A new report by the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project discusses the
United States' position on the death penalty in the face of international concerns regarding this practice. The report,
How the Death Penalty
Weakens U.S. International Interests, notes that many other nations are moving toward abolition of capital punishment and are critical of specific aspects of the death penalty in the U.S. Among the topics featured in this
resource are the ongoing international efforts to abolish the death
penalty, foreign intervention in U.S.