let's bring in stephanie mcclellan head and open stephanie. so we have what we have, we're in a situation right now where some of the bigger countries and the result. how is iran, for example, the us, china have the death of us here, which is allows smaller countries. they will, those bigger countries have the death penalty. so, you know, don't take a look at us, take a look at them. is that any pressure you compile on the big countries, the regional powers, to get rid of the death penalty, or is it, are you simply shouting into the void? now look, look, $120.00, countries voted against it. and last monday and we finally called the u.n. will like that voters at the general assembly plenary in december 39. countries did vote against it. they wanted to keep it down, you know, see, but we know that those countries, a lot of those countries of some of the most serious human rights violations in the world, china, iraq, i'm as yet now, north korea. i mean, these are countries with a reach its human rights records. and of course, any country that vot

anchor: let's bring in stephanie mcclellan. we have a situation right now are some of the bigger countries and regional powers, iran, the u.s., china, have the death penalty which allows smaller countries to say those bigger countries have the death penalty, so don't take a look at us, take a look at them. is there any pressure you can put on the regional powers to get rid of the death penalty or are you simply shouting into the void? guest: 120 countries voted against the death penalty last monday and we are fairly confident the u.n. will adopt that vote at the general assembly plenary in december. 39 countries did vote against it. they wanted to keep the death penalty. but we know a lot of those countries are some of the most serious human rights violators in the world -- china, iran, vietnam, north korea -- these are countries with egregious human rights records. and, of course, any country that votes in favor of it is sending a terrible signal -- that votes against the resolution is sending a terrible signal to other countr

stephanie mcclellan, a senior manager, asia, and initiatives for human rights watch and tehran, hamad and professor of political science at tehran, university, and import rush, northern ireland, inwards author of surviving execution, a miscarriage of justice, and the fight to end the death penalty. a welcome to you all, i'd like to begin in tehran with how many you actually support the death penalty. why do you think it makes such a terror and well, i think the 1st issue here is we have to look at every country separately. i don't think we can have a general rule for the entire globe regarding capital punishment. the latest data on iran, the world values survey which was actually conducted in 2020. so. 'd it's very recent, ask the iranians, what they thought of capital punishment would. it was on a scale of $1.00 to $10.00 with one to be never suitable, and 10 being always suitable over 80 percent of iranians actually chose a number of 5 or over. so a majority of iranians, including myself, support the capital punishment system, and i think it does act as a deterrent for potential vio

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