There is a simple alternative to government executions: Keep people behind bars without resorting to killing them. worldwide have abolished the death penalty. Italy abolished the death penalty in 1948; . In the Netherlands, the last execution took place in 1952; Australia in 1967. Since ending the death penalty in 1976, . The U.S. is the to conduct executions. Even Russia stopped executions in 1996. Our country with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan. We are very late in ending state-sponsored executions. It can be done; last month .