The Catholic church also recently said it opposed Duterte's plan to reinstate the death penalty.

Carey vetoed the bill to reinstate the death penalty.

The president has repeatedly expressed his readiness to reinstate the death penalty, which would spell the end of talks.

He said he would abolish the Houses of Parliament, appoint 100 leading businessmen to run the country and reinstate the death penalty.

The EU executive in Brussels said on Wednesday that moves to reinstate the death penalty could incur curbs on Hungary's EU rights and entitlements.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he is ready to reinstate the death penalty "if the people demand it", following the recent coup attempt.

That in turn was the highest since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

However, US states have been executing convicted criminals since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

It didn't matter if the subject was legalization of marijuana, reinstating the death penalty, or the oil-depletion allowance.

Nebraska reinstated the death penalty in 1973, and has executed three people since 1976.

When the supreme court reinstated the death penalty four years later, it didn't establish a one-size-fits-all process for capital cases.

Texas has executed more inmates than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Avidly opposed to capital punishment, he vetoed a dozen bills that would have reinstated the death penalty in New York.

He was third person to die by firing squad after the US supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Arkansas has executed 27 prisoners since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Ohio has executed 46 people since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty.