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Little by little, countries are ditching the deathpenalty 各国逐渐放弃死刑 On September 19th Abdul Hamid al-Fakki, aSudanese, was executed in Saudi Arabia for thecrime of sorcery. On September 21st Troy Davis, ablack man convicted of shooting an off-duty whitepoliceman, was executed in the American state ofGeorgia. Protests that the evidence against him was flawed proved fruitless. 9月19日，苏丹人阿布杜尔哈米德阿尔法基在沙特被以巫术罪处以死刑。9月21日，黑人特洛伊达维斯因枪杀一名下班后的白人警察，在美国佐治亚州被处决。此前，曾有人抗议称证据有瑕疵，但未起到作用。 Despite these cases the death penalty, on the statute books since the days of Hammurabi, isdisappearing in much of the world. More than two-thirds of countries have done away with iteither in law or in practice. The latest is Benin. In August the west African country committeditself to abolishing capital punishment permanently. The number of countries that carry outjudicial killings fell from 41 in 1995 to 23 in 2010, according to Amnesty International, apressure group. China , Iran, North Korea, and Yemen accounted for most of theexecutions. Votes against the death penalty at the UN General Assembly have passed with bigand growing majorities since 2007. Capital punishment has virtually gone in Europe . This year China whittled down its list of crimespunishable by death. | 
