.

Since 1985 there have been only three years when no country has abolished the death penalty, 1988, 2003 and 2011.

Since 1999 both countries have abolished visas as an example of strengthening relations.

Nowadays, all South American countries have abolished the death penalty.

Since 1999 both countries abolished visas for visitors from each other's countries.

"Any country that can land a man on the moon can abolish the income tax."

The last Western European country to practice the death penalty abolished it.

It is also the case that, during the 1990s, 30 countries abolished the death penalty.