Many revolutionaries made note of the atrocities of governments as evidence that their ideology was necessary to bring an end to the government's abuses. ... Over seventy-five countries have now abolished capital punishment for all crimes after Amnesty International convened an International Conference on the Death Penalty in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977. ... Since 1997, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights passes a resolution calling on countries that have not abolished capital punishment to establish a moratorium on executions every year. ...

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